Strategic Insight Director

Kantar Worldpanel 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 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 25,000 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 extraordinary world.
Our Worldpanel colleagues are the global experts in shopper behaviour, offering continuous monitoring, advanced analytics and tailored solutions to inspire successful decisions by leading organisations worldwide. Worldpanel turns purchase behaviour into competitive advantage across a diverse range of markets including tech, fashion, telecoms and FMCG.
Now more than ever, we need to identify and understand changes in consumer behaviour. At Kantar Worldpanel we partner with global and local businesses to help them understand the new normal, make informed business decisions and craft future strategies. We’re looking for an ambitious and experienced Research Manager/Director to join our Tesco team. We are a focussed, supportive and fun team looking for someone who wants to continue building a culture as one of the biggest and most successful teams in the business.
This is a fantastic chance to lead a team and head up one of the biggest accounts in our business. In this role, you will be the key touchpoint for our most senior Tesco contacts and will be involved with and direct key strategic projects. We will expect you to continue to maintain and build on our positive relationship with Tesco over time.
Internally, you will be responsible for a successful and engaged team of insights professionals. With continued growth and new opportunities there has never been a better time to join Worldpanel. Externally, you will lead the key relationships across the Tesco business and help them craft and implement their strategies for the future.
Key Outcomes

• Clients: Overall senior lead for Tesco (supporting the junior members of the team), with responsibility for driving and delivering high quality insights, service review meetings, the account planning process, plus targeted network expansion.
• Insights: Deliver credible presentations to senior audiences using data across all our panels, alongside alternative data sources (e.g., other Kantar divisions) to drive true consumer insight.
• Service development & innovation / data quality: Contributing ideas for improving our service, highlighting any areas of concern to relevant operations teams, communicating to clients.
• Commercials: Ownership of the commercial target and forecasts, handling renewals and team pipeline.

• Team: Developing and mentoring a group of dedicated and passionate individuals, driving engagement, and encouraging a culture of learning and collaboration.
• Thought leadership: Working with the rest of the team to produce regular thought provoking and enlightening pieces in a variety of formats as require e.g. PowerPoint, webinar, podcast

Key Capabilities

• Proven experience in consumer insights or market research roles (either agency or client side).
• A strong people focus with experience of motivating & leading teams towards a shared vision.
• Proven commercial track record of revenue management & delivering client growth.
• Confident, with the ability to deliver presentations and express an opinion to senior internal and external audiences with credibility.

• Experience of delivering service excellence to clients both personally & through others.
• The skills to create and deliver compelling presentations – demonstrating your commercial astuteness with insight and recommendations.
• Willing to embrace, drive and suggest change.

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Country United Kingdom Location London, Westgate 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.