Do you want the opportunity to work in partnership with a client who loves collaborating with their Kantar team? A role with Nestle does exactly that! This is a chance to build on the existing strong relationships to provide new insight to some of their most important brands.

As a Consumer Insight Director, you will lead the relationship with the Nestle Coffee division, an area of strategic importance to them. Nestle are one of the best and most valued partners of Kantar, and you will take an important role in continuing to grow this, building key senior relationships and looking for ways we can support with their strategic priorities.

It’s a great time to be part of the team. Kantar’s insights are embedded in all they do, so it will be down to you to bring the data to life in their business. There will be fantastic opportunities to regularly visit their offices, present back to the wider team and work with a range of stakeholders on projects that make a real difference. With an exciting mix of brands and ambitious plans for growth, there’s a great variety in the work and genuine opportunities to influence their strategic direction.

You’ll be part of a great team of 12 dedicated to the Nestle account, with responsibility to support junior team members, and a close working relationship with the SID and BUDs to allow you to influence the team direction. There will also be plenty of opportunities to work with Usage, OOH and Analytics teams to ensure they get the best, and most interesting, insight possible.
 

The Role

• Senior Client lead: As the senior contact with one of their most important divisions, you'll set an example to the team by leading senior client relationships, building new ones, and ensuring the highest level of client servicing and account planning.
• Insight: Producing and communicating high-quality insight. Deliver best in class presentations to wide audiences, integrating the best of Kantar insight and working closely with Circana to drive true consumer insight.
• Team: Develop analytical and client service skills of more junior members of the team. You will build your experience as a mentor for others, playing a pivotal role in setting the strong culture within the broader team.
• Revenue: Responsibility for driving ad-hoc revenue growth with your Nestle divisions and engagement with the wider team targets. Be able to match Nestle’s big questions with the best solutions we have to help.
• MyWorldpanel: Nestle divisions are going through launch, so it’s a key time to help them maximise the potential of the platform so will need to be guided by you as to how they realise these ambitions within the capabilities of the tool.
• Service development: Contributing ideas for improving our service and working with other senior members of the team to plan how we bring these to clients, communicating with key internal collaborators and clients as necessary.
   

Person Specification

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to put together insightful and impactful presentations, combining data sources and working alongside others in doing so.
• Able to build and maintain fantastic client relationships, encouraging trust and confidence.
• Commercially strong and able to spot ways for us to help our clients in new ways.
• A desire to support individuals’ development and well-being with the ability to manage team workloads and anticipate client demands.
• Confident and experienced presenter who can present to a variety of client seniority levels.
• Good attention to detail, strong organisation and time leadership skills.
• Strong in using our software and tools, particularly MyWorldpanel
   

Kantar Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (excl. bank holidays), plus your birthday off!
• Performance-related Sales Commission scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Flexible benefits across health, wealth, and lifestyle.
• Extensive training and excellent scope for career development.
• A collaborative and supportive work environment.
   

What you’ll get from us

• 25 days annual leave (excl. bank holidays), plus your birthday off!
• Performance-related Sales Commission scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Flexible benefits across health, wealth, and lifestyle.
• Extensive training and excellent scope for career development.
• A collaborative and supportive work environment.
   

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.

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