Senior Project Executive - CRE

Overview

In this Senior Project Executive role, you drive the end-to-end delivery of high-quality research projects within the Creative Excellence team. You act as the linchpin between research and delivery, coordinating stakeholders, clients, and multidisciplinary teams to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery with rigorous quality. You will contribute to process improvements and support costing for projects and new briefs, working in a hybrid setup to balance fieldwork and collaboration. This is a client-facing, impact-driven position at scale, focused on complex programmes and continuous innovation.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days annual leave
• pension contribution
• income protection
• life assurance
• health & wellbeing benefits
• professional development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Coordinate end-to-end project delivery with research and delivery teams to meet time, quality, and budget targets
• Support and drive process improvements, including design of smarter, automated workflows
• Manage stakeholder communications and client relationships through regular meetings and proactive knowledge of client business
• Oversee financial health of projects, including cost tracking, risk flagging, and involvement in financial performance reviews
• Support end-to-end costing process for projects and new business briefs
• Collaborate with researchers and operations to plan and manage projects, including large complex programmes (100k+ value)
• Contribute to process development and remote hub utilization to enhance efficiency
• Provide project leadership, ensuring high-quality, error-free outputs and strong ownership of tasks

Key requirements

• Proven quantitative research project management experience in market research
• Eager to learn and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated ownership of tasks and delivery of high-quality work
• Highly organized and able to work under pressure
• Strong attention to detail
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications

• Client-facing communication
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Stakeholder management
• Quantitative research project management in market research
• Experience with online and offline methodologies
• Remote/hybrid collaboration across locations

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