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 sophisticated technologies. Kantar’s 30,000 people based in more than 100 countries help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow. Nobody knows people better than Kantar. We provide insight and inspiration to help our clients, our people and society to build and thrive in an outstanding world.
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.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Role Description
The primary responsibilities are to be in charge of a specific % of revenue growth on a yearly basis; building strong client relationships, make a proven difference to the client’s business, and for overall client happiness. A Director leads a high performing team with responsibility for its people, clients and business delivery and growth. They are also accountable for supervising the entire delivery process, results, client engagement and consultancy, providing insightful, improved market intelligence to new and existing clients. As part of the management team, responsibilities include business development, people management and financial management along with business strategy implementation.
Key responsibilities:
• Lead accounts to be responsible for the team deliver all account results while working to agreed budgets, and course-corrects where required
• Ensure all results meet client needs and generate strong insight and impact for clients business
• Craft appropriate solutions to drive significant insight for clients’ needs and their business
• Formulate, articulate and validate hypotheses to help build appropriate, relevant and impactful stories
• Develop in-depth knowledge and understanding of your clients and their business in all interactions with clients. Deliverables and analysis conducted applies this knowledge and commercial implications and realities.
• Deliver effective advice and consultancy for your clients
• Lead and develop a high performing and engaged team with 1-3 direct line reports and builds a culture which fosters teamwork, growth and learning
• Build positive relationships and deliver to account responsibilities sufficiently to retain clients and maintain existing business
Role Requirements
• Proven Experience in Market research or Consumer Insights within agencies or end-users
• At least 8-10 years progressive experience
• Experience in directing a team and mentoring
• Strong communications and presentation skills
At Kantar we have a coordinated 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.
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We want to create 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 well being 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.