Research Associate

Overview

The Firm

Montagu Evans is a UK property consultancy that helps clients unlock value from complexity, because that’s where the most meaningful opportunities live. 

Our purpose is to bring clarity, creativity, and conviction to the complex. We are experts who collaborate to create value, not just preserve it and our team is built for impact, not oversight.

We specialise in high-value, complex assets across the property lifecycle, where political, technical or commercial challenges demand a joined-up approach.

The Team/Department

This role is to sit within Research & Insight, working closely with Jon Neale, who leads the team. It provides market-leading research, analysis and data to the business and its clients. The topic matter can range from the data-driven analysis of individual property markets or the demographics of particular places to the impact of global megatrends and economics on the sectors we work in. We aim to provide our stakeholders, clients and the wider market with original insight that helps guide and shape business decisions and draws attention to Montagu Evans’ offer, as well as providing bespoke, paid-for research and analysis on specific topics.

Role Overview

Montagu Evans is seeking a creative and insightful research associate to lead the production of our regular outputs across key property sectors. The successful candidate would work with the head of research on devising and executing our research programme, with responbiilties ranging from data collection and analysis through to content delivery. There would be opportunities to present both internally and externally and become more involved in client-facing activities.

The role will be based within our Clients, Brand & Markets team, but would work closely with key stakeholders across the wider partnership. There will be an opportunity to specialise in a particular market segment over time.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Defining and delivering the research & insight programme; writing our regular outputs and contributing to one-off projects;
• Leading the collation and analysis of key market data;
• Managing and interrogating third party datasets and maintaining our suite of economic and market slides
• Responding to internal support requests;
• Presenting to clients and attending meetings if required;
• Managing a research analyst;
• Supporting wider partnership strategy as and when needed

Wider responsibilities include:

• Responding to client requests and authoring client reports where appropriate;
• Liasing with the marketing and business development teams and contributing to their objectives;
• Developing new ways to visualise data and explain trends;
• Representing research & insight within the firm

Qualifications

The successful candidate should have:

• A degree, preferably in a relevant subject (such as Economics, Geography, Real Estate or Planning)
• At least 5-6 years’ experience within the research team of a property consultancy or investor, or similar role;
• Excellent analytical, report writing and presentational skills, as well as strong commercial awareness and the ability to work to challenging deadlines
• A knowledge of, or interest in, the UK’s commercial and residential property market, UK’s urban geography and urban economics more generally
• Good presentation and communication skills

Knowledge and experience of the following will be advantageous:

• A variety of commercial and residential property markets;
• Microsoft Excel (intermediate to advanced is essential)
• GIS skills (not essential)
• Statistical languages such as R or Python (not essential)