Director, Research - Chicago, United States - Kantar

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Job Title: Director, Research & Insights

Location: Fully Remote or Hybrid – NYC, Boston, Norwalk, CT, Chicago

Job Details

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 based in more than 100 countries help the world's leading organizations succeed and grow. Nobody knows people better than Kantar. We provide insight and inspiration to help our clients, our people and society to create and flourish in an extraordinary world.

Our consulting colleagues are growth experts. They are specialists in brand and marketing, retail and sales, e-commerce, and organizational excellence. The combination of industry intelligence, data, and advanced marketing technology results in solutions that switch on real growth.

Kantar's Retail, Sales & Shopper Practice helps leading retailers and brand manufacturers transform data and insights into growth strategies. We provide specialist insight, proprietary research, and data analytics to deliver actionable solutions. Join us and you'll be part of a world-leading research, data, and insights provider.

Role Description

Kantar Consulting Retail, Sales & Shopper is seeking a Director of Research for our Retail Advisory Delivery team. This individual will be primarily responsible for research design, analysis, and project oversight/execution for our Retail Advisory practice, providing strategic guidance and delivering custom research with our consultant-client leads. This role will have a high level of one-on-one client and internal team collaboration and interaction.

As Director Research & Insights, you will be responsible for:

Client Leadership: In partnership with Advisory consultants, help foster relationships, becoming a trusted resource to key client contacts by demonstrating Kantar's capabilities to help solve their issues.

Offer/Study Strategy:Understand client issues and apply Kantar's shown research approaches to address their business questions.

Execution: Lead projects using various internal/external resources and primary and secondary data and information to provide customized solutions for our clients in a high-quality, timely fashion. Directly deliver client work on projects through an ability to analyze data and develop client-facing material that leads to strong insights and actionable outcomes.

Effective Communication: Use effective communication skills in-person, over the phone, and via email with internal and external clients. Develop an approach/system for communicating key project considerations with team members. Ensure project timelines & deliverables are met and key client questions are answered.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop research study designs to address key business questions by implementing qualitative and quantitative research approaches to drive actionable insights and client implications.
• Partner closely with Kantar Consultants and Advisory Delivery team and other internal teams (i.e., Shopper & Category Insights, Creative Services) to work collaboratively and deliver the combined power of Kantar to solve client business issues.
• Lead research project delivery including launch, timelines, budgets, sample, status, and problem-solving calls with vendors and internal teams.
• Communicate with vendors and customers to set expectations for design, fieldwork, and delivery to meet final data availability dates for clients.
• Communicate project status to the internal team regularly, proactively identifying any threats to project timeline or budget.
• Support selling efforts of research via helping with scoping, and answering client questions.
• Lead all aspects of the logistics and coordination of research, providing direction throughout the life cycle of a project (programming/scripting, data collection/fieldwork, data processing, etc.)
• Conduct secondary research.
• Leverage story-telling skills (integrating multiple data sources including qual/quant results, secondary data sources, trend information, and data analytics) to prepare highly polished presentations that deliver insightful, strategic, and actionable insights.

Success Profile

• The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience with primary shopper/consumer research.
• Passion for solving business questions, strong knowledge, and experience analyzing a wide variety of data types.
• A robust knowledge of primary shopper/consumer research (including both qualitative and quantitative research) and a strong level of comfort in conducting analyses that vary greatly in complexity.
• Shown experience in using data inputs to develop compelling, strategic narratives.
• Ability to synthesize information from multiple sources into high-impact insights and recommendations.
• Experience in behavioral data analysis (using secondary data resources such as syndicated or panel data) is desirable but not mandatory.
• Past experience demonstrating a strong competency in supporting/handling client relationships, with a track record of strong client satisfaction.
• BS/BA Degree, preferably in business, marketing, or social sciences
• Excellent project and time management skills. Candidate must be very well-organized, and able to work well in a fast-paced environment simultaneously juggling multiple projects, deliverables, and deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to mentor and support more junior team members
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite of products, particularly PowerPoint and Excel. Experience with SPSS and other data analysis tools is a plus, as is being comfortable with trying new software platforms such as video editing, databases, or other data analysis tools.

Kantar Benefits

We provide a comprehensive, highly competitive benefits package, including

• Medical plans with comprehensive, affordable coverage for a range of health services
• Health Savings Account/FSA
• Dental, Vision and benefits to cover unique healthcare needs
• Wellness Program
• 401k with match
• Tuition Reimbursement, Commuter benefits
• Unlimited PTO

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.

The salary range for this role in Chicago is 113, ,000.00 USD Annual. Your 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.

Privacy and Legal Statement

Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited ("Kantar"). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.

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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.