Research Manager

Kantar is the world's leading marketing data, insights and consulting company, helping organisations understand people and inspire growth. In the UK, we partner with some of the world's most recognised brands, combining deep human understanding with advanced analytics, technology and AI to solve their most important business challenges. Our teams work across Brand, Creative, Innovation, Media and Customer Experience, delivering insight that helps clients make confident decisions and achieve sustainable growth. We bring together a diverse range of expertise, perspectives and capabilities, creating an environment where collaboration, curiosity and continuous learning thrive.

The Role

Our Research Managers partner with some of the world's leading brands, delivering insight, consultancy and strategic recommendations that drive business growth. They build trusted client relationships, lead research programmes and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to solve complex business challenges.

Using industry-leading methodologies, analytical techniques and tools, Research Managers help clients make confident decisions across areas such as brand, communications, creative and innovation. As a Research Manager, you will lead projects from brief through to insight delivery, ensuring an exceptional client experience while contributing to business growth. You'll also champion the Kantar strategy, embracing a future-focused mindset and leveraging AI, technology and automation to enhance efficiency, strengthen insight generation and improve client outcomes.

What We're Looking For

• Strong experience in quantitative research and insights, within one or more of the following areas:  Brand, Creative and Innovation
• Proven ability to manage client relationships and deliver high-quality research and insight projects.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders.
• Analytical and commercially minded, with a talent for turning data into actionable recommendations.
• Strong project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Collaborative and adaptable, with experience working effectively across teams.
• Curious, proactive and committed to continuous learning and development.
• Experience coaching or supporting the development of others is desirable.

Key Responsibilities

• Build strong client relationships and deliver insight-led solutions that drive business growth.
• Lead research projects from brief to delivery, ensuring high-quality outputs and an exceptional client experience.
• Turn data into clear, compelling and commercially relevant insights and recommendations.
• Embrace AI, technology and automation to improve efficiency, insight generation and client outcomes.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, contributing to a high-performing and supportive culture.
• Support the development of junior colleagues through coaching and knowledge sharing.
• Demonstrate commercial awareness, curiosity and a proactive approach to solving client challenges.
• Champion continuous learning and role model the behaviours that support Kantar's strategy, culture and commitment to innovation.

Why Join Kantar UK?

Joining Kantar means becoming part of a business that is shaping the future of insights. You'll work alongside talented colleagues, contribute to high-profile client partnerships and have opportunities to develop expertise across a range of solutions and industries. We encourage innovation, embrace new technologies and invest in our people's growth. Whether you're delivering breakthrough insights, building client relationships or exploring new ways of working with AI and automation, you'll play a role in helping clients and Kantar succeed.

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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.