Senior Research Executive, Brand

Our Brand team at Kantar in Dubai is looking for a passionate Senior Research Executive to join us in delivering excellence to our clients.

About the role:

As a Senior Research Executive at Kantar, you will manage the full cycle of your research projects, both internally and externally with clients.

We ultimately aim to grow our clients’ businesses, through developing a deep understanding of their brands, through unpacking the impact of their marketing activities against their strategies, and identifying potential growth opportunities for their brands.

If you are passionate about marketing, brands, data, and research, and you already have client-facing market research experience, then this might be the role for you!

What you'll be doing:

• Managing the full end-to-end research project, considering internal and external timelines.

• Designing questionnaires, analysing complex research data, online script checking.

• Data checking and additional Data analysis development using RFS/SPSS platform.

• Sending out project debriefs to clients and applying feedback for future projects.

• Handling simple client project queries regarding delivery related issues.

• Creating Central Business and Research Question - and let this inform and guide analysis and presentation process.

• Setting up brainstorms: Proposal, Questionnaire design, Analysis plan & Data Processing Specs, Telling the story with data.

• Building and managing relationships across internal stakeholders eg. Project management team.

• Ensuring operational efficiency on projects and putting plans into place for improvement we relevant.

The skills & experience you'll need:

Minimum of 3 years of Quantitative Research experience in a client-facing role. Experience in Brand Health Research is a plus.

• Quantitative research:
  Proven experience writing research proposals, designing questionnaires, preparing and delivering client presentations with minimal input from seniors, analyzing complex research data to generate insights tailored to client needs.
   

• Project management:
  Proven experience managing and overseeing end-to-end research projects throughout the full cycle, from proposal/intake to delivery.
   

• Client management:
  Proven experience building strong and long-lasting client relations through day-to-day communication.

The behavioral dimensions we're looking for:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

• Strong ability to multi-task and proactively anticipate on client needs.

• Strong ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced and deadline oriented team.

• Accountable team member with a strong sense of responsibility.

• Strategic and critical thinking ability.

• Strong ability to build long-term client relations by developing a thorough understanding of their business needs.

• Understanding of practical applications in the context of real life marketing problems.

• Motivation and drive.

Why join Kantar?

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.

Is this you?

Send us your application including CV today!

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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.