Senior Associate

SENIOR ASSOCIATE (QUANTITATIVE)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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

The primary responsibility for this role is to provide day to day support to Directors and Senior Managers across a range of accounts and create meaningful impact to our client’s businesses. Senior Associate supports the BU's goals by delighting clients with great work, developing the team capabilities and ensuring efficient delivery. As a key interface between the organization and our clients, the role includes client engagement, consultancy, study design and analysis, driving preparation of presentations and reports as well as internal responsibilities such as project management, and coaching juniors on tasks specific to the accounts.

Role Description

• Manage accounts to ensure as a team all account deliverables are met
• Accountable for the accurate and timely delivery of account outputs including data tables, KPIs, presentations, reports and workshops – balancing own analysis and creation of deliverables with delegating within the team
• Support development and implementation of appropriate solutions to drive meaningful insight for clients’ needs and their business
• Develop in-depth knowledge and understanding of your clients and their business in all interactions with clients, and deliverables and analysis conducted for them
• Conducts research in compliance with the ISO 20252 standard, as represented in the Company’s Quality Manual and supporting procedures

Role Requirements

• Educated to a degree level, preferable in Marketing or Business
• With at least 3 years of proven experience in Market Research agency or Consumer Insights
• Experienced in using explorative and quantitative research methods to gather insights
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills – writing proposals and presentations that are engaging and insightful
• Excellent organizational skills, time management/the ability to manage multiple projects at once and meet deadlines
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to lead and motivate people and promote team spirit
• Positive and flexible attitude, open to create, explore new topics and approaches

Benefits of working at Kantar Insights Malaysia

• Growth opportunity: fast career progression – you track your own career journey!

• Yearly performance bonus, Life & Medical Insurance, Flexi Benefit, Birthday Leave

• Heavy investment in learning & development: On the job learning, Mentoring, Knowledge Hub

• Hybrid working system, flexible working hours

• Inclusive & diverse, multicultural team, open and transparent culture, non-hierarchical

• Career Development Opportunities across different domains: Innovation & PD, Brand & Shopper, Customer Strategies, Qualitative, Advertising, Media & Digital.

• Opportunity to work with Fortune 500 companies, SMEs, government bodies, media owners and NGOs.

• International transfer opportunities for high performing individuals

What part of Kantar might I be joining?

You’ll be joining our Insights division, 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. By blending human insights expertise with the latest technology advances, Insights make sure we can deliver innovative information to brands everywhere.

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 if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.

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 works for them. 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 is an equal opportunities provider

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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.