Senior Principal (Qual)

Incite is an award-winning strategic research and planning consultancy. We unlock opportunity by combining inspiring insight with commercial acumen. We are part of Strat7 – a global tech-enabled strategy, insights and analytics group.

Established in 2000, we are hands-on practitioners with background in research and consulting. We offer full-service qual, quant and consultancy. We have a global reach and broad-based expertise in B2C and B2B, covering financial services, tech, consumer goods, retail and a specialist health and pharma team.

Every client challenge is tackled with our consulting approach, meaning we’re method neutral and our solutions are bespoke to the task at hand – whether that’s understanding the future of a category, to finding headroom for growth or making tangible plans for how brands can flourish.

We are looking for a Senior Principal to join our team in London. You will get to work on fabulously diverse, high pace and exciting consumer projects, engaging with a variety of categories such as snacks, drinks, etc.

You will have experience of adding value to individual research projects, making impactful contributions and end-to-end project ownership. You are a can-do and hands-on, with a real desire to learn, and to develop deeper and stronger research and consultancy skills.

The role

As a Principal, you will have a leading role in both the delivery of client projects and the development of client accounts, alongside inspiring and guiding other team members to deliver great work. You will take a strong interest in the wider research and consultancy world, constantly looking to improve our offer and delivery to clients. The role will include:

• Taking a leading role on projects - ensuring you take the appropriate role on each project, allowing room for others to develop and shine whilst ensuring the highest quality outcome for the client
• Involvement at all stages of the project from interrogation of the brief, to design of the solution, analysis and insight generation, creation of impactful outputs and taking part in workshops, debriefs etc
• Leading existing clients’ accounts by managing client’s relationships and developing new business opportunities with these clients
• Responsibility for development of people as part of a project team – giving feedback, identifying opportunities for Associates or less experienced Principals to develop

Skills, knowledge

• Someone who is passionate about the consumer world and who has a real interest in FMCG brands and the challenges they face
• A strategic thinker – we need people who are energised by the commercial implications of the research, not just the research itself
• Excellent communication and story-telling capabilities, both verbal and written
• Ability to build trust and rapport, with the ability to get people talking about anything and everything
• A robust qualitative skill set – comfortable with online and offline qualitative approaches
• Appetite for facilitating workshops with senior stakeholders
• A strong track record of growing accounts over time, through a mix of great work development of strong relationships with your clients
• Strong organisational and project management skills

Working at STRAT7 Incite

Incite working environment is focused on great work and mutual trust. It’s a culture where you’ll be challenged daily, collaborating with some of the industry’s best minds. And because we build flexible teams for each project, you’ll get to work with a diverse range of colleagues, clients and project types.

Benefits include:

• Hybrid working
• 25 days holiday plus UK bank holidays (Christmas closure – 3 days additional to entitlement – discretionary and non-contractual leave)
• Ability to buy up to 3 days holiday.
• Max leave that can be taken in the holiday year is 33 days, when carrying over days or buying holiday (exceptions if it is a sabbatical year).
• Live Event Leave (2 days per annum)
• Wellbeing Leave (2 days per annum)
• Volunteering Leave (x2 days per annum)
• 4-week paid sabbatical after four continuous service on top of 25 days holidays
• A contributory group personal pension scheme, to which we contribute 4% of Qualified Banded earnings to each team member’s gross salary
• A Westfield Health cash plan
• Life assurance scheme at 4 x salary
• Long Term Service Awards
• Charity Donation Matching (up to £100)
• Generous staff ents programme

Recruitment process

The cycle comprehends three interviews where you will be having the opportunity to meet the most of the team and interview them as well. We are here to support you if you need an adjustment during the recruitment process. Just let us when we reach out.

1st Stage – 45 minutes – virtual

2nd Stage –1.5 hour – Task + interview – In the office

3rd Stage – 20 mins informal chat with our MD - Virtual

To start as soon as possible

Disclosure

STRAT7 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds, who share a passion for research. Our commitment to inclusivity is not just about race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one's identity. All of our employee's points of view are key to our success, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility.