- Job Title: Associate Vice President / Vice President
- Location: Gurgaon
- Experience: 12-18 yearsWhat you'll be doing
- Lead and grow a portfolio of consumer insights and market research clients, ensuring strong commercial performance and sustainable profitability.
- Build and maintain senior-level client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor and strategic partner.
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality research, actionable insights, and exceptional client experiences.
- Drive business growth by identifying opportunities within existing accounts and developing new client relationships.
- Own and manage revenue targets, profitability objectives, forecasting, and overall financial performance of the business unit.
- Provide inspirational leadership, coaching, and direction to a team of research and client service professionals.
- Lead talent acquisition, capability development, performance management, succession planning, and career progression initiatives.
- Review and provide strategic oversight on research proposals, project design, presentations, and client recommendations.
- Champion innovation by introducing new thinking, methodologies, and approaches that enhance client value and business efficiency.
- Ensure adherence to company policies, research standards, quality processes, and governance requirements.
- Represent Kantar at industry forums, client engagements, conferences, and professional events.
- Collaborate closely with senior leadership to contribute to business strategy, operational excellence, and organisational growth.
- Support cross-functional initiatives that strengthen Kantar’s market position and client impact.
- Significant experience in consumer insights, market research, or consulting, with a proven track record of leading large client portfolios.
- Strong understanding of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and their commercial application.
- Demonstrated success in managing profit and loss (P&L) responsibilities and delivering revenue growth.
- Proven ability to develop long-term client relationships and influence senior stakeholders.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience identifying and converting business development opportunities.
- Established leadership experience, including building, coaching, and developing high-performing teams.
- Excellent project oversight and quality management skills.
- Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent command of written and spoken English.
- Experience working with multinational clients and complex business environments is desirable.
- Opportunity to lead strategic consumer insight programmes for some of the world's most recognised brands.
- A highly visible leadership role with significant commercial influence and impact.
- Exposure to diverse industries, business challenges, and innovative research solutions.
- A collaborative and inclusive culture that encourages innovation and continuous learning.
- Access to global expertise, tools, methodologies, and career development opportunities.
- The chance to shape the future of consumer understanding across South Asia and contribute to Kantar's continued growth.
Location
Gurgaon, DLF Cyber ParkIndiaKantar 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.
Skills Required
- 12-18 years experience in consumer insights, market research, or consulting
- Strong understanding of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
- Proven track record of leading large client portfolios and developing senior client relationships
- Experience managing profit and loss (P&L) responsibilities and delivering revenue growth
- Strong commercial acumen and business development experience
- Established leadership experience including building, coaching and developing teams
- Excellent project oversight, quality management, strategic thinking and decision-making skills
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills; excellent command of written and spoken English
- Experience working with multinational clients and complex business environments
What We Do
Kantar is the world’s leading marketing data and analytics company. . We have a complete, unique and rounded understanding of how people think, feel and act; globally and locally in over 90 markets. By combining the deep expertise of our people, our data resources and benchmarks and our innovative analytics and technology, we help our clients understand people and inspire growth.
