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We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Why join?

• Make an impact: work directly with major brands across tech and product innovation influencing future strategies, acting as a thought leader for our clients and moving their businesses forward.
• Apply cutting-edge quant methods: We go beyond the basics. From demand space segmentation and MaxDiff to conjoint, behavioural science and theory-led frameworks, you’ll get stuck into exciting approaches that push our thinking (and keep things fresh).
• Work with smart, kind, curious people: We’re proud to be part of a global consultancy, but we’ve kept the feel of a small, collaborative agency. We’ve got each other’s backs, and we’re big on sharing ideas, celebrating wins, and making work feel like a good place to be.
• Accelerate your career: Whether you're a senior research analyst already managing your own projects and ready to step up, or an experienced research manager looking for your next challenge, we’ll help you grow fast.

Join us at PA Consulting and shape the future through insight.

We’re looking for an experienced quantitative insight manager to join our Human Insight & Innovation team in London. If you’re a strategic thinker with strong quant research skills, curious about human behaviour, and passionate about driving real impact for global brands, we’d love to meet you.

• Design and run end-to-end quant research projects - from proposal to debrief.
• Lead and juggle multiple ad-hoc projects: from U&As and concept testing to thought leadership.
• Analyse survey data to generate sharp, strategic insights.
• Manage project teams and mentor junior researchers.
• Present to clients, manage relationships, and keep projects on track.

Flexible working - We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.

What you bring:

• Curiosity and clarity – you love digging into data, but what really excites you is turning it into a story that makes people sit up and listen.
• Confidence in your craft – you’ve run projects before and are comfortable taking the lead, whether solo or with a small team by your side.
• Commercial thinker - you understand what matters to clients and how to focus on the insights that drive real decisions.
• Solid research know-how – you’re confident with core quant methods, and if you’ve used segmentation, MaxDiff, drivers or conjoint, even better.
• Care in the detail and care for the client – you take pride in getting the small things right, and you’re great at building trusted relationships along the way.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

To deliver against PA’s vision, our clients need impactful insight. Our Human Insight & Innovation team has over 20 years’ experience of delivering this, for some of the world’s biggest, most innovative and forward-thinking brands like Meta, WhatsApp, Google, eBay, Diageo, and McDonald’s to name a few.

We’re a capability of 70+ research and insight experts, spread across Qualitative, Quantitative and Agile specialist consumer research teams, and our work is vital in informing and improving design, innovation, and the human experience, for both private and public sector clients.

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family.
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives.
• Annual performance-based bonus.
• PA share ownership.
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn).

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com.