Be honest. Most of your work probably sat in a folder after the final debrief. That’s not a knock on the work, it’s just how consulting usually goes: you deliver, you leave, and the client’s left to figure out the “now what.”

This role exists to fix that gap.

Our client is a fast-growing strategy and insight consultancy, working with some of the world’s biggest brands. They’re deliberately building something rare in this industry: a function whose whole job is making sure the strategic thinking actually lands, not just gets delivered.

You’ll own a brand new function, sitting underneath everything else the business does.

That means:

• Diagnosing where a client’s organisation is stuck, and deciding what to embed first
• Turning strategy and frameworks into tools, dashboards, workshops and coaching people genuinely use
• Building content (films, training, workshops) that makes the work stick, not just documents it
• Working the whole client org, from the leadership team down to the people using the tools daily
• Shaping what “capability” even means for a consultancy in an AI-driven world

You’ve probably worked both sides of this: consultancy or innovation agency, and client-side too. You’ve felt the frustration of handing over great strategic work and watching it stall. You’ve got real opinions on why that happens, and what actually gets people to change how they work.

You might come from a client-side capability or insight team, or from an innovation consultancy. What matters more than the CV line is this: have you actually driven transformation, or just delivered training? If it’s the latter, this probably isn’t your role.

Our client is a well-established broadcaster with a strong presence across linear TV and a growing non-linear footprint (streaming, AVOD, FAST). Audience data drives real decisions here, not just reports nobody reads.

You’ll own the daily, weekly and monthly reporting that tells the business how channels are performing. You’ll dig into BARB data using Advantage or TechEdge, track the competitive landscape, and work closely with the wider team to answer the questions that come up when someone asks “why did that show do better than expected?” There’s no one to manage, and that’s deliberate. This is a role built for someone who wants to get properly good at the craft first.

Central London office, two days in.

You’ve got at least two years’ research experience at a broadcaster, or you’ve come from an agency and worked closely enough with broadcast clients to understand the world. You know your way around Advantage or TechEdge. You’re comfortable with Excel (there’s a practical test at second stage, so come ready).

You’re not looking for a title bump every six months. You want to build depth, learn from people who’ve been doing this a long time, and know that the room to grow is there when you’re ready for it.

This role would suit someone with 1–3 years’ experience in research or analyst roles, particularly within:

Market intelligence
Desk research
Economic or labour market research
Policy or public sector research
Research analyst roles
Unlike many research roles, the work produced here has real-world impact — reports are regularly relied upon in employment tribunals, High Court cases and major public inquiries.

Working as part of a small and highly analytical research team, you will contribute to the production of labour market assessments and employment reports used in legal proceedings.

Your responsibilities will include:

Conducting labour market and salary research using a range of public and proprietary sources
Analysing salary surveys, pay scales and employment data across different occupations and sectors
Producing structured research notes, tables and written analysis for inclusion in expert reports
Identifying and validating reliable sources and statistics relevant to specific cases
Supporting research used in employment tribunal cases and wider legal proceedings
Conducting primary research, including questionnaires or contacting organisations for information
Using Excel to analyse and present salary and employment data clearly
Contributing to the development and maintenance of the organisation’s research library
The role combines analytical desk research, data interpretation and structured written reporting.

This role would suit someone who enjoys structured research and evidence-based analysis.

Ideal candidates will have:

1–3 years’ experience in a research or analyst role
Strong desk research and information gathering skills
The ability to analyse data and draw logical conclusions
Excellent written communication skills
High levels of attention to detail and accuracy
Confidence using Excel to analyse and present data
Interest in labour markets, employment trends or economic research
Experience with salary benchmarking, labour market data, policy research or economic datasets would be beneficial but is not essential.

Research that directly influences legal decisions
Exposure to employment law, labour markets and economic analysis
Work on high-profile cases and major public inquiries
Join a small, intellectually rigorous research team
Develop deep expertise in labour market and salary analysis
Location

The role is based in Greenwich, London, and candidates should be comfortable working in the office full-time initially.

Next Steps

If you enjoy digging into data, uncovering reliable evidence and producing structured research outputs, this role offers a unique opportunity to apply those skills in a highly impactful environment. Please apply to this advert.

Nicholson Glover is a specialist recruitment consultancy founded in 2002. We place mid-to-senior professionals in insight, strategy, data, analytics, and product roles — with agencies, consultancies, and global brands across the UK and internationally. Speak to us: francis@nicholsonglover.co.uk

🔹 A full shopper research programme — methodology through to delivery, your call

🔹 Thought-leading reports and insight that actually move client thinking

🔹 Senior client relationships — advisory boards, webinars, deep dives

🔹 A blend of quant, qual and emerging AI-driven approaches

🔹 Line management of a Shopper Analyst — genuine people leadership

✅ Senior-level insight or research experience with real industry credibility

✅ Retailer or client-side experience (think Tesco, Waitrose, or similar) — highly desirable

✅ A methodology-led mindset — social listening, communities, conjoint, and beyond

✅ Confidence in the data yourself, not just presenting someone else’s analysis

✅ Storytelling that shapes opinion, not just reports it

✅ Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills

💰 Up to £67,000 basic

🚗 £5,000 car allowance (cash option available)

📈 12.5% pension (5% employee contribution)

🏡 Hybrid — 2 days/week in the office

🌴 28 days annual leave + bank holidays, with holiday flex

⏰ Early finish Fridays

🩺 Private medical insurance, life assurance and a genuine wellbeing offering

📚 Support for professional qualifications and continued learning

Sound like your next move?

If you’re ready to trade “delivering insight” for shaping the agenda, I’d love a confidential conversation .

– Design and deliver quantitative research — surveys and analysis that shape client strategy — for clients at the frontier of technology and beyond

– Turn research findings into clear, actionable recommendations for senior client stakeholders

– BUILD and Use AI tools to speed up and sharpen analysis, and build on that experience to contribute to the team’s internal AI products (including podcast and newsletter tools)

– Review and sense-check AI-generated (“vibe-coded”) outputs with a critical, analytical eye

– Flex into wider comms, policy or research work as needed

**Recent examples of the kind of work you’d be doing:**

– Helping a research organisation understand what drives its reputation in AI search

– Helping a large tech company navigate a strategic governance decision

– Mapping the media conversation around a tech client’s highest-priority issue

– Helping an investor understand its positioning in the market

– Strong quantitative research experience — comfortable with survey design, data analysis and turning findings into strategic recommendations

– A decent working understanding of communications and policy, so you can operate credibly with clients and colleagues

– Comfortable writing code and reviewing others’ code (R, SPSS or Python backgrounds all welcome) — not a software engineer, but genuine coding literacy is expected

– Corporate research agency experience is a plus but not essential — we’re equally open to backgrounds in management consulting or in-house corporate insight teams

– Genuine curiosity about AI tools, and the judgement to use them critically rather than blindly

– Employee ownership — everyone shares in the firm’s success

– A twice-yearly bonus based on company and individual performance

– Private healthcare and dedicated mental health support

– 26 days’ holiday plus public holidays

– Visa sponsorship available for the right candidate

– Hybrid working, three days a week in the London office

We know profiles like this rarely tick every box on paper. If you’re excited by the role and meet most of what’s above, we’d love to hear from you — get in touch confidentially to find out more, including the client’s identity and full compensation details.

Nicholson Glover is a specialist recruitment consultancy founded in 2002. We focus exclusively on four disciplines: Customer Research & Insight, Strategy & Innovation, Data, Analytics & AI, and Product & Technology — placing mid-to-senior professionals with agencies, consultancies, corporate teams, and venture-backed businesses. Speak to us: francis@nicholsonglover.co.uk

This is a rare shot at real ownership. You won’t be managing a queue of requests. You’ll be setting the insights agenda for two of the most ambitious categories inside a global fashion business, and the business is genuinely ready to listen.

Our client is a global premium lifestyle brand with a well-regarded, lean CMI function that punches well above its size. They’re mid-transformation, building segmentation and path-to-purchase foundations from the ground up, and looking for someone to help shape what comes next.

You’ll own insight strategy for two global fast-growing categories, working closely with brand, marketing and merchandising teams, and regional CMOs, without a regional CMI team to lean on. Expect to get properly hands-on: briefing agencies, reworking data tables, running your own analysis, and turning all of it into sharp, senior-ready stories. You’ll influence brand positioning and campaign thinking, not just report on it.

You’re commercially minded, hungry, and genuinely energised by a lean, fast-moving environment. You don’t wait to be asked. You spot the gap and go after it. You’re just as comfortable in a data table as you are in a room full of senior stakeholders, and you know how to translate one into the other. Background matters less than mindset here: what counts is curiosity, pace, and the confidence to push back when it’s needed.

Demand is outpacing what the current partnership can absorb. Our client is growing its leadership team deliberately — and only with people who can lead senior client relationships from day one. This is a hands-on, senior role, not a management layer.

— Strategic authority. 15+ years in research consultancy, management consulting or design. Proven at translating customer insight into commercially actionable strategy. Confident at SVP and C-suite level.

— A commercial track record. £1m+ revenue and £0.5m+ PBT, consistently delivered. A client portfolio you’ve grown. Accounts you can bring.

— The right mindset. Entrepreneurial. Direct. Invested in the work and the business, not just your own contribution.

The package

Two routes to Partner equity, including day-one ownership options. Full details on application.

📍 London | Hybrid | Partner / Senior Partner level

Nicholson Glover is a specialist recruitment consultancy founded in 2002. We focus exclusively on four disciplines: Customer Research & Insight, Strategy & Innovation, Data, Analytics & AI, and Product & Technology — placing mid-to-senior professionals with agencies, consultancies, corporate teams, and venture-backed businesses. Speak to us: francis@nicholsonglover.co.uk

This is a hands-on, technically demanding role. The core of the job is a large-scale, pan-European demographic data exercise, run twice a year, tracking gender representation across investment roles at a substantial number of member firms across multiple European markets. You will:

• Own data collection end-to-end, including web scraping of LinkedIn and other publicly available sources using Python (or equivalent)
• Build and maintain reproducible data pipelines that ensure consistency and quality across research cycles
• Merge, clean and manipulate complex, multi-source datasets to produce reliable, longitudinal outputs
• Develop and maintain Excel-based benchmarking tools used directly by member firms
• Project manage research delivery, coordinating with international committees, trade associations, and academic partners
• Produce analysis and contribute to report writing, working with an external agency on final production
• Support the wider team with data requests and presentations across the programme of work
• Identify opportunities to improve research efficiency through automation, standardisation, and AI tools

Essential:

• Proficiency in Python (or equivalent) for web scraping, data cleaning, analysis and automation — professional-grade experience, not just coursework
• A track record of building reproducible, systematic data pipelines — not just ad hoc scripts
• Strong data merging and manipulation skills across large, complex datasets from multiple sources
• Advanced Excel — complex data tables, quality assurance processes, and stakeholder-facing analytical outputs
• A genuine quality-control mindset and rigorous attention to detail with data
• End-to-end project management experience on complex, multi-stakeholder data or research projects
• Confident communicator, able to engage professionally with senior stakeholders, academic partners, and international committees
• Ability to work independently and take ownership without a technical line manager
• Genuine interest in gender diversity, DE&I, or social impact — this matters to my client

Desirable:

• Experience with data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau
• Exposure to AI or automation tools applied to data or research workflows
• Background in or knowledge of alternative asset management or financial services
• Experience with pan-European data collection or GDPR compliance in a data context

• Real impact — the data you produce informs policy conversations, is used by member firms to benchmark themselves, and directly influences how the industry thinks about gender diversity
• Unique work — my client is one of a very small number of organisations collecting gender representation data at this level of granularity across European markets
• Intellectual variety — beyond the flagship annual report, you will contribute to international research projects and academic collaborations
• Technical autonomy — you will own the technical stack and have the freedom to improve and evolve how the team works
• A high-calibre team and network — collaborating with partners at leading academic institutions and major investment firms across Europe
• Permanent role with strong benefits including generous holiday, Christmas closure, and pension contribution
• Hybrid working from a central London office, with genuine flexibility

Location: Central London — 3 days in office per week, with flexibility

Contract: Permanent, full-time

Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

Start date: As soon as possible — my client is looking to move quickly

Notice period: My client needs someone available by early August. Please only apply if you are on 4 weeks’ notice or less.

Nicholson Glover is a specialist recruitment consultancy founded in 2002. We focus exclusively on four disciplines: Customer Research & Insight, Strategy & Innovation, Data, Analytics & AI, and Product & Technology — placing mid-to-senior professionals with agencies, consultancies, corporate teams, and venture-backed businesses. Speak to us: francis@nicholsonglover.co.uk

Our client is a small, high-performance insight and strategy agency in London. The kind of place where quant doesn’t sit in a silo. They’re a method-agnostic agency: strategists, researchers, data scientists, ethnographers, and designers all under one roof.

Roughly 80% of what they do is strategic. The other 20% still feeds something bigger. Brand architecture, strategic positioning, concept development. The work is genuinely interesting. The clients are household names. And the team is tight, smart, and moving fast.

You’ll support the Head of Quant and senior team across a portfolio of about three projects at a time.

All ad hoc, all different. That means:

• Running and checking data in Q/SPSS
• Managing supplier relationships and fieldwork quotas
• Supporting analysis, charting, and topline reporting
• Helping coordinate timelines, stakeholders, and client comms
• Contributing to brainstorms and attending client meetings

No two projects are the same. There are no templates.

You’ve got around 2–3 years of quant consumer research experience, ideally from a rigorous agency background. You know your way around fieldwork, data checking, and DP specs. You’re not waiting to be told what to do, but you’re also honest about where you still have room to grow.

You’re comfortable in a fast-paced environment where the expectation is high and the support is real. You want variety over repetition, and you’d rather work on something strategic than process the same tracker every quarter.

You’re not the right fit if you’re looking for a highly structured environment, or if your quant experience is mostly light-touch or not in a commercial sector.

• £32,000–£36,000 base
• Profit-share scheme
• 25 days holiday
• Hybrid working
• Health insurance
• Enhanced parental leave
• Wellbeing support

Most research roles ask you to deliver findings. This one asks you to change outcomes.

My client is a leading international strategic research and advisory consultancy — trusted by corporations, law firms, and governments to provide the research and intelligence that shapes high-stakes campaigns and decisions. Their London research team is small, senior, and embedded directly in the heart of the business. They’re looking for someone to join it.

You’ll own complex, multi-method research projects end to end — from design and fieldwork management through analysis and client delivery. The portfolio spans regulatory and lobbying campaigns, litigation and dispute resolution, corporate and sovereign reputation, defence and security, and energy and infrastructure. No trackers. No repeat briefs. Every project is bespoke, often international, and built around a specific client objective.

You’ll manage senior client relationships independently, contribute to pitches, and help shape how the team uses AI to work smarter — practically, not theoretically.

• 6–8+ years in political, strategic, or market research
• Strong quant instincts: survey design, sampling, regression, max diff — and the ability to tell the story in the data
• Comfortable in qual too: moderation, depths, analysis
• Commercially minded and consultative — you solve client problems, not just answer research questions
• Credible with senior stakeholders and curious about the political and business world your clients operate in

Background is less important than mindset. Polling firm, strategic comms, large agency — my client is open, provided you think like a consultant and not just a researcher.

The work is interesting, often sensitive, and genuinely international. You’ll sit alongside campaigns and advisory colleagues on one floor in central London — close to the work, close to the clients, and with real visibility of how research shapes strategic outcomes.

Five days in the office (some practical flexibility of course). Some international travel. Exceptional salary, with genuine flexibility for the right candidate.

Interested? Get in touch or send me your CV. And if this isn’t right for you but you know someone it might suit, I’d welcome an introduction.

Nicholson Glover is a specialist recruitment consultancy founded in 2002. We focus exclusively on four disciplines: Customer Research & Insight, Strategy & Innovation, Data, Analytics & AI, and Product & Technology — placing mid-to-senior professionals with agencies, consultancies, corporate teams, and venture-backed businesses. Speak to us: francis@nicholsonglover.co.uk