Insights Executive 

M·E·L Research is a social research agency, with expertise in research, evaluation and behavioural insights. With 40 years’ experience in working for the UK’s public services, we have a very strong focus on what we want to achieve as a business.

We believe that all businesses have a duty to be socially responsible to re-invest in society, be active contributors to the local community, and to minimise their environmental impacts. We push for social value – in why we work, how we work and who we work with. Click here to see our recently published Social Value report.

You can read more about what it is like to work at M·E·L Research here.

Our history and journey

Formed in 1985, M·E·L Research has grown steadily to a core in-house team of over 30 research and evaluation staff, plus many more telephone interviewers and external CAPI interviewers and support staff. We are on an exciting growth journey, expanding our research and insights capabilities, enhancing our evaluation services, and embedding our data visualisation tools alongside recognised quality accreditations.  

Joining M·E·L Research means becoming part of a confident and forward-looking company, ambitious about the future and committed to broadening the expertise and solutions we offer our clients. At the heart of everything we do is our social purpose: to make a meaningful and lasting difference to society, to the communities we serve, and to our own people.

Why join the M·E·L Research team?

M·E·L Research is seeking to appoint an Insights Executive to support the design, delivery, analysis and reporting of a wide range of quantitative and qualitative social research projects.

This is a deliberately broad and developmental role, suited to an early-career researcher, graduate, or someone with transferable project or contract management experience who is keen to build a career in social research. The successful candidate will receive substantial on-the-job training while contributing meaningfully to the successful delivery of research projects.

Benefits

Full details on what it is like to work for M·E·L Research can be found here.  

We offer employees a wide range of generous benefits including:  

• Flexible working arrangements based around the needs of the employee (such as family commitments/needs/childcare).  We are a very family-orientated business and encourage flexible hours and homeworking.  
• Provision of employer contributions to Royal London personal pension scheme starting from a 4% contribution and rising to 8% (subject to employee contributions that meet the auto-enrolment requirements)  
• In addition, paid annual leave allowance of 33 days per annum, including bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time hours), and your birthday  
• 2 paid volunteer days per year  
• Life assurance policy at 3x basic annual salary  
• Health cashback medical care scheme and employee benefits scheme inc. retail discounts  
• Eligibility for annual company profit and performance bonus scheme dependent on company performance  
• Annual pay reviews and cost-of-living pay increases (also subject to the company’s financial performance).  

Job description

Post: Insights Executive  

Job Location: UK-based position. Mainly remote but will be required to work in the office occasionally .

Reporting to: Research Manager/Senior Research Executive 

Salary Range: £26,500-£28,860 depending on experience/location (37.5 Hours per week) plus potential profit bonus, pension and other benefits   

Job summary 

This role may suit:

• An Early Career Researcher (e.g. Junior Research Executive / Research Executive) with an existing grounding in research design and delivery
• A graduate with knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods and demonstrable experience of managing competing demands
• An individual with transferable project or contract management skills who is motivated to apply these within a social research environment.

Full job specification

For the full job specification, please see the Insights Executive briefing pack.

Equal opportunities 

M·E·L Research is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and value the diverse perspectives this brings to our work.

Applications close March 17th 2026.

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