Global Project Manager – Product & Solutions

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Worldpanel provides brands and retailers with a unique, 360-degree understanding of consumer behaviour across the globe. We are shopper-centric, continuously monitoring the purchase and usage behaviour through the largest omnipanel in the world. With unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology and expert analysts, we partner with brands and retailers of all sizes, empowering them to reimagine what’s possible, and change the landscape to create a better, healthier, more sustainable and inclusive world.

Job Details

Kantar Worldpanel is looking for a Global Project Manager to join the Product & Solutions team, is an incredible opportunity to be part of a global business transformation towards our exciting vision for the future. This individual will lead the planning and delivery of global projects alongside a cross-functional team and stakeholders, building a career path in a modern, truly global, project-setup environment.

If you’re looking for a chance to apply your knowledge and experience into making a difference and push colleagues from all around the world to achieve our shared goals – you’re the type of candidate we’re looking for.
 

What does success look like in this role?

• Collaborate with impact as a trusted partner to Product, Operations, Technology and Commercial teams, by understanding their interdependencies and ensure alignment on business needs.
• Define and implement a clear governance model for collaboration with the teams, that increases the value of the outcome while keeping the process and paperwork as light as possible.
• Plan projects and drive progress and communication to ensure that scope, budget and timelines are successfully achieved.
• Define and manage appropriate metrics and KPIs to effectively monitor and report on progress to project teams and senior stakeholders.
• Manage constraints and risks with appropriate mitigations to ensure projects are driven with maximum effectiveness to deliver the defined outcomes.
• Proactively make recommendations to ensure project business outcomes are achieved.
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies and tools to expand and mature these capabilities for the wider organization.
   

Key Capabilities

Your background will ideally look like this…

• Relevant successful experience in project management, in an international environment, and having developed solid working relationships.
• Possesses full business proficiency in English (C1 Level Minimum).
• Shows interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, enhance performance within a cross-functional matrix environment by collaborating across multiple areas to achieve a common business objective.
• Ability to understand the business and strategic goals in relation to the managed projects and apply that understanding to drive project outcomes.
   

With the following qualities…

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enjoy working in teams and in multicultural environment.
• Proactive, optimistic, and willing to get involved to achieve the team's goals and objectives.
• Inquisitive, with critical thinking, actively looking for new and more efficient ways of improving processes, raising standards, reducing errors, and overcoming omissions.
• Ability to handle several tasks/assignments simultaneously and maintain flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.
• Highly collaborative and adaptable with the ability to work effectively within different cultural and technical environments.
• Energy and outcome focused on moving things forward.
• Capacity to work with autonomy, self-organized, and rigorous with deadlines to self and others.
   

The following, although not mandatory, will be appreciated…

• Experience in large scale business transformation programmes.
• Demonstrable project management experience of shaping and delivering multi-regional projects.
• Previous experience working within a multicultural business environment and developing solid working relationships with clients and colleagues from different countries and cultures.
• Domain of any other language besides English.
• Has obtained at least one of the following certifications: Prince2 Practitioner or PMI-CAPM (PMP) or Scrum/Agile equivalent.
   

Key stakeholders

• Head of Project Management in Product & Solutions – the person that will work closest to you in introducing the projects and initiatives and structuring each operating model.
• Product & Solutions Leadership Team –key Product / Solutions leads and representatives for each initiative, and whom with your work you will be supporting in first place.
• Executive level (CPO, CTO, COO, CCO, Regional MDs) – sponsors of the projects, ultimate decision makers.
• Technology, Operations, Commercial teams – partners to deliver the projects, colleagues with whom we work very close to. Often have correspondent Project Managers to cover their specific areas and with whom you with work in close collaboration.
• Markets representatives – hold the specific knowledge of their markets, depending on the role and seniority they can be members of Steering Committees, leads of particular processes or business experts.
   

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.
 

Kantar benefits

• Option of flexible hybrid working
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance
• Eyecare Vouchers
• Life Assurance & Income Protection
• Cycle to Work Scheme
   

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 encourage 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 build 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 varied community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
 

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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.