Senior Research Executive at Kantar

Role Description

Join a team that deals largely with brand tracking doing the following:

• Ensure the smooth running of research projects from start to completion
• Build a strong day to day working relationship with the clients
• Add value by continually building your technical expertise as a market researcher and apply it to the work you do for your clients
• Manage a mini-team of junior researchers
• 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
• Point of views

Manage the following processes/ duties mainly unsupervised

• Manage multiple projects
• Project deadlines / prioritise work appropriately and logically
• Costs and resource management
• Day to day project management
• Liaise with other departments – 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
• Minimum of 3 years’ work experience in the research industry
• Excel & PowerPoint proficiency
   

Core Research Competencies

• Originality / fresh ‘’adhoc’’ thinking to suit our adhoc client requests
• Analytical mindset
• Ability to generate insights
• Deliver accurate, high quality work under pressure
• Attention to detail
   

Client Focus

• Ability to establish and maintain strong professional client relationships
• Have a passion for brands
   

Financial Focus

• Ensure profitability of jobs
• Keep an eye on and drive targets
• Seek and drive new business opportunities
• Business development skills
• Commercial acumen

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.

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