How will you use your UK grocery retailing knowledge to drive your career?

We're looking for a research professional to deliver industry-leading insight and opinion.

About the role

Our team are looking for a UK insight analyst with a passion for market research and retail.

You’ll be inquisitive, have an interest in retail, especially FMCG, and want to be an important part of a dynamic and progressive environment, engaging with customers in a rapidly changing, agile retailing world. You’ll be looking for the opportunity to develop your voice and share thoughts that help our customers grow.

This role sits within our Shopper & Away from Home insights team specifically working with our shopper research. The role will have you driving insights and foresights from our long-term shopper tracking study (ShopperVista) as well as adhoc research projects. Through this you will build and share your knowledge of the UK food and consumer goods retailing market.

From our unparalleled industry relationships and access, you will build your network with retailers and suppliers, seeing and understanding first-hand what affects them. The insight analyst role will also work alongside our retail, consumer and eating-out analysts within the wider team, with the opportunity to collaborate across projects.

The responsibilities

Reporting to the Shopper Insight Manager, your responsibilities will include:

• Producing best-in-class insight: You will support & build insights from primary and secondary research and utilise our Retail Analysis team and network of industry contacts.
• Delivering outputs on a variety of shopper trends and industry/macro developments across the UK, providing actionable insight to our members through presentations and on IGD’s ShopperVista web-based platform.
• Travelling around the UK in order to fulfil your research/projects.
• Supporting the creation of news articles and tracking best practice and innovations on the latest retail developments, incorporating your research into IGD reports and presentations.

Supporting our primary research

• Supporting our qualitative and quantitative primary research with British Shoppers, through our ongoing tracking study and through various projects we undertake on an ad hoc basis.
• Working with the wider team to deliver high-quality reports for our customers to showcase our work, and to raise awareness and build the reputation of our UK research programme.
• Supporting customer-specific projects, providing insights that exceed their expectations in terms of quality and depth of insight.

Focus on personal development

• Supporting IGD’s research programme and your own personal development journey. By actively developing an internal & external network and using feedback from colleagues and customers you’ll be able to continually improve IGD online content and the quality of our insights and research.
• Keeping up to date with industry trends in order to develop your personal skills and knowledge base and being proactive about self-development.

What you bring

Essential

• A keen interest in the UK grocery and consumer goods industry
• PowerPoint, Excel, and Word skills, with the ability to turn multiple sources of information into meaningful insights and reporting
• Confident presentation skills, able to engage an audience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to plan and manage your own workload
• A team player with a collaborative mindset who takes pride in maintaining high standards in your own work and meeting deadlines
• Capable of adapting priorities under pressure with a positive approach to change
• A curiosity for learning and sharing your knowledge, with an ability to think creatively and to innovate

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of the UK grocery and consumer goods industry
• An understanding and experience of using different qualitative and quantitative research methodologies
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with large data sets

The rewards

We offer a range of benefits, including a market leading pension, a bonus scheme, the ability to buy and sell annual leave plus a generous medical insurance package

We have a great work-life balance, where you are empowered & trusted to manage your time.

The location

We are operating a hybrid approach to working with a mix of home and office-based working (to be agreed with your line manager). We are based in a very accessible location within the M25, just 20 miles from central London.

More about our people

We’re looking for inspiring professionals; talented people who seek personal and career growth and are ambitious to develop their potential and unlock opportunities for society, for our customers and themselves.

We seek and attract the very best people and create an environment that supports and includes them. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their contribution.

More about IGD

IGD is a truly unique place, we connect and inspire, provoking and leading constructive debate that creates impact. Together we are working to make a tangible difference for Society, Business, and the Individual.

We use in-depth commercial understanding to uncover rich insights and data, leading to action that powers success.

We reinvest profit from our Trading company into delivering Social Impact, through the Charity, aimed at uniting and mobilising our industry around the most crucial issues affecting society and business today.

Join our team to help us make a positive impact and drive change.