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Our Insights colleagues are the masters of using data to resolve challenges. They help brands define what they should stand for, how to reinvent and renew their offer, how to better reach audiences, and how to win with consumers and customers. By collecting substantial data from across the world, they blend human expertise with technology, making sure we can deliver innovative insights to brands everywhere.

Job Title

Research Executive – Offshore Media Insights Team (Manila, Philippines)

Role Overview

As a Research Executive for the Media Insights Team, you will play a key role in delivering media effectiveness projects for media owners, agencies, and advertisers across Australia.

The Project Executives primary responsibility is to work with the Account Managers and Directors to manage and deliver media projects to clients. The role is focused on account administration, project co-ordination, survey writing, script checking, fieldwork launching and monitoring in addition to analysis of research data and data checking to deliver impactful media studies.

You’ll work closely with the Australian Media team and collaborate with onshore teams to ensure alignment, accuracy, and efficiency in delivery. You will model being an indispensable brand partner to our Media clients and Australian client-facing teams, driving a highly collaborative culture of winning together.

To succeed in this role, you will be passionate about

• Understanding and growing clients businesses through research and recommendation
• Integrating media and digital practices into the broader client service offering

Job Goals

• Support the coordination and execution of Australia campaign effectiveness studies (e.g., brand lift, CrossMedia, in‑context testing) across all project stages.
• Manage day‑to‑day project tasks, including scheduling, documentation, and tracking progress to ensure timely and accurate delivery.
• Handle key operational elements, such as checking scripts, monitoring fieldwork, reviewing data tables and dashboards, and preparing report components.
• Ensure high levels of accuracy and consistency in all deliverables in line with internal quality standards.
• Contribute to client presentations by preparing materials and supporting senior team members during delivery.
• Review deliverables against research objectives and flag any discrepancies or optimisation opportunities to senior researchers.
• Follow ISO 20252 and internal quality procedures, maintaining correct documentation and compliance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support strong team performance by collaborating effectively and contributing to positive client experiences

Role Requirements & Capabilities

• Educated to degree level, ideally majoring in Communications, Marketing, Media, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Psychology, Sociology, Management or a related discipline.
• 1–2 years’ experience in a research agency, media agency, media vendor or technology environment, with exposure to campaign measurement or media analytics.
• Understanding of media research or measurement is desired (e.g., brand lift, attribution, CrossMedia, or in‑context testing) with a willingness to deepen expertise.
• Strong analytical skills, including attention to detail, comfort working with data, and a commitment to data accuracy and consistency.
• Proactive problem‑solver who can identify issues early and escalate appropriately.
• Demonstrates intellectual and professional integrity, acting with accountability and reliability in all tasks.
• Adaptable and flexible and able to manage competing demands.
• Strong internal stakeholder management, able to coordinate with senior researchers, operations, project managers, and commercial teams.
• Excellent written and verbal (English) communication skills
• Technically curious, with an interest in learning new platforms and tools (e.g., survey scripting, dashboarding tools, or data processing workflows).
• Collaborative team contributor, willing to assist colleagues, share knowledge, and support overall team delivery.
• Organised and process‑driven, with a commitment to following quality frameworks such as ISO 20252 and internal SOPs.

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

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

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