Strategic Lead Planner

Insights

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company and our Insights colleagues are experts in human understanding. They help clients define what brands should stand for, how to disrupt and renew their offer, how to connect with audiences and how to win with consumers and customers.

Job Details

Kantar, backed by Bain Capital, is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else.

We are the Innovation team within Kantar Insights. A friendly and dynamic team who are smashing all targets and are therefore seeking new talent to add additional perspectives and further accelerate our growth at this exciting time

We are lucky enough to work with one of the world’s leading innovators and support them to truly embrace a more iterative and agile innovation journey. Their business and the spaces where they operate are going through wholesale transformation, and they need our support identify, build and launch meaningfully differentiated innovation in this changing landscape. Our work is characterised by strategic deep dives, rapid experimentation and a real focus on human driven learning, and, increasingly, cutting edge research techniques based on the latest behavioural sciences and lean innovation thinking.

Our client is already feeling the impact.
- “I would never have been so brave with the products I am creating. The work you have provided has given me the confidence to push the boundaries.”_
- “It’s been an eye-opening experience. It’s brought us closer to our consumers, their language, their needs, what really makes them tick, this has helped understand what really matters to consumers”._
- “You are driving us to better outcomes, and this has been a really rewarding experience, you’ve delivered strong strategic insight wrapped up in high quality storytelling”_

This role:
A co-pilot with senior decision makers across insights, brand, innovation, R&D in the creation of value through new product and service propositions.

You will oversee a team to deliver a new workstream that provides rapid access to end user audiences to iteratively develop NPD within the stimulation category. The team will execute a series of rapid insight engagements, to provide human insights to inform the product development cycle and guide innovation strategy. These engagements could take the form of a quick qualitative forum, an immersive ethnography with end users, or iterative quali / quant prototype assessment and development. The insights gleaned will help our client launch game changing new products that redefine the category and deliver commercial advantage

Clients would say: I love working with you because.

look beyond the obvious to really understand what users are looking for, and where new opportunity sits. You bring rich innovation and category expertise, and through our partnership you help me create powerful innovation by bringing market leading innovations to reality.
- ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Know Your Specialism
- An innovation expert, with a proven track record of developing (or supporting the development) of human centric innovation
- Leverages deep Kantar innovation knowledge to take the best of Kantar to address specific client’s needs
- Data agnostic knowledge base, comfortable working with and blending different types of data to tell powerful client stories
- Client Leadership
- Owns & leads our Innovation Lab programme
- Builds long term trusted client partnerships, with Insights and R&D, with on-site presence
- Stewardship of projects, ensuring high impact with clients at the critical points throughout the project and quality of delivery within budget and timescales - not day to day project management
- Oversees the creation and delivery of powerful insights to support and shape the clients innovation strategy and tactical plans
- Proactively seeks out client feedback & implements strategies that will drive improved client relationships
- Commercial Leadership
- Delivering against net sales/gross margin target per annum through the powerful execution of this programme of work
- Looks to expand the scope of the programme by accessing new budget holders and buying points
- People Leadership
- A role model for driving change and transformation; influences others to create a relentless pursuit of industry leading change
- Leads & motivates the client team across practice areas to optimise client impact, ensuring casting creates successful client partnerships
- Role models our core values and behaviours, and creates a collaborative culture where the team can flourish

Country

United Kingdom

Location

London, More London Place

Why join Kantar?

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Com