Associate Director

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Job Details

Kantar is the world’s leading marketing data and analytics company. We have a complete, unique and rounded understanding of how people think, feel and act; globally and locally in over 90 markets. By combining the deep expertise of our people, our data resources and benchmarks and our innovative analytics and technology, we help our clients understand people and inspire growth.

Our insights colleagues are experts in human understanding. With expertise covering brand, innovation, creative, media, commerce and customer experience, 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.

About the role

The primary responsibility of the Associate Director is to lead accounts on a day to day basis, with mínimal Director support, and effectively contribute to the efficiency of the business. They are also responsible for creating meaningful impact on our client’s businesses and are the interface between Kantar and our clients. The role includes client engagement, consultancy, study design and analysis, driving preparation and delivery of presentations and reports as well as broader business responsibilities including seeking new business, people management and the implementation of broader business initiatives to improve business performance.

Key Responsibilities
- Managing Client Relationships
- Winning work
- Managing Projects
- Delivering Analysis to Generate Insights
- Commercial Acumen

People

What you will be accountable for:

- Reporting to a Director you would be responsible for managing sensory testing and ad hoc research across a number of priority clients and industries
- You’ll be responsible for the management of the entire research process - from building proposals and designing questionnaires to creating bespoke reports and presenting these back to clients
- Previous experience with sensory research and/or product optimisation via central location testing, in-home use tests, sensory qual, trained panels etc. would be ideal, in addition to the desire to seek out the “why”, to find a compelling story with the data and to be commercially minded.

Required skills:

- Minimum 5-8 years’ experience in Sensory, Product Optimisation or NPD Research (quantitative and/or qualitative)
- Ability to analyse data using Q or SPSS
- Strong commercial acumen
- Strong quantitative survey design skills
- Strong research reporting skills and PPT template creation
- Ability to work with agility and to tight timelines/deadlines
- Strong Client management; independent decision making on day-to-day projects that meets clients objectives
- Comfortable keeping regular communication with the client on project specifics
- Experience in running multi-market studies
- Other Research experience (e.g., concept testing, ad testing, brand tracking, price and pack analysis, etc.)

Location

Chadstone, Dandenong RdAustralia

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 competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

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 and well being is 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 world’s 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, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.