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Consultant, Brand Guidance

Singapore

Purpose:

Are you curious and enthusiastic about brands? Do you want to learn how to build iconic brands that achieve financial growth in the market? Do you want to know how advertising, media and everything that a brand does impact purchase? Why do people love some brands and not others?

This is an exciting opportunity join the Brand Guidance domain in Insights Division, Kantar Singapore. You will be working with a team of hardworking brand builders to build meaningful impact on our client’s businesses. You will own an impactful team to deliver successful Brand Growth Programs and connecting various data sources to deliver meaningful insights and stories. As a key interface between Kantar and our clients, the role includes client engagement, consultancy, study design and analysis, driving preparation of presentations and reports.

You will be leading a small team of two to four team members who will support your operational and storytelling excellence. As an emerging leader, you will get to hone your leadership skills by learning how to elevate the skills of your team members, handle resources effectively and develop the careers of your line reports. You will also support the implementation of broader business initiatives sought at transforming the way we work and deepening the validated experience of the wider Brand Guidance team.

If you have a curiosity about understanding brands and encouraging growth in people and businesses, this is the role for you! Get in touch with us now.

The Role:

• Project & Account Management
  • Effectively lead and supervise junior team to ensure multiple project & account results are met. Results including questionnaires, data, dashboards and reports.
  • Maximise account efficiency by:
    • Reviewing, improving, streamlining & automating processes without compromising quality
    • Resourcing and planning project timelines to meet client objectives within budgets
  • Cultivate good relationships with onshore and offshore teams and provide constructive feedback to improve speed of delivery
  • Ensure Finance processes (client contracts, PO and billing) are followed through for all projects

• Analysis and Insights Expertise
  • Understand and synthesise data from various sources (e.g. sales data, media spend data), and using on analytics where needed
  • Articulate insights clearly and impact-fully with clear and concise implications that will help clients make better decisions
  • Demonstrate knowledge of Kantar’s brand philosophies and apply these appropriately to the design & analysis, so as to drive significant insight for clients’ needs and their business
  • Find opportunities to deepen insights for clients using further analysis including case studies and meta findings as appropriate

• Client Management and Consultancy
  • Building strong relationships with key client collaborators
  • Develop in-depth knowledge and understanding of your clients and their business objectives to offer advice and support
  • Leading client discussions at briefings, regular project meetings and presentations
  • Present confidently and impact-fully in client presentations
  • Provide a point of view on specific client issues aligned with brand philosophies
  • Develop and implement account management plans for key clients with support from Directors
  • Conduct and create impact reviews for all presentations

• People Management & Development
  • Handle and develop an impactful and engaged team of 2-4 team members
  • Work with line reports to identify and set clear objectives to develop and further their careers
  • Participate in the training of more junior team members as appropriate
  • Complete all Performance Appraisals Process responsibilities on time

• Business Development
  • Identify and pursue opportunities to grow existing client business, revenue and profitability
  • Respond to new business opportunities by understanding the brief and preparing proposals
  • Review account and project profitability to understand opportunities to increase financial performance for future projects
  • Ensure that Direct Costs are within the budget

Key relationships:

• Your Business Unit Leader: Client Partner
  • They will be responsible for developing your research, brand & commercial foresight to support client consultations and team development. In turn, you are accountable for delighting clients and driving account profitability through excellence in operations and insights delivery.

• Your Domain Leader: Head of Brand Guidance:
  • The Domain leader will support you in understanding and implementing the Kantar offer, frameworks and protocols to reflect the best of our expertise. You will be responsible for staying connected to the internal teams on your accounts and ensure our projects reflect the best client & domain practices globally.

• Your Team: Analysts and Associates
  • Effectively distribute tasks and responsibilities, while supporting any obstacles in project execution with project management teams. Handle the growth of juniors your team through regular career conversations with support from your Business Unit Leader.

• Your Clients: Insights and Marketing teams at client organizations
  • Discover and understand the client’s brand & business challenges, and deliver compelling data stories to help their brands achieve financial growth. Lead client induction webinars to embed Kantar’s brand philosophy into their organisations

Skills & Experience Required:

• Desire to work in an ambitious, fast-paced, and changing environment
• Consistent track record to run multiple workstreams and projects at the same time
• Critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Has a passion for discovering stories and patterns hidden in data sets
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships with collaborators of all levels
• At least one year of experience in people management is an advantage

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.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire 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 create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is an equal opportunities employer.

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Location

Singapore, Scotts RoadSingapore

Kantar Rewards Statement

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. 

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire 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 create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration. 

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes. 

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 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.