Associate Director

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Associate Director

We're the world's leading data, insights, and consulting company we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

About the job

The primary responsibilities are to be in charge of a specific % of revenue growth on a yearly basis building strong client relationships, make a proven difference to the client's business, and for overall client satisfaction. A Director manages a high performing team with responsibility for its people, clients and business delivery and growth. They are also accountable for overseeing the entire delivery process, deliverables, client engagement and consultancy, providing insightful, value-added market intelligence to new and existing clients. As part of the management team, responsibilities include business development, people management and financial management along with business strategy implementation.

Job Goals

• Lead accounts to oversee the team deliver all account deliverables while working to agreed budgets, and course-corrects where required
• Ensure all deliverables meet client needs and generate strong insight and impact for clients business
• Design appropriate solutions to drive meaningful insight for clients needs and their business
• Formulate, articulate and validate hypotheses to help build appropriate, relevant and impactful stories
• Develop in-depth knowledge and understanding of your clients and their business in all interactions with clients.
• Deliverables and analysis conducted applies this knowledge and commercial implications and realities.

• Deliver effective advice and consultancy for your clients
• Manage and develop a high performing and engaged team with 1-3 direct line reports and creates a culture which fosters team collaboration, growth and learning
• Build strong relationships and deliver to account responsibilities sufficiently to retain clients and maintain existing business

Ideal Skills and Capabilities:

• Proven Experience in Market research or Consumer Insights within agencies or end-users
• At least 8-10 years progressive experience
• Experience in leading a team and mentoring
• Strong communications and presentation skillsoverview, brand management, market understanding, people management, customer experience

Continue to shape your future at Kantar. We're proud you're considering how to always get better and are making the investment in your career. Let's continue to win together and help shape the brands of tomorrow.

What part of Kantar might I be joining

You'll be joining our Insights division, the masters of using data to resolve challenges. They help brands define what they should stand for, how to reinvent and renew their offer, how to better reach audiences, and how to win with consumers. By blending human insights expertise with the latest technology advances, Insights make sure we can deliver innovative information to brands everywhere.

Why join Kantar

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way works for them. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you're not an exact match, we'd love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

Privacy and Legal Statement

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

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At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitiveand alsoto support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that's out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health andwell beingis taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is the world's leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar's 30,000 people help the world's leading organisations succeed and grow.