Trainee Research

Kantar Media

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company and our Media colleagues are the experts in understanding the changing advertising landscape. Specialising in audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media, their global coverage and local expertise enable our clients to better understand media audiences and their relationships with brands.

Job Details

Media monitoring that’s beyond measure

Trainee Research & Operations Executive

KANTAR MEDIA

London, Grays Inn Road

Do you have a keen eye for detail? Love problem solving? Want to build a career in media research working with data?

If so, then the role of Trainee Research & Operations Executive could be perfect for you

KANTAR

Leading the way in the exciting world of media research, we provide the most accurate and comprehensive intelligence on media consumption, performance and value. At Kantar’s Media division we power media choices. Our insight, expertise, and best in class data and services help clients to measure, monitor and select the most effective media.

Kantar division is offering an exciting opportunity in their TGI team to start a career by gaining the technical expertise and experience of working with data. The role comes with a clear career path supported by relevant training and development, allowing anyone keen to learn to progress from Graduate/Trainee to Senior Executive level, while taking on more responsibility within the team.

WHAT TRAINING DO WE OFFER?

A job at Kantar offers lots of exciting development and growth opportunities:
The TGI Executive Development Programme will guide your day-to-day development within the team, taking you from beginner to expert within first couple of years. You will be supported by the team, a mentor, and your manager, and equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to build a successful career in an increasingly data driven environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Questionnaire design
- Fieldwork management
- Liaising with client success teams
- Processing data using bespoke software
- Data cleaning through scripting
- Checking and investigating data issues
- Scripting of online questionnaires
- Creation of the final deliverables
- Project management of the surveys, including dealing with various stakeholders

CAPABILITIES:

- Educated to degree level in any discipline (preferred 2:1 minimum, supported by strong A-levels) or equivalent experience
- Excellent logical thinking - ability to understand complex concepts, and draw conclusions by analysing available information
- Ability to understand technology, and to learn how systems work - the team use a variety of tools built to support the highly engineered data building process
- Intermediate Excel skills (importing and formatting data, lookups, pivot tables, functions, conditional logic)
- Interest in working with data
- Knowledge of foreign languages desirable (i.e. French, German, Spanish)

JOIN US:
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.

Country

United Kingdom

Location

London, Grays Inn Road

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. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, nobody knows people better than Kantar.