Associate Vice President
Kantar
Date: 3 days ago
City: Kolkata, West Bengal
Contract type: Full time
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Job Details
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. We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion, and creativity to inspire new thinking. To start an exciting career with our India business, apply today.
Associate Vice President/ Vice President
India
Role Description We are looking for ambitious, energetic and experienced research professionals who are looking to further their career in the Consumer Insights function. You will join us with a focus on a specific area of expertise (Brand Guidance, Innovation, Segmentation) and drive excellence, efficiency and thought leadership to ultimately drive impactful insights for our clients & help elevate internal capabilities. The scope of work would include multi-country projects for our International client headquartered in London and operating in 50+ markets across the Globe. As a people leader you will also be able to motivate team members to build capabilities and strive for excellence.
Key Outcomes Will Involve
Our client is a FTSE 100 Global client, headquartered in London and operating in more than 50 markets across the Globe. While most of our colleagues are based in Kolkata, we have colleagues who work across different Kantar offices in Bangalore/ Mumbai/ Gurgaon, in India. Some of our teams service our clients directly from India, while others are in London and other onsite locations.
This role will give you an opportunity to elevate your skills, learn, grow and give you the experience of working with colleagues and clients from across the Globe.
Our works spans across,
Kolkata, Infinity BenchmarkIndia
Kantar Rewards Statement
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 competitive and also to 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 and well being is 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.
To start a career that is out of the ordinary, please apply...
Job Details
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. We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion, and creativity to inspire new thinking. To start an exciting career with our India business, apply today.
Associate Vice President/ Vice President
India
Role Description We are looking for ambitious, energetic and experienced research professionals who are looking to further their career in the Consumer Insights function. You will join us with a focus on a specific area of expertise (Brand Guidance, Innovation, Segmentation) and drive excellence, efficiency and thought leadership to ultimately drive impactful insights for our clients & help elevate internal capabilities. The scope of work would include multi-country projects for our International client headquartered in London and operating in 50+ markets across the Globe. As a people leader you will also be able to motivate team members to build capabilities and strive for excellence.
Key Outcomes Will Involve
- Research Solutions: Design, build and scale up research solutions completed by custom analytics.
- Compelling Insights: Successfully delivering compelling insights to senior client stakeholders. Presentations are usually presented through a meeting or workshop, followed by an alignment on recommended actions.
- Client Centricity: Leading a program/ workstream, you will be responsible to build and scale up research solutions that are centred around core business questions.
- People Leadership: Collaborating with peers and working with team members helping develop their analytical skills, insights generation abilities and client servicing skills. You will play the role of a mentor to ensure team member are engaged and are leveraging opportunities to learn, deliver and grow to their potential.
- Innovation & Futurism: Stay on trend and bring in new ideas, leverage other Kantar assets and apply new techniques & leverage tech/ digital both to drive richer insights and elevate techniques. Bringing in ideas that will drive efficiency and better returns to us as a business and to our clients.
- Commercial growth: Revenue planning will be a core element in ensuring you meet and exceed the ambitious targets we are striving for. This will also include understanding & driving compliance on commercial processes.
- Attitude/ Skills
- A commercial & curious mindset with the ability to answer clients’ big questions and eager to present their point of view
- Landing and expanding; taking ownership and spearheading the growth of successful projects/ workstreams and development of longstanding client relationships
- Commercially strong and able to spot opportunities and convert them efficiently
- Strong analytical skills and able to offer unique insights that challenge clients’ perspective by translating large data sets into impactful presentations that allow the client to make informed business decisions.
- Willing to embrace, drive and suggest change
- A desire to support individuals’ development and wellbeing with the ability to manage team workloads, and anticipate client demands
- Resilience to work at pace, remain focussed, effective and goal oriented; also helping steer team members when required
- Effective communication skills
- Experience o Experience in managing a team o Experience in Brand Guidance & Tracking/ Innovation preferred but not essential
- Qualifications
- Master’s in Business Administration
- Post Graduate Degree
Our client is a FTSE 100 Global client, headquartered in London and operating in more than 50 markets across the Globe. While most of our colleagues are based in Kolkata, we have colleagues who work across different Kantar offices in Bangalore/ Mumbai/ Gurgaon, in India. Some of our teams service our clients directly from India, while others are in London and other onsite locations.
This role will give you an opportunity to elevate your skills, learn, grow and give you the experience of working with colleagues and clients from across the Globe.
Our works spans across,
- Brand Tracking and Guidance across multiple markets that influences brand and category strategy for our clients globally and across markets
- Innovation testing that spans across product, pack, and concept tests, share forecasting for new offers and brand migrations and pricing strategy
- Consumer segmentation across different markets
Kolkata, Infinity BenchmarkIndia
Kantar Rewards Statement
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 competitive and also to 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 and well being is 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.
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