Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company, and our Worldpanel colleagues are experts in shopper behavior. Offering continuous monitoring, advanced analytics and tailored solutions for our clients, they help turn purchase behavior into a competitive advantage across a wide range of markets including tech, fashion, telecoms and fast-moving consumer goods.

Job Details

We’re looking for a Consumer Insight Director to lead a part of the team working with Nestlé in the UK. If you passionate about managing, supporting and empowering a team to succeed against its objectives; building a network of strong trust-based relationships with clients and delivering impactful insight to clients then this is the role for you!

We have a great track record of delivering powerful, incisive insight about shopper and consumer behaviors to help Nestlé find growth, and a critical aspect of this role is the hands-on generation and delivery of strong, clear, commercially relevant insights and stories. We partner closely with Nestlé to really get under the skin of their most pressing business challenges, feeding our expertise in shopper behavior into their decision-making and business processes, and to do that, we’re looking for someone who is willing to develop and share strong, insight-based opinions and constructively challenge the client to help find the best answer - just like a good ‘trusted advisor’ should!

Nestlé has a broad and deep partnership with Worldpanel and you will be part of a large team all dedicated to the client, which means a strong support network, but also gives the opportunity for you to act as a coach and role-model to the whole team.

Nestlé engages with Worldpanel across many of our services, with regular access to data from our Purchase, Usage, OOH and Worldpanel Plus panels, as well as conducting projects using our Advanced Analytics capabilities; this role will require you to build a deep knowledge of our capabilities and then translate this to the client in a way that demonstrates the value that they add to their business.

Nestlé has a diverse and varied product portfolio, and this role offers an opportunity to work on three varied categories (Pet, Cereals and Yoghurts&Chilled Deserts). In this role you would lead the relationships with these clients, managing a team of 3 people, driving senior engagement and ensuring we continually delight Nestlé.

As part of the role, you will work closely with the 2 other CID’s on the account to help guide the direction of the relationship, find efficiencies and share best practice across the Nestlé business, and with team leaders owning the account.

KEY OUTCOMES

• Insight: Producing and presenting high quality insight. Delivering challenging presentations to senior audiences.

• Service innovation: Contributing ideas for improving our service and proactively leading initiatives that will enable us to hit the milestones in our growth plan, communicating with key internal stakeholders and clients as necessary. • Commercial growth: Responsibility for driving growth across either across a portfolio of accounts or one key account. Revenue planning will be a core element in ensuring you meet and exceed the ambitious targets we are striving for.

CAPABILITIES
• A commercial & curious mindset with the ability to answer clients’ big questions and unafraid to have a point of view. • Landing and expanding; taking ownership and spearheading the growth of successful projects and development of longstanding client relationships. • Able to offer unique insights that challenge clients’ perspective by translating large data sets into impactful presentations that allow the client to make informed business decisions. • A desire to support individuals’ development and wellbeing with the ability to manage team workloads, and anticipate client demands.

Benefits

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

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to encourage new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to build an equality of opportunity in a fair and encouraging working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to thrive in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration. We want to build a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we encourage applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status or any other legally protected characteristics.

Privacy and Legal Statement

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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.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our people are looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for our people is our highest priority and we encourage our people to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage our colleagues to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all, and we’re flexible in our approach to ensure people feel included and accepted. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, which is why we welcome applications from all background and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not a perfect fit, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.