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Associate Director-Commercial Strategy Consulting
About the Role
As an Associate Director within Kantars Commercial Strategy Consulting team you will be a senior leader responsible for shaping steering and delivering growth strategy engagements that help our clientssolve their business and brand challenges. You will partner with CMOs growth leaders and executive stakeholders to unlock sustainable insightled growth through segmentation portfolio strategy longterm growth visioning and forwardlooking activation.
Associate Directors lead multiple projects or large-scale programmes own senior client relationships and ensure our commercial strategic and quality standards are consistently exceeded. You will contribute significantly to business development develop our consulting offers and build a highperforming team environment across levels and markets.
Key Responsibilities
1. Client Leadership & Commercial Growth
Serve as the senior client lead on engagements building trusted partnerships up to Csuite level and acting as a subjectmatter expert in Commercial Strategy
Deeply understand client business models market dynamics and organisational priorities to shape tailored growth strategies
Identify and convert growth opportunities within existing client relationships and proactively open new doors with lapsed or new clients
Lead proposal development solution design and commercial negotiations ensuring profitability and longterm client value
2. Strategic Insight Framework Leadership & Solution Development
Lead the design and delivery of insightdriven commercially robust strategic narratives
Guide teams tosynthesisecomplex multisource data into clear strategic direction and actionable recommendations
Shape and refine consulting solutions contributing to the evolution of Kantars IP tools and thought leadership
Push the practice forward by challenging the status quo and innovating new ways of working
3. Project & Engagement Ownership
Own endtoend delivery of multiple projects or large multimarket programmes across scoping design execution and evaluation
Ensure delivery meets or exceeds client expectations on quality insight impact timeliness and commercial performance
Oversee global/regional/local resource planning and coordination
4. People Leadership Coaching & Culture Building
Lead coach and inspire crossdisciplinary teams fostering consulting excellence and high performance
Develop talent across multiple geographies
Model Kantarbehavioursand champion an inclusive collaborative culture
5. Internal Leadership & Practice Building
Contribute to the strategic direction of the Commercial Strategy Consulting practice including offer development and capability building
Support revenue planning pipeline management and forecasting
Represent the practice across broader Kantar initiatives
Capabilities & Experience
Technical & Strategic Skills
Deep expertise in growthand commercialstrategy segmentation portfolio strategy brand strategy insights or strategic consulting
Strong analytical capability
Proven ability to lead complex multilayered strategic engagements
(Preferable)Strong familiarity with Commercial Strategy frameworks and Kantars methodologies
Consulting Leadership & Commercial Skills
Notableexperience instrategicor commercialconsulting
Track record of building and growing senior client relationships
Strong project andprogrammeleadership skills
Demonstrated success in securing new business and contributing to revenue growth
Excellent communication and influential storytelling
Mindsets & Behaviours
Curious proactive and futurefocused
Operates with accountability transparency and collaboration
Committed to continuous improvement and elevating consulting standards
Impact & Progression
Associate Directors drive meaningful commercial impact client transformation and internal practice growth. Progression to Director requires outstanding commercial leadership deep client influence scaled practice impact and sustained revenue performance.
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Location
London South Bank CentralUnited KingdomKantar 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 competitiveand alsoto 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 andwell beingis 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 worlds 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 Kantars 30000 people help the worlds leading organisations succeed and grow.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Program assessment
- FDA Regulations
- Manufacturing & Controls
- Program Evaluation
- budget forecast
- Research Experience
- Operations Management
- Research & Development
- Strategic Planning
- Contract Management
- Leadership Experience
- negotiation
