Senior Research Executive

Full Job Description

Role description

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 25000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.

Our insights colleagues are experts in human understanding. With expertise covering brand, innovation, creative, media, commerce and customer experience, they help clients define what brands should stand for, how to reinvent and renew their offer, how to connect with audiences and how to win with consumers and customers.

Join the Brand Guidance/Brand Tracking team (a team that deals largely with brand tracking) where you’ll ensure smooth running of research projects from start to finish, build strong day to day client relationships and make valuable contributions by continually building technical expertise as a market researcher. Role also includes providing guidance to a mini team of junior researchers as well as business development.

Work mainly unsupervised and produce for sign off by line manager

• Proposals and budgets
• Reports and Presentations decks
• Designing of research tools e.g. questionnaires
• Fieldwork materials e.g. briefing notes
• Data/Coding specs

Run the following processes/ duties mainly unsupervised

• Handle multiple projects daily
• Project deadlines / prioritise work appropriately and logically
• Costs and resource management
• Collaborate very closely with a diverse group of internal cross functional teams and cross region counterparts - operations, finance.
• Identify actions/issues that may have cost implications
• Problem solving/trouble shooting
• Presentations to clients

Role requirements

• Completed tertiary education – degree in Marketing or Statistics will be an added advantage
• Minimum of 3 years’ work experience in a research agency, client company or management/marketing consultancy
• Excel and PowerPoint proficiency
• Attention to detail
• Passion for building client relationships
• Ability to use analytical software e.g. SPSS, RFS will be added advantage
• Professional course in Marketing, Research, Sales or statistics will be an added advantage

Location

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 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.