Lead, Analytics

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Job Details

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

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

Lead, Analytics

Location

Tokyo, Japan (#LI-Hybrid)

Role Overview
Kantar Analytics has experienced rapid growth by expanding our offer to be data agnostic, demonstrating survey, sales, media, customer, and unstructured data sources, and consulting directly with clients about how to get the most out of their data and the tools and models we develop on their behalf.

Your main focus will be on understanding and promoting Kantar Analytics solutions to both existing and new clients. This is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to the growth of our company and shape the future of analytics in Japan.

Role Description
     

【External : 70%】

• Guide/Lead the Analytics Practice in Kantar Japan. Articulate an excellent understanding of each Analytics product and solution at Kantar, and how the data can be used to improve performance/grow clients’ business, thus design/create and deliver outstanding client presentations that inspire confidence and credibility of Kantar Analytics solution
• Liaise with clients to ensure proper briefing and de-briefing of studies involving Analytics methods
• Partner with client teams and the Commercial Director to support strategic plans for key accounts
• -  Act as an external analytic advocate, working with extended client teams to understand, leverage, and spread the use of Analytics throughout clients’ organizations

【Internal : 30%】

• This is stand-alone role without team members
• Share the updates of analytics solutions, and train and supervise CS team members in Kantar Japan as they can work with analytics solutions
• Act as an internal analytics champion, collaborating with internal Kantar Analytics partners and the team to coordinate efforts for clients
   

【Analytics Areas to cover】

• Customer Analytics
• UMMO (Unified Marketing Measurement and Optimisation)
• Custom ROI / Consumer Analytics
• Digital Analytics
• Data Strategy & Engineering

Role requirements

【Must】

• A degree or equivalent experience in mathematics, statistics, marketing
• 10+ years of proven, successful, direct client consulting experience, and experience delivering analytics projects with a recent or previous background in emerging analytics capabilities in price, portfolio, and/or innovation
• Experience presenting analytic solutions across various industries
• Actively gain, maintain and grow clients’ trust/credibility by applying excellent presentation experience and ability to command a presence in the room with decision-makers in client’s organization
• Fluent both in Japanese and in English

【Want】

• Desire to challenge the status quo, able to see new ways of doing things and develop action plans to inspire change and achieve strategic goals

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.

Privacy and Legal Statement

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.

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Location

Tokyo, Shinjuku Maynds TowerJapan

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.