Research Manager (Analytics) Research London

Posted 27 days 19 hours ago by Focaldata Ltd

Permanent
Not Specified
Research Jobs
London, United Kingdom
Job Description

At Focaldata we harness the latest tech to look beyond the numbers to create true insight into the public's thoughts. To do this we have gathered an amazing team of engineers and researchers. We are now looking for a Research Manager to focus predominantly on our analytics capabilities. This role will be key in pushing the boundaries of what we do and how we close the knowledge gap!

What you'll be doing

This role has the opportunity to really propel the analytics capabilities of the team. You will get to lead our industry-leading modelling for a variety of projects across different industries. You will do this by:

  • Owning the analytics workstreams for major research projects including segmentation analysis, factor reduction, multi-level regression modelling.
  • Setting best-practice and standards, processes for analytics including segmentation.
  • Automate common analytical tasks particularly for trackers and long-running client projects.
  • Independently running end-to-end research and insight projects (primarily quant but also qual and mixed methods).
  • Contributing to and owning RFPs and other proposals.

Who you are: skills and experience

Essential

  • 3+ years analytics and/or research experience using survey data.
  • Experience in personally running different types of statistical analyses, including factor reduction techniques, multi-level/mixed-effect regression (linear and logistic at a minimum), and segmentation/cluster analysis.
  • Ability to run exploratory data analysis, enjoys using creative ways of looking for patterns and nuggets hidden in the data.
  • Deep experience working with survey data, including wrangling, merging, cleaning and weighting. Ideal candidate will also have worked with publicly available datasets (e.g., census or other ONS data).
  • Strong proficiency in R or Python for data analysis and data visualisation.

Nice to have

  • The ideal candidate has experience in using both frequentist and Bayesian approaches.
  • Understanding of the full market research project life cycle.

About Focaldata

At Focaldata, we're building a new kind of tech-enabled research agency - that offers clients deep insight at the speed of software. You'll get the opportunity to work alongside a highly collaborative team of researchers, client leads, engineers, data scientists and product specialists. We do impactful work with leading organisations, from brands like New Balance to campaign groups like Hope not Hate and non-profits like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Join us.

Focaldata is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We believe in the value of a diverse and inclusive workforce for our business, team and customers. We encourage all applications regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage, pregnancy, maternity, race or nationality, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.