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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. 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. ROLE DESCRIPTION: - We are looking for ambitious, energetic and experienced research professionals who are looking to further their career in the Consumer Insights function. You will join us with a focus on a specific area of expertise (Brand Guidance, Innovation, Segmentation, Custom Research) and drive excellence, efficiency and thought leadership to ultimately drive impactful insights for our clients & help elevate internal capabilities. The AM/SAM is a part of the Client Service team who would serve as an intermediary between the business and its clients, with responsibility for revenue & margin assurance & appropriate high levels of service to those clients. As a researcher, you will constantly provide sophisticated solutions to our clients, applying the highest standards of innovative, quantitative market research tools.

Designation: Account Manager/ Senior Account Manager

Location– Kolkata/ Gurgaon/ Bangalore/ Mumbai

Experience
 4-8 years of experience in quantitative consumer insights

Qualification
 Master’s/Post Graduate Degree

ROLE REQUIREMENT: -
 Proven knowledge of market research: consumer research/brand research & retail research, specifically product testing, U&A, and pricing projects, especially in FMCG/ Consumer durables
 Experience in quantitative research techniques & tools like questionnaire / research design / preparing a research execution plan etc.
 Proven skills in team management and leadership
 Background and experience in P&L management
 Demonstrated ability to build strong client relationships
 Strong analytical, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES: -
 Developing & maintaining relationships with their identified clients, ensuring that their needs are being met and that they are receiving appropriate levels of service, in collaboration with the HCS / GAD on those accounts
 Owning the management of revenue budgets set for those clients in close collaboration with the HCS / GAD
 Developing individual job costs, monitoring job costs throughout a project, and ensuring profitability
 Identifying & developing new business opportunities amongst existing clients and outside the existing client base with guidance from HCS / GAD
 Management of staff in his/her team, training and career development of staff, annual evaluations, identifying their needs and providing coaching, and monitoring of the progress of staff under their management
 Leading the national special projects for cascade across the entire office.
 Designing and executing high-quality research using the right tools and techniques to address client needs
 Making presentations to senior / top management of reputed companies to come out with strategic analysis and recommendations and so, being conversant with the happenings in the economy, in general, and with respect to the sectors mentioned above
 Ensuring solutions to the queries and managing client and internal stakeholder’s expectations to ensure adequate work-life balance for the team

JOIN US 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 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.

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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.