The Vacancy

Project Manager

Job Type: Permanent (Hybrid)

Location: London or Birmingham

Own projects. Shape delivery. Fast-track your career.

Are you an emerging project leader ready to step up and take full ownership of exciting, meaningful research projects?
If you've built a solid foundation in project management and you're looking for a role where you can grow fast, lead confidently, and make a tangible impact, this is your next move.

Working for BMG Research

Joining BMG Research means becoming part of a dynamic team of over 50 professionals based in Birmingham and London, dedicated to delivering impactful social research and insight. As part of the RSK Group, a global organisation with over 15,000 employees across 40+ countries, BMG benefits from the infrastructure, expertise, and collaborative culture of one of the world's largest privately owned environmental and sustainability firms

The Role

At BMG Research, part of the wider RSK Group our Project Managers are the engine that keeps our work running seamlessly. In this role you will manage end-to-end delivery, build strong relationships with clients and internal teams, and help ensure every project lands on time, on budget, and with outstanding quality.

As our Project Manager you will have the opportunity to take the lead on small-to-medium research projects and support wider business growth:

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and deliver projects with confidence:

• Set up new projects, create clear project plans, schedules, risk registers, and budgets.
• Manage timelines, resources, and deliverables to ensure every project meets scope and specification.
• Oversee fieldwork, ensuring smooth execution and timely completion.

Drive quality and operational excellence:

• Uphold high project quality and data protection standards from start to finish.
• Monitor progress, solve problems proactively, and keep everything on track.
• Ensure all deliverables are completed, documented, and archived correctly.

Engage clients and build strong relationships:

• Lead client conversations on project scope, timelines, and progress and handle any issues smoothly.
• Make sure clients feel supported, informed, and confident throughout delivery.

Contribute to growth and innovation:

• Cost up small proposals or sections of larger bids as part of business development.
• Identify ways to improve processes and project efficiency.
• Coach team members in project management best practice, helping build team capability.

This is a role for someone who loves organising, problem-solving, and making things happen.

Key Skills & Experience

• 3-4+ years' experience in project management or market/social research with a project management focus.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple moving parts at pace.
• Strong communication skills-you're comfortable leading conversations with clients and colleagues.
• A sharp eye for detail and confidence in maintaining accurate plans, budgets, and documentation.
• Familiarity with project management tools and Microsoft Office.
• Commercial awareness-able to think about cost, scope, value, and profitability.
• A proactive, solutions-first mindset and a desire to keep improving how things are done.

If you have led parts of projects and you're ready to lead whole projects-this role will give you the platform to shine.

Why you'll love it here:

This role offers the perfect blend of structure and stretch as well as:

• Real ownership of projects from day one.
• A clear path to progression as you hone your project leadership skills.
• Supportive leaders who want you to try, learn, and grow.
• A collaborative culture where coaching, innovation, and problem-solving are encouraged.

Here at BMG Research, you will be at the heart of delivering work that genuinely makes a difference to clients-and you'll build skills that set you up for an exciting future.

Salary and Benefits

Along with a Competitive Salary of £35,000-£45,000 depending on experience you will have access to a wide range of company benefits including:

• Private Medical Cover
• Life Assurance
• Free fruit
• Monthly Social Events
• Personalised Training Plan

Ready to level up your project management career?

If you thrive on organised chaos, love making things happen, and want a role where you can grow quickly-we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today and step into a role where your impact really counts.

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About BMG Research

At BMG Research, we believe high-quality insight has the power to shape policy, improve lives, and make public services better for everyone. For more than 30 years, we've partnered with organisations across the UK to help them understand people, evaluate change, and make decisions rooted in evidence. Our work blends methodological rigour, sector expertise, and meaningful storytelling to help clients understand challenges, identify priorities, and evaluate the impact of change.

About Us

BMG Research is an award-winning social research and analytics agency operating primarily in the UK. We partner with clients to inform decision-making, shape policy and guide investment, thereby leading to better public services, positive customer experiences and a fair and equitable society.

By working with clients to understand the challenges they face, we can identify priorities for action and evaluate the impact of change. We combine our in-depth topic knowledge and methodological expertise with sophisticated analytics and impactful insight to create bespoke solutions tailored to a client's need. Clients include large government departments, such as Defra, the Department for Business and Trade, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, HMRC, the Home Office and the Department for Education. We also work with government agencies and regulators, local authorities, charities, utility companies and housing associations. Our projects range from small to large, from exploratory research to evaluation and from qualitative to quantitative, including using official statistics. Topics vary and include crime and justice, the media and online harms, health policy, tourism and leisure, customer experience, industrial and trade policy.

Working for BMG Research
Joining BMG Research brings you into a 60-person team based across Birmingham, London and Glasgow, focused on delivering effective social research and insight. We are committed to flexible working practices with a culture of individual and collective success in a fair and supportive working environment. We operate a hybrid working model with the expectation that staff will be in the office at least 60% of the time. We ensure everyone has a learning and development path and a review and appraisal system to support their careers. We offer fantastic development opportunities to everyone through face-to-face, online and on-demand training and structured development that covers all aspects of technical research skills, management and leadership, communication, health and wellbeing and commercial behaviours. You can also undertake different roles in organisations through secondments in other RSK businesses. Our wider group relationships also provide access to a vast range of employee groups focused on issues such as sustainability, EDI and wellbeing, as well as social activities.

RSK Group
BMG Research is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.

At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.

Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.

By providing workplace adjustments, we make it easier for people to confidently explore and pursue our career opportunities and recognise that flexibility is key to fostering a dynamic and thriving workplace. Many of our office-based positions benefit from a flexible working arrangement, allowing our team members to achieve a balance between professional and personal commitments.

We actively encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, ages, neurotypes, religions or beliefs, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities.

If you're passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?

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Benefits

Life Assurance

Annual Leave Purchase

Cycle to Work Scheme

Discounted Gym Membership

Mental Health Support

Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme