OUR PLACEMENTS

Placement summary

We are looking for a talented graduate to join our social intelligence consultancy. The research and insight role represents a great opportunity to develop your business and management skills. You will support our business activities through research (traditional, social media and big data) and provide customer focused, actionable, business critical data and market research.

Job description

Project Description:

We are looking for a talented graduate to join our social intelligence consultancy. The research and insight role represents a great opportunity to develop your business and management skills. You will support our business activities through research (traditional, social media and big data) and provide customer focused, actionable, business critical data and market research. You will be expected to manage research projects, data and insights. We believe you should be given a chance to demonstrate your potential, so we provide you with significant early responsibility. The role would suit a graduate who wants to make a difference and be part of a highly driven team.

Main Tasks:

 Knowledge Management – monitor and develop weekly industry reports and press to capture key insights in social media, big data and data insights.

Project Management – own projects, research social media landscape, use social data and traditional research to conduct market, competitor and organisational research.

Writing Reports - turning research into an engaging and insightful narrative that delivers insight to the highest quality.

Assisting with Marketing and Sales – writing insight articles for blogs and other publications, community management activities on company social profiles.

New Business – exploiting new markets and accounts. Developing leads into opportunities for new work.

Qualifications

Marketing and/or business related degree and relevant experience

Skills / Experience

Strong interest in research, social media, consumer voice and business management

Excellent logic, analytical and interpretation ability

Excellent written and numerical skills

Proactive problem solving mindset

Excellent attention to detail

Excellent communication skills

Ability to network and build strong relationships with a number of stakeholders

Excellent attention to detail

Collaborative working style and effective under pressure

Benefits

As part of the ScotGrad Graduate Placement Programme, the candidate will benefit from support from the ScotGrad team and may have access to training

Additional information

Location: Glasgow

Planned interview date: 09/10/2013

Preferred start date: 13/10/2013

Company information

Disruptive Insight is the social media consultancy of Dr Jillian Ney, the UK’s first Doctor of Social Media. At Disruptive Insight, we provide in-depth, high-quality research, implementation and analysis of social media for brands and organisations looking to capitalise on the business benefits gained from the social intelligence industry. Disruptive Insight is dedicated to educating businesses, business leaders and professionals about the best practices, strategies, techniques and tools required to successfully develop, build, maintain, analyse and enhance social media for business intelligence. We are a new breed of social media consultancy that combines in-depth knowledge of behavioural sciences, the social media landscape and social consumer behaviour to create value for our partners.

Company sector: Other

www.disruptiveinsight.co.uk

This placement may result in a permanent employment afterwards