Research Manager

Summary

Join Infopro Digital's Barbour ABI team as a Research Manager! This permanent, remote UK-based role involves collaborating with researchers to produce and publish market reports for the construction industry. Key responsibilities include report planning, author coordination, data analysis, editing, and marketing content creation. You'll need strong research, data analysis, and writing skills, along with project management experience. A degree in a relevant field is required. Benefits include a 3 pm Friday finish, 25-30 days of holiday, a birthday day off, extra holiday purchase options, volunteering days, pension, life assurance, and a great company culture with professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Experience in research to interrogate and analyse data and statistics, especially company data and official statistics and reports, such as economic and industry output data from the Office for National Statistics
• Strong data analysis skills, and a questioning mindset with the ability to ‘find the story’ in the data
• Project management, including managing multiple projects
• Confident in using Microsoft Excel, such as pivot tables and graphs
• First-class report writing and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• A Degree in a subject such as economics, social sciences, marketing, business and humanities. Other subjects will be considered

Responsibilities

• Work with the Head of Content to plan the report schedule
• Co-ordinate report production with a set of specialist authors, including briefing, managing contracts, invoicing and keeping production on track
• Work with our analysts to extract data to use in reports
• Carry out desk research, occasional interviews and analysis to support the report authors. You will use these primary and secondary sources to build a view of the market
• Edit and proof-read reports to ensure they meet our high standards in terms of accuracy, written English and presentation
• Create content for marketing materials related to the report, including web pages, press releases, video commentary, and articles for journals and blog posts
• As well as editing reports, you will sometimes write reports yourself
• Build your own profile within the subject area through attending conferences and exhibitions, and through social media

Preferred Qualifications

• Competent in carrying out qualitative research interviews
• Experience of managing others, ideally freelance researchers
• Experience in trends analysis and market forecasting
• Expertise in social media
• Knowledge of the built environment, including key issues, products, companies, and activities
• Interest in sustainability, new technologies, supply chains, manufacturing processes, the economy and consumer
• Membership of the Market Research Society

Benefits

• 3pm finish on a Friday
• Remote role in the UK
• 25 to 30 days holiday
• Day off for your birthday
• Purchase extra holidays
• Volunteering days
• Pension and Life Assurance
• Great company culture that offers professional development, training and regular social events