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Ansök senast: 2024-11-18
Research Director
Please note, we encourage applications that require visa sponsorship/relocation, so if you are interested in this role and sit outside of the UK, please feel free to apply!
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We are an Africa expertise team, based in London, helping international clients launch or grow their brands across African markets. We have worked in the region for 15 years, drawing out regional and market level strategy and connecting global and local stakeholders.
Our team has a holistic view of the entire African continent and this makes us experts in conducting complex multi-country projects, adapting Kantar solutions for African realities, and taking knowledge from one market to another
Our Client Directors immerse themselves in their client’s worlds to really understand their brands, communications and business strategy in order to help them grow. The majority of our work comes from large, global accounts and involves managing brand trackers across multiple countries. We also do regular work across innovation, creative and shopper domains, as well as delivering large-scale advanced analytics projects.
You will get to develop collaborative, strategic partnerships with your clients. As our research capabilities are broad, you will also find yourself managing multiple data sources - combining brand tracking (mostly automated and app based), brand positioning, brand guidelines, analytics, client data, retail tracking data, media data and segmentation etc.
All this in a supportive, positive, proactive, buoyant business with excellent career development opportunities, where you can expect to be properly rewarded for the results you deliver.
Key outcomes
- Developing collaborative, strategic partnerships with clients and delivering insights throughout all levels of the organisation (from main client contact to the C-suite)
- Designing the strategy for your key accounts and other focus growth areas in collaboration with the other key account leaders and the departmental CCO/MD
- Leading ongoing brand equity programmes and identifying opportunities to further develop the client’s Kantar research portfolio with increasingly, cutting edge research techniques, such as innovation, social media and brand analytics
- Leading your key client account on pitches/proposals and identifying cross-sell opportunities, ensuring penetration across product/service portfolio and leveraging sector expertise/insight
- Pioneering new solutions and working with clients to co-create solutions to their business issues
- Proactively building a wide network across Kantar, in order to provide holistic answers to our clients’ business questions
- Ensuring overall client satisfaction and revenue growth
- Inspiring the team and giving direction to your account team/s
- Managing commercials, including pipeline, orderbook, profitability of projects, client invoicing and financial admin.
- Managing a core team, being responsible for their wellbeing and career development at Kantar
Key capabilities
- Highly strategic and consultative individual with a passion for building client relationships and turning data into actionable business insights
- Experience in brand tracking is required. Additional experience in innovation, creative, shopper, advanced analytics and CX also desirable.
- Experience working with global clients and managing large-scale multi-country projects.
- Experience managing and inspiring teams in a previous role/s and a clear understanding of management fundamentals.
- Experience dealing with commercial aspects of project/client management, including job profit management, pipeline compliance and financial admin.
- Experience working on business development with new and existing clients
- Experience working in Africa or with Africa clients is a bonus, but general experience working within developing markets is also beneficial.
- A quantitative research background is required.
