Strategic Insight Director Retail

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Job Details

Fancy being part of the fastest growing commercial team of 2024

We are seeking a Strategic Insight Director to join the Retail team leading a portfolio of clients including our largest retailer Tesco as well as Coop Iceland and our highprofile investment community of financial institutes and city banks.

You will manage a team to inspire first class client service exceptional revenue growth securing contract renewals and ensuring continual people development.

As part of the retail senior leadership team you will help to shape the success of the whole team and be given multiple opportunities to drive your own personal development. You will contribute to the wider success of the RFMCG team by playing an active role in the team growth plan.

The successful candidate will have a positive attitude and a passion for helping others succeed. You will have proven experience of driving commercial growth and developing individuals within your team.

Key Outcomes

• Clients: Overall senior lead for portfolio of accounts supporting a team of CIDs CMs CE and CAs. Responsibility for service review meetings the account planning process contract negotiations senior level presentations and targeted network expansion.
• Insights: support and coach the team to deliver excellent insight.
• Service development & innovation / data quality: Contributing ideas for improving our service highlighting any areas of concern working with the teams to agree to agree solutions and communicate to clients.
• Commercials: Ownership of the commercial target and forecasts handling renewals and team pipeline. Leading by example with commercial excellence. Coaching others to spot opportunities and convert to sales. Supporting the BUDs with driving overall commercial success across retail.
• Team: Developing and mentoring a group of dedicated and passionate individuals driving engagement and encouraging a culture of curiosity learning and collaboration. Contributing to the overall culture and growth of the wider retail team.
• Thought leadership: Working with the rest of the team to contribute to provoking and enlightening thought leadership.
  

Key Capabilities

• Proven experience in consumer insights or market research roles (either agency or client side).
• A strong people focus with experience of motivating & leading teams towards a shared vision.
• Proven commercial track record of revenue management & delivering client growth.
• Confident with the ability to deliver presentations and express an opinion to senior internal and external audiences with credibility.
• Experience of delivering service excellence to clients both personally & through others.
• Willing to embrace drive and suggest change.
  

What youll get from us

• 25 days annual leave (excl. bank holidays) plus your birthday off!
• Performancerelated Sales Commission scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Flexible benefits across health wealth and lifestyle.
• Extensive training and excellent scope for career development.
• A collaborative and supportive work environment.
  

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 encourage new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career thats out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to build an equality of opportunity in a fair and encouraging working environment where people feel included accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration.

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

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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 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 thats 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 wellbeing 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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Our Inclusion & Diversity Promise

Equality of opportunity for our people is our highest priority and we encourage our people to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage our colleagues to spend part of their working week in the office we understand no one size fits all and were flexible in our approach to ensure people feel included and accepted. Were committed to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people clients suppliers and communities which is why we welcome applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like youre not a perfect fit wed love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others that we might be hiring for.

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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 by amplifying our indepth expertise of human understanding alongside groundbreaking technology we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fastpaced ever shifting world.

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 that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included accepted and that we can win together. Were dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people clients suppliers and communities and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like youre not an exact match wed love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.