Senior Researcher, Awards - London, United Kingdom - Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC

Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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JOB TITLE:
Senior researcher, Awards

REPORTS TO:
Head of Awards Research, AMS

OFFICE:
London

DEPARTMENT:
AMS, NextGen, FPS

At NextGen, we are building the future of information services: transforming our portfolio of B2B publishing brands into a modern, global information business.

Our business serves professionals across the financial and professional services sector, covering markets such as banking, legal and insurance.

We are a highly diversified business with services that support clients' market intelligence, business development and workflow solutions, and over 70% of our revenue is recurring.

Across NextGen, we have over 600 colleagues located in three main hubs, and customers in over 150 countries.

Our business is transforming as we seek to retain the relevance our brands have within the markets they serve, while also taking advantage of our scale to deliver better results for our customers and shareholders.

This means a laser focus on responding to our clients' needs for specialism, while also building common tools and functions that allow us to better meet customers' needs.

We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial culture - enabling creative, action-oriented, and knowledgeable professionals to do their best work. We also believe in autonomy, accountability, passion, and a sense of humour.

JOB PURPOSE
The senior researcher is responsible for the research that underpins Delinian's awards programmes.

(S)he must be skilled at delivering research projects; driving engagement; handling written submissions; interviewing market executives; working with judging panels; and making decisions around award outcomes.

The senior researcher will be part of NextGen's best-in-class awards research team, which operates across the legal and tax sectors, M&A, banking, capital markets, insurance and energy & infrastructure.

The senior researcher will develop and analyse award submissions, surveys, and other qualitative and quantitative data collection methods; interview industry executives for insights into companies' work; and network and present at events.

(S)he will work with editorial teams to deliver awards programmes that enhance their brands and best serve their markets.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Conducting research on assigned awards programmes, including compiling shortlists and winners
Project managing research programmes to support the delivery of robust and transparent results to deadline
Managing submission documents and entry systems, categories, criteria and methodologies
Soliciting and driving engagement from the market
Interviewing executives and their clients, as well as marketers and business development professionals (by phone and facetoface)
Coordinating with internal research, survey, editorial, commercial, marketing and ops teams on assigned programmes
Producing award writeups and related editorial content
Attending/hosting/presenting award ceremonies
Representing the Group at regional events and in meetings with firms and industry figures

KEY INTERFACES

Daily
Head of awards research

Frequent

Awards editors, brand editors and senior journalists from assigned programmes; Awards product, commercial, marketing and events teams

Ad hoc

Global head of research; Divisional managing director
Market executives lawyers, bankers, brokers, underwriters, professional services advisors etc
Business development, marketers and public relations contacts

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
Essential

Minimum 3 years research experience
Highly organised and cool under pressure
Ability to keep to deadlines, pick things up quickly and work with agility
A great listener and willing learner
Strong written English
A good telephone manner
Basic note taking skills
Ability to work independently
Commercial awareness

Desirable

Direct experience delivering awards processes in the B2B industry
Experience of managing and coordinating external judging panels
Experience in accreditation/benchmarking companies
Writing structured reports and editorial copy
Facetoface and telephone interviewing in a journalistic or other context
Working collaboratively and closely with sales/business development teams
Knowledge of the corporate finance environment in a journalistic/research capacity
Editorial experience
Experience of handling large volumes of data