Vice President, Client Leadership

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Kantar, LLC

Job Title: Vice President, Client Leadership

Location: New York, NY

Duties: Provide guidance to project teams within an office, including resource management across the team and responsible for inspiring the team and building culture. Develop team to provide exceptional consultation and develop strategic initiatives to deliver profitable growth across team. Help define strategy, goals, and objectives for quantitative research studies for assigned accounts, as well as partner with New Business on new opportunities. Build relationships with senior client stakeholders and lead client discussions, as well as act as thought leader to clients showing how business outcomes are achieved via our offer. Conduct strategic account planning and execution for accounts. Translate data into insights that address key client business issues and present these insights to the client in a straight-forward manner. Monitor and deliver against specific account revenue targets, as well as plan and forecast future revenue across client accounts. Little domestic travel for global workshops and international travel for client meetings

Work Schedule: 8:30am to 5:30pm.

Minimum education required: Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related social sciences field.

Minimum experience required: 7 years of experience in market research and advertising role.

Skills required: Must have 6 years experience with each: Market research across beverages, personal care, travel, tourism and/or utilities industries and sectors; developing, presenting, and defending client proposals, pitch documents, and sales materials to commercialize offers and improve new business win rates; operating in multi-layered international matrix organization to facilitate change across various teams within North America and globally; and designing, implementing, executing, and presenting brand guidance programs. Must have 3 years experience with each: Using specialized data analysis software, including Excel, Survey Reporter and/or SPSS; training, coaching, and mentoring teams on new approaches and analytical concepts; and distilling insights from large datasets and communicating in a visually impactful format. Must have 2 years experience with each: Selling new programs and concepts to clients to implement new approaches and tools; financial and commercial planning to improve commercial success; and using AI driven analytics platform to help develop the platform and sell to clients.

Salary: $145,392 to $200,900. Final base salary will be determined based on several factors which may include but are not limited to location, work experience, skills, knowledge, education and/or certifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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 wellbeing 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.

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status or any other legally protected characteristics.

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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 by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

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 that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and 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.