Associate Director

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 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 redefine and renew their offer, how to connect with audiences and how to win with consumers and customers.
- Are you a motivated individual, looking to join a successful, rapidly growing business and be part of an intimate team of passionate research professionals?
- Our growing team in Brisbane, set across four hubs, helps Australia’s most successful businesses and you will drive real change through leading-edge insights delivery
- No two days are the same and our office is vibrant and full of wonderfully energetic and brilliant colleagues

Kantar is looking for an Associate Director to join our team The primary responsibility of the Associate Director is to lead accounts on a day to day basis 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.

What we are looking for:

- Delivering the insight component of projects from beginning to end, using your culture and consumer sources to build thinking
- Have an irrepressible instinct and strong ability to make the complex simple and tell powerful stories that make sense of the world in ways that will move clients to share and act.
- Have to connect the dots that will solve the big questions for our clients and get a real thrill from building and delivering strategic research recommendations.
- Be a brilliant communicator that is able to articulate insights (both in writing and in person / presentation) to provide clients with outcomes that meet or exceed expectations
- Have strong commercial acumen that ensures they deliver profitable jobs that meet or exceed client expectations
- Role model behaviours that inspire more junior team members

Main responsibilities
- Deliver effective advice and consultancy for your clients
- Develop positive relationships with clients to the extent they are the first port of call across all accounts for strategic opinions and advice
- Leading accounts to oversee the team deliver all account deliverables while working to agreed budgets, and course-corrects where required
- Integrate knowledge of MB tools, philosophies and techniques and applies these appropriately to the design, analysis and interpretation of research projects to deliver meaningful insights
- Ensuring insights are translated into engaging stories with clear and concise implications that will help clients make better marketing decisions
- Actively seeks new business opportunities and plays an active role in developing them to achieve personal and team budget
- Contributes to rollouts of regional/global launches, actively looking for opportunities to introduce them to clients and to add value to accounts

Why join Kantar?
- Work with an amazing team of experts
- Exciting career growth opportunities across an array of clients and industries with a wonderful culture
- Support and collaboration with a global network of research professions for a truly global career
- Kantar is a forward-thinking company that encourages work-life balance with hybrid and flexible working options and unique leave entitlements
- Training, development and mentorship from the industry’s leading insights specialists
- Great perks like summer fridays and wellbeing leave (extra week of annual leave)

Country

Australia

Location

Brisbane, Fortitude Valley

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.