Senior Associate, Research & Insight
Global Counsel is a strategic advisory firm that works with clients to navigate the critical area between business, politics and policymaking.
We are seeking an opinion research professional to join GC’s recently founded and growing Research & Insight function. The team uses a range of qualitative (focus groups, depth interviews, etc.) and quantitative (survey) methods to provide clients with a deeper understanding of public, professional, business and stakeholder opinion. Our clients use this understanding to inform their strategies for political and stakeholder engagement, and as the evidence-base for thought-leadership activity.
The Research & Insight team works alongside GC’s sector experts in areas such as health and life sciences, financial services, climate & sustainability, technology, and energy. The successful candidate will work on projects for a range of prestigious international companies, investors and NGOs in these sectors.
The team also plays an important role in deepening colleagues’ understanding of the public opinion environment, producing regular internal updates and thought leadership, involving original and third-party political polling as well as conducting focus groups.
Role
This is a varied role, involving many different aspects of the opinion research and consulting process. We are seeking expertise in primary, rather than secondary research methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple qualitative and quantitative workstreams simultaneously.
- Independent project management of research projects
- Work closely with Research Director in anticipating workload and resourcing needs
- Line management and development of Research Associate/Assistant
- Keep abreast of trends in UK public opinion, acting as ‘go-to’ for internal stakeholders
- Manage research vendors on multiple projects (both qualitative and quantitative)
- Contribute to business development, and the development of proposals, costings and pitches
- Conduct depth interviews and focus groups with stakeholders, industry experts, policymakers and voters
- Design research materials including qualitative discussion guides and survey questionnaires
- Work with clients and internal stakeholders to define research objectives
- Manage and monitor field progress to ensure projects run to time
- Develop recruitment criteria for research participants
- Develop instructions for survey vendors to build crosstabs and topline documents
- Analyse datasets and turn them into charts and graphs for client reports and presentations
- Deliver research findings confidently to clients
Skills and profile
- Minimum 4 years experience in the public opinion research field
- Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
- Demonstrable interest in politics, public policy and current affairs, both from a UK and global perspective
- Past agency experience strongly preferred, including working at a consulting, communications or polling firm
- Strong team player with initiative and a ‘can do’ attitude
- Solid experience of MS Office Suite, especially PowerPoint
- Ability to communicate clearly and professionally with team members, colleagues in the wider business and clients
- Department
- Research and Insight
- Locations
- London

Colleagues
London
Why join
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An opportunity to work with world-class advisers and political experts in a fast-growing firm, alongside a strong professional development program including a personal training budget.
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A competitive salary and bonus structure, a robust benefits package and opportunities to work from our offices across the world.
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A commitment to work-life balance, with flexible working, 25 days holiday allowance plus public holidays, enhanced parental leave, discretionary winter holiday office closures, and sabbaticals.
Our commitment to diversity
We are committed to equal opportunities, respect and wellbeing for all staff and applicants for employment. We are committed to building a team that genuinely reflects the diversity of the places we work. We are committed to achieving a culture where there is regard for all and there is no place for discrimination and harassment of any type.
Our aim is for GC to be a company where all our colleagues have the opportunity to grow, develop, succeed and be their authentic selves whatever their sex, race, colour, class, religion, age, national origin, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, redundancy, leaves of absence, salary and training.
About Global Counsel
Global Counsel brings together a team with diverse experience across the public and private sectors. Since our establishment in 2010 we have developed a wide range of services and capabilities for corporates and investors.
Global Counsel helps companies and investors across sectors to anticipate the ways in which politics, regulation and public policymaking create both risk and opportunity, and to develop and implement strategies to meet these challenges. We provide them with due diligence support to build compelling, evidence-based campaigns to engage in policy debates.
Our work is supported by high quality analytical content and collateral that is politically and economically informed and which builds quickly into executable strategy.
Our team is led by former public policymakers and political advisors with experience at the highest level of government. We have offices in London, Brussels, Washington DC, Singapore and Doha and are supported by a network of partners in other key markets.
Senior Associate, Research & Insight
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