Research Associate

Overview

THE FIRM

Montagu Evans is an independent, market leading property consultancy. Headquartered in London with offices in Scotland and Manchester. Our work encompasses planning and development, specialist valuations and transactions across the United Kingdom.

We're a group of people that are excellent individually and exceptional together. We're people that care about people, not just bricks and mortar. We care about our legacy, we create spaces that people use to live, work, communicate and connect.

We're a partnership and the people who run the business are empowered to create their own teams to exceed our client's requests. This highly flexible and collaborative approach, tailoring the talent to the complexity of the work, has enabled us to develop an exceptional business that has spanned nearly a century.

We encourage an honest and straight forward approach to our work and relationships. We embrace individuality, whilst relying on working together and never accepting the status quo.

We give everyone the opportunity to be the best version of themselves. We trust and support each other. We recognise that our people are the heart of our success and only by identifying, supporting and promoting them will we be able to provide continued outstanding client service.

Together we are Montagu Evans.

Montagu Evans is committed to maintaining an inclusive work environment. One that embraces all everyone. Read more here

THE TEAM

This role is to sit within the Research & Insight team, working closely with Jon Neale, who leads the team. It provides market-leading research, analysis and data to the business and its clients. The topic matter can range from the state of play in individual property markets and the demographics of particular places to the impact of global megatrends and economics on the sectors we work in. We aim to provide our clients and the wider market with original insight that helps guide and shape business decisions and draws attention to Montagu Evans' offer, as well as providing bespoke, paid-for research and analysis on specific topics.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Montagu Evans is seeking a creative and insightful research associate to lead the production of our regular outputs and manage ongoing client projects. The successful candidate would work with the head of research on devising and executing our research programme, and would contribute to more high-profile, one-off papers. There would be opportunities to present both internally and externally and become more involved in client-facing activities.

The role will be based within our growing Strategic Advisory team, which over the last 12 months has delivered projects for a wide range of clients including Homes England, Network Rail, Defence Infrastructure Organisation, Government Property Agency, LendLease, The Crown Estate, British Land, and Buckinghamshire Council. The role will be highly visible within the firm and offers excellent opportunities for career development and progression and would involve some management responsibility.

Responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, ACCOUNTABILITIES

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Managing and helping to define the research & insight programme; writing our regular outputs and contributing to one-off projects
• Managing Montagu Evans' market data;managing and interrogating third party datasets and maintaining our suite of economic and market slides
• Responding to client requests and authoring client reports where appropriate;
• Presenting to clients and attending meetings if required;
• Managing a research analyst

Wider responsibilities include:

• Responding to requests from the business for support;
• Liasing with the economics & demographics team;
• Developing new ways to visualise data and explain trends;
• Representing research & insight within the firm

Qualifications

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATION

The successful candidate should have:

• A degree, preferably in a relevant subject (such as Economics, Geography, Real Estate or Planning)
• At least 5-6 years' experience within the research team of a property consultancy or investor, or similar role;
• Excellent analytical, report writing and presentational skills, as well as strong commercial awareness and the ability to work to challenging deadlines
• A knowledge of, or interest in, the UK's commercial and residential property market, UK's urban geography and urban economics more generally
• Good presentation and communication skills

Knowledge and experience of the following will be advantageous:

• A variety of commercial and residential property markets;
• Microsoft Excel (intermediate to advanced is essential)
• GIS (QGIS preferred) and spatial data analysis skills (training can be provided)
• Statistical languages such as R or Python (not essential)