Trainee Research Executive

Trainee Research Executive page is loaded Trainee Research Executive Apply locations London, Grays Inn Road time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: September 7, 2025 (30+ days left to apply) job requisition id R096420

Media help partners understand the changing advertising landscape. Specialising in audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media, their global coverage and local expertise enable better understanding of media audiences and their relationships with brands.

Kantar Media is a wholly owned but operationally independent part of the Kantar Group.

Job Details

As people increasingly move across channels and platforms, Kantar Media's data and audience measurement, targeting, analytics and advertising intelligence services unlock insights to inform powerful decision-making.

Working with panel and first-party data in over 80 countries, we have the world's fastest growing cross-media measurement footprint, underpinned by versatility, scale, technology and expertise, to drive long-term business growth for our clients and partners.

Job Title: Trainee Operations Executive (Production)

Location: London

Work pattern: Full time/Permanent/Hybrid working

This is a full-time permanent position, based in our London office. We operate in a hybrid capacity and require 2 days in the office. All applicants must have the legal right to live and work in the UK.

Role Description:

Leading the way in the exciting world of media research, we provide the most accurate and comprehensive intelligence on media consumption, performance and value. At Kantar Media we power media choices. Our insight, expertise, and best in class data and services help clients to measure, monitor and select the most effective media.

Kantar Media is offering an exciting opportunity in their TGI team to start a career in Market Research by gaining technical expertise and experience of working with data. The role comes with a clear career path supported by relevant training and development.

Key Responsibilities

• Questionnaire design
• Fieldwork management
• Liaising with client success team
• Processing data using bespoke software
• Data cleaning through scripting
• Checking and investigating data issues
• Scripting of online questionnaires
• Creation of the final deliverables
• Project management of the surveys, including dealing with various stakeholders

Skills & Experience

• Educated to degree level in any discipline (preferred 2:1 minimum, supported by strong A-levels) or equivalent experience
• Excellent logical thinking - ability to understand complex concepts, and draw conclusions by analysing available information
• Ability to understand technology, and to learn how systems work - the team use a variety of tools built to support the highly engineered data building process
• Intermediate Excel skills (importing and formatting data, lookups, pivot tables, functions, conditional logic)
• Interest in working with data
• Knowledge in coding and software programming desirable
• Knowledge of foreign languages desirable (i.e. French, German, Spanish)

Our offer

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear, and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion, and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that's out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted, and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration. We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate because of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

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Country

United Kingdom

Why join Kantar?

We pride ourselves on understanding people, and what makes us think and act the way we do.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We're dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you're not an exact match, we'd love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

About Us KANTAR

Kantar is the world's leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar's 25000 people help the world's leading organisations succeed and grow.

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