Account Director Quantitative Research Mumbai

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Job Details

About Us-

Kantar is the worlds leading marketing data and analytics business and an indispensable brand partner to the worlds top companies including 96 of the worlds 100 biggest advertisers.

We have a complete unique and rounded understanding of people around the world: how they think feel and act globally and locally in over 90 markets.

KEY OUTCOMES STATEMENT
Achieving growth and managing business financials
Identifying new business initiatives and leveraging skills across units
Building and nurturing strong client relationships
Creating an environment that fosters new work/innovations
Driving thought leadership in teams
Developing research capability among team members
Guiding the research executives working on a project to understand exactly what is required of them and training them if necessary. Contribution to the overall training of executives in quantitative research techniques.
Client management and presentation of company credentials proposals and research results
Ensuring the highest level of client servicing and account planning to build senior networks across our client base.
Report writing and presentation creation including client recommendations with the ability to work independently
Negotiation of acceptable costs and contract agreements with suppliers.
Creation of discussion guides and screeners moderation of groups interviews ethnography and online forums
Budget control and time spent monitoring job cost summaries regularly.
Overall management of the research team and suppliers.

CAPABILITIES STATEMENT
The position requires an intelligent MBA graduate with 8 11 years of experience in quantitative consumer insights primarily consumer-focused; specific experience in the FMCG retail and healthcare sectors would be an advantage
The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who is client-focused and comes with proven expertise in MR or Marketing and Branding (with regular interaction and understanding of MR) with a track record of leveraging your knowledge for your own business or client benefit
Demonstrated ability in managing a team investing in their development and striking the right balance between tasks and relationships
Process orientation and ability to manage processes for cost and time efficiencies
Track record of networking skills that you have leveraged for yourself and your organization
Landing and expanding; taking ownership and spearheading the growth of successful projects/ workstreams and development of longstanding client relationships
Strong analytical communication and interpersonal skills

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 if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.

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 works for them. 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.

Privacy and Legal Statement

At Kantar the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age race religion gender pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity disability marital status or any other legally protected characteristics.

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (Kantar). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.

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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 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.