Executive, Principal Insight & Research

About WPP Media WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale.

Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working. com . 2112 - Executive, Principal Insight Research About WPP Media WPP Media, part of WPP, is WPP’s global media collective.

In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. com At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other.

In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP WPP Media’s shared core values: Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity. Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust . Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise .

About EssenceMediaCom: A Leading WPP Media Brand EssenceMediacom is a new breed of media agency. Grounded in analytics insights and powered by data technology, we believe in the power of media and creative to drive breakthroughs for the world’s best brands. We help clients understand the modern marketing paradox and discover the breakthroughs brands need to win with their consumers.

We are designed for the new communications economy — built on data technology, built for people algorithms, built around diverse schools of thought, built to test learn at scale, and, crucially, built to evolve. Role Summary and Impact This is an opportunity for someone excited by the media industry and curious about consumer behaviour to join the Research and Insight team of EssenceMediaCom in our central Manchester campus. The Research and Insight team exists to be the voice of the consumer in the agency, collating, curating and sharing game-changing insight with our agency colleagues and clients across EssenceMediacom offices in Manchester and Leeds.

We fulfil this in 4 key areas: Answering specific client questions through bespoke research projects. We are a full-service qualitative and quantitative research team using a range of research techniques. Merging the use of industry standard insight tools with other digitally led and first party data sources.

Combining these makes our understanding of audiences and what makes them “tick” as comprehensive as possible, and also gives us audiences which we can activate immediately. Producing industry leading thought leadership pieces that answer the big and/or pertinent questions and developing new insight products that feed into media planning. In this role you will be working across our client base, steering us towards our goal of delivering “best in class” research and insight, driving income opportunities and supporting the agency to make our understanding of audiences second to no other agency.

00AM. We'll get back to all applicants by Friday 12th June.

Responsibilities

Working with internal teams to develop solutions to insight questions. Answering client questions and feeding the planning process using our range of insight tools. These questions may be around consumer understanding, audience targeting, social media listening, market interrogation, geo insights, culture and trends etc.