Junior Research & Insights Executive (Intership)

The role

We’re a global creative agency, with more than 1000 people in 16 offices around the world, 150+ here in our Milan’s office. We deliver world-class creative campaigns and strategies based on social insights, for best-in-class brands.

At We Are Social we believe that teamwork and respect for everyone’s contribution can lead to great results. We believe that flexibility and the ability to adapt to changes by taking advantage of opportunities is a fundamental characteristic for achieving success. And we also believe that always looking for new challenges and going beyond what is due is the right attitude to always do better.

Within the broader strategic department, the resource will be part of the Research & Insight team, which is responsible, upstream, for studying the digital, social, and cultural landscape in which our creative works come to life, and downstream, for the analysis, evaluation, and validation of the performance of our creative projects, both from a qualitative and quantitative point of view.

Purpose of the Role

Research & Insight Executives are responsible for carrying out the operational activities of the team. Once they have received instructions, guidelines, and instructions, they are able to carry out their tasks independently and deliver the work for review by seniors.

As Research Executives, you’ll be responsible for:

– Understand, manipulate and clean datasets (experience with Excel/Sheets is required).

– Know the specific metrics and data of the platforms (e.g. Facebook Insights) and stay up to date on their developments

– Analyze the conversation around a topic, identifying the main themes of discussion.

– Analytical ability to read data, identifying patterns and qualitative aspects

– Understand research objectives and related business objectives

-Ability to effectively present and explain the results, even visually (PPT/Keynote/Slides).

Requirements

– Passion for the digital world and familiarity with the main social networks – Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube

– Good knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint (or similar)

– Curiosity and observation skills

– Precision and ability to analyze data

– Ability to work well in a team

– Knowledge of Italian and English

– Knowledge of advanced data manipulation tools (e.g. Alteryx or Knime) will be considered a plus

– Knowledge of social listening tools (e.g. Brandwatch or Meltwater) will be considered a plus

– Knowledge of data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI or Lookerstudio) will be considered a plus

Benefits

• Career Path Design – quarterly reviews and annual evaluations.
• WAS Passport – opportunity to work for two weeks a year in any of our network offices.
• Bottom Up & Top Down professional training.
• Mental Health, CSR, and Diversity & Inclusion activities.
• Smart working up to 2 days a week.
• You will experience a young, creative, and dynamic environment with an average age of 30.

We Are Social is an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
We promote the inclusion and work integration of people belonging to protected categories – as regulated by Law 68/99. This job opportunity is addressed to both sexes, in accordance with Laws 903/77.