Strategic Insight Director

4 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom ENGINEERINGUK Full time

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Strategic Insight Director - Chilled & Bakery

We're the world's leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Worldpanel provides brands and retailers with a unique, 360-degree understanding of consumer behaviour across the globe. We are shopper-centric, continuously monitoring the purchase and usage behaviour through the largest omnipanel in the world. With unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology and expert analysts, we partner with brands and retailers of all sizes, empowering them to reimagine what's possible, and change the landscape to create a better, healthier, more sustainable and inclusive world.

Job Details

Office Location: London (Westgate). Hybrid 2 days per week.

Role Purpose

We are looking to appoint a Strategic Insight Director to lead part of our Chilled & Bakery division. This role will suit an expert Consumer Insights Account Manager looking to take a step up and lead a high-performing and engaged team.

The Chilled & Bakery team has grown strongly over the past few years to strengthen our industry leading position working with the vast majority of major manufacturers across Chilled, Frozen and Bakery.

This role will give the right candidate autonomy to run your own team and portfolio of clients whilst working closely with a Business Unit Director. You will be a key part of the team, developing and nurturing the talent in your team, fostering great senior relationships within strategically important clients, and creating thought leadership pieces to elevate our position in the industry. Leading your own part of this team you will have the opportunity to shape your own team and work closely with New Business and Expert Services to expand our impact across the industry and take an active role across both Fresh Foods and the wider business as a senior member of the Worldpanel team.

What you'll get from us

  • 25 days annual leave (excl. bank holidays), plus your birthday off
  • Performance-related 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.
What does success look like in this role?
  • Lead a strategic or portfolio team to support the delivery and implementation of the business unit vision, purpose & strategy.
  • Delivery of team revenue targets and account plan(s), ensuring effective pipeline management to deliver against strategy.
  • Understand and monitor contractual T&C's / renewals and start renewal processes in a timely fashion, gathering client feedback & materials to strengthen our position.
  • Champion the quality of the insight work for your clients by continuously developing your team's knowledge of our capabilities and how to bring them to life for our clients.
  • Connect with clients at a deeper level and taking them beyond a transactional relationship, proactively identifying and effectively resolving challenging client situations.
  • Responsible for formal line management processes including ownership of resource planning and recruitment, performance management, career development, performance reviews, change requests, disciplinary process etc.
  • Build strategic multi-year client plans for your area of responsibility and lead in their implementation.
  • See opportunities to develop thought leadership in your area of expertise that enhances our reputation with your client base.
Key Capabilities:
  • Strong commercial and negotiating skills with a consistent track record of success in delivering against targets within a consumer insight, market research or data-centric business.
  • Expertise to help clients understand their shoppers and consumers through a consultative approach and to deliver with impact.
  • Team leadership skills to engage a team behind a set of goals and objectives.
  • Proven track record of building deep client relationships with senior partners.
  • Capable of balancing a complex combination of priorities from clients and the internal business.
Reasonable Adjustments

Kantar is committed to offering equal opportunities to all individuals including during the recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments or assistance, please advise us in advance of your interview so that we can make the necessary arrangements.

Country

United Kingdom

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 in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, 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. We're 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 you're not an exact match, we'd love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.
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