Associate, Surveys

Company Description

*Start Date Available: May/June 2025*

Third Bridge is a market-leading investment research firm. We provide integrated solutions for the world’s top investors and business leaders to help them make smarter and faster decisions. No other company in the world provides the same holistic investment offering: our superpower is the combination of human insights and unique investor-led content with a global expert network. We serve over 1,000 investment firms, offering clients 24/7 coverage through our team of 1,300+ employees located across eight offices.

Job Description

Surveys are widely used to gather quantitative and qualitative data using relevant questions from a sample of respondents. Third Bridge provides online B2B surveys by giving our clients access to high-quality responses from hard-to-find experts via our pre-screened, proprietary network. Our panel of experts covers all geographies, industries and functions. We have a dedicated Surveys team across the US and Europe that works around the clock to help clients with survey design, coding, fielding and results seamlessly and quickly.

The Survey Associate position is a key enabler in the development of our Surveys team as well as in the design of tools and processes to create the Surveys end product. The end goal is to provide a top quality Survey product that will drive market share gains across our clients by meeting their needs for quantitative insights.

Third Bridge is seeking an ambitious and enthusiastic Survey Associate to join the Surveys Team in London. The Surveys Associate will be responsible for the creation and execution of Surveys that help clients qualify and quantify industry trends through benchmarking analyses, product forecasting, and general competitive market analyses.

Reporting to the Regional Manager, Surveys, you will interact daily with our clients and our specialist community. As specialists are a shared resource, you will also frequently interact with key stakeholders within the Consulting and Private Equity verticals globally. Finally, as we are working in an agile way, you will be closely involved across business, product, data and development initiatives and work closely with our internal product, tech and data consolidation teams.

Responsibilities:

• The Survey Associate will be responsible for the execution of Surveys that help clients qualify and quantify industry trends through benchmarking analyses, product forecasting, and general competitive market analyses

• Provide feedback on clients’ Survey design, targeting specialised topics and populations

• Build out panels of experts according to client requirements

• Navigate survey requests with complex requirements and client-specific preferences

• Coordinate, problem-solve and build strong working relationships with panellists, clients, survey partners, and colleagues

Qualifications

• Experience collaborating with team-members in a high-throughput, deadline-driven, process-oriented, client-servicing environment

• Superior writing, logic and interaction skills; including oral and written communication as well as organisational skills

• Strong commercial acumen and familiarity or interest in understanding of different industries (including but not limited to Healthcare, Technology, Life Sciences, Consumer Goods, Financial Services), as well as how Consulting and Private Equity clients work, their organisational structure, asset class in which they operate, and how Surveys support their workflow

• Proven ability to work in a rigorous, fast-moving environment

• Meticulous attention to detail and a strong analytic outlook (including experience with data sets in Excel or Gsheets format)

• Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritise, identify and solve problems

• A plus, but not required: Experience with market research and survey design, primarily via exposure to survey design and the use of online survey platforms (gained in education or in a professional environment)

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree

• 0-2 years of experience in the financial services industry, with a strong understanding of Consulting and Private Equity, various industries and data analysis

• The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the country they are applying. 

Additional Information

What our people love about being an Associate at Third Bridge:

• Being surrounded by people they not only enjoy working with, but who also challenge and support them from the peer level up through senior management
• Partnering first-hand with the leading investors in the world and being privy to their thought process with all the learning this leads to
• Getting to dip their toes into every imaginable industry under the sun, and getting exposed to a variety of individuals with unique perspectives and backgrounds
• Owning individual responsibilities to grow our business, while also being in a team-oriented environment and working closely with their peers
• Building their career in business on a foundation of problem-solving, communication and commercial skills
• Building strong relationships both internally and externally create significant opportunities for professional development
• Living by “great minds think differently” in a diverse and inclusive team

Thrive at Third Bridge!

Expect your total first-year compensation to be in excess of £44,000, including bonus. Beyond pay, you can expect clear performance goals and to be recognised for your contributions. After ~2 years of strong results you could transition from being an individual contributor to managing your own team and P&L - a huge career milestone. Depending on your aspirations, you could also progress to a role in Sales, Product, or opportunities across our organisation.
We ensure every team member is able to bring their best self to work as well as in their lives outside - take a look at our benefits:

• Salary: Competitive base salary of £36,500+ (dependent on client type) with access to our bonus scheme after just 1 month. Plus an increase of £3,000+ on your base salary on your 12 month anniversary.
  • In Year 1, an average performer can expect to earn £44,000+ OTE but our top performers make more!

• Vacation: 25 days (which increases to 28 days after 2 years of service) plus UK Bank Holidays

• Learning: personal development allowance of £750 per year

• Health and wellbeing: private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan, a variety of health and wellbeing events to focus on mental health, Ride to Work scheme (savings on bikes and accessories)

• Future and family: pension contributions of 4% (increases with tenure) and life insurance of 4x of your base salary

• Flexibility: work from anywhere for one month per year, 2 annual volunteer days, 2 personal days when life throws you a curveball and 'Summer Fridays'

• Rewards: get points through our colleague-to-colleague recognition programme to spend on hotels, gift cards, donations to charity and more

• Social: weekly optional social gatherings, daily breakfast and snacks, social events

• ESG: CSR, Environment and Diversity & Inclusion (including Women at Third Bridge, Pride and Blkbridge)

• Frontline Innovation: your chance to share your ideas for improvement through Hackathons and other events