The Role

Overview
Core Research. Action, powered by insight.
Our purpose at Core Research is to understand and deliver insight on people’s needs, motivations and behaviours to help clients make decisions that impact their business or organisation. We carry out hundreds of projects each year to get under the skin of why people behave the way they do and understand what motivates and shapes the choices they make. We work with some of the best companies in Ireland and around the world, which means tackling challenging, exciting, and strategic briefs every week.
The Role:
We are looking for an ambitious, passionate, and naturally curious person to join our team as a Market Research Manager / Insights Manager level. We want a person who is interested in understanding people – their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. You will be part of a dynamic and experienced team of insight professionals who use insight to drive growth across a wide range of marketing and commercial challenges.
Training and continuous learning is provided along with career development paths and processes for ensuring you learn and develop.
What you will do at Core Research:

• Project manage through all stages of projects.
• Design and implement methodologies to improve client outcomes.
• Design questionnaires and discussion guides.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with new and existing clients.
• Work with our suppliers.
• Moderate qualitative projects – traditional and innovative focus groups, online communities, in-depth interviews etc.
• Quality control at all stages of the market research project.
• Analysis – qualitative and quantitative.
• Debrief insights to clients and stakeholders.
• Cultivate and develop new business opportunities.
• Collaborate on planning, writing, and winning new business proposals.

Your profile

• 2 to 5 years’ experience in market research, insight, planning or similar, either agency or client side.
• Hands on market research experience is essential.
• Strong end to end project management experience across qualitative and quantitative research projects.
• Deep understanding of matching research methodologies to client challenges
• Natural curiosity in understanding people, how they think and what motivates them.
• Strong track record in developing and landing actionable insights for client’s organisation.
• Strong work ethic and willingness to learn.
• Commercial acumen.
• The skill of articulating ideas clearly and effectively and can actively listen and take on board ideas of others.
• Pride in your attention to detail.
• Numeracy and comfort with data.
• A desire to take the initiative and take responsibility to see tasks through to completion.
• Ability to work well within teams.
• Capability of multitasking and dealing with numerous projects and timelines

Why us?

• Flexible and hybrid working
• 24/7 access to professional development through Linked In Learning along with career progression and mentoring
• The opportunity to work across a huge range of clients within so many different categories from sport, retail, food and drink, to alcohol, insurance, banking and so much more
• 21 days annual leave plus a day off on your birthday, company closure days at Christmas and early finish on bank holiday Fridays
• A company culture that promotes work-life balance
• Family-focused benefits including paid maternity and paternity leave as well as maternity phase back program, fertility treatment supports and paid pregnancy loss leave
• Access to mental health and well-being programs including paid health insurance for you and your dependents under 18
• Professional financial advice; employer contributory pension and life assurance
• Make a difference by joining our D&I, CSR, Green, Social or Great Place to Work committees; you’ll get an extra days leave for your efforts.
• And lots more …

OUR COMMITMENTS
Our industry relies on creativity and innovation – these are skills that are not bound by gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, membership of the Traveller community, marital or family status, disability, age, socio-economic background, or any other attributes. Core is committed to diversity in its workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to all applicants. If you need reasonable accommodation for any reason at any part of the interview process, please contact us and let us know the nature of your request and we will do our best to help.

Salary Range

€33,000 - €44,000 DOE

About us

Core is Ireland's largest marketing communications company with over 300 people working across the key areas of marketing communications - research, data science, strategy, planning, creative development and implementation. We are now a collective of nine practices, working towards a single purpose - to expand the possibilities of what brands can achieve. At Core, we believe that change can move us forward and compel us towards new possibilities. Our wonderful people are at the centre of our success. It is essential that we keep building a high-trust working environment that supports our people and enables them to flourish. There is no magic formula for becoming a great place to work. Instead, it involves working together, through constant change, to match the personal dreams and ambitions of our people with the aspirations of the organisation.
Over the years, we have cemented our position as a great place to work, time and time again. Core was voted Agency Network of the Year for 2024. This year, we were again voted as one of Irelands Best Workplaces by the Great Place to Work Institute for the 15th year, alongside being awarded a Best Workplace for Health and Wellbeing, and a Best Workplace for Women in 2024.