Junior Research Manager Sprint Platform

Kick-start your career at Blauw, the best research agency in Rotterdam!

Do you want to help brands make better decisions, faster than they are used to? Are you curious, analytical and ready to make an impact for national and international brands from day one?

Blauw is the strategic data, insights and technology partner for brand growth. We bring together reliable research data, our own intelligent technology and the expertise of driven consultants. One of those technologies is the Sprint Platform: the platform that brands use to test products and creations during development, so they can adjust in time. Test more often, know sooner.

As a Junior Research Manager Sprint Platform, you will work in the team that keeps this platform running and makes it sharper every day. You help clients collect feedback on ideas, concepts, packaging, campaigns and brand elements within 24 hours, and you ensure that those results lead to a sound decision. You will learn the trade in practice, discover where your strengths lie and quickly grow in independence.

What will you be doing?

Within the Sprint Platform, you are responsible from A to Z: from sales and setup to interpretation of the results.

• Advising on the setup. You think along with clients about what they want to know and translate that into a research design that truly provides answers. We use AI where possible, but you are the human component that refines and optimises.
• Testing for New Product Development and Creative Testing. You learn what to test in which phase of an innovation or campaign process, and why.
• Helping with interpretation. You analyse quantitative data, place results in context with benchmarks and translate them into clear, applicable conclusions in dashboards and reports.
• Sales and client contact. You build relationships with clients, identify new research questions, communicate proactively and monitor planning and quality, even when things need to move fast.
• Learning and building together. You work closely with experienced Sprint colleagues and with Blauw’s experts in the field of Brand Impact and Brand Development. You contribute to the further development of the platform.

At Blauw, you get the space to take initiative, ask the right questions and make things better. You see the direct effect of your work for clients.

Who are you?

• A curious starter who wants to learn the trade in practice and dares to ask deeper questions.
• Hands-on: you like practical solutions and get things done.
• A passion for marketing, brands and fast, data-driven research.
• Analytical, proactive and a strong communicator: you explain results clearly and feel comfortable in conversation with clients.
• Eager to learn and ambitious, with an interest in how AI makes research better and faster.
• Structured and solution-oriented: when necessary, you see things through until they are right.
• Basic knowledge of quantitative research (for example SPSS or R) is a plus.

What do we offer?

• A dynamic starter position at a leading agency in the heart of Rotterdam, with a starting salary of £ 2,641.
• Personal growth: intensive guidance, learning-on-the-job and access to Blauw’s training programme.
• Working at the intersection of research, technology and AI, with colleagues who want to help move the profession forward.
• Flexibility and autonomy: flexible working hours and room to specialise.
• The chance to work for national and international brands and learn from diverse marketing challenges.
• An inspiring work environment with enthusiastic, ambitious and energetic colleagues: after-work drinks, bootcamps, table football and a modern workplace with a view of the Coolsingel.

Keep growing.

We believe it is important that you continue to develop yourself. Employees are given the space to deepen their knowledge and the freedom to choose their own route to success.

Great group of people.

You work with colleagues who want to move forward and stimulate each other to make things a little better, smarter or easier for our clients and for ourselves.

Best workplace in Rotterdam.

You can use our huge terrace above Stadhuisplein to work, have lunch, drink coffee, consult or exercise with colleagues.

Excellent employment conditions.

• Holidays.
• Mobility scheme.
• Bonus scheme.