Vice President, Product and Solutions - New York, United States - Kantar

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Kantar, the worlds leading marketing data and analytics 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. Kantars?25,000 people based in more than 100 countries help the worlds 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.

Job Title: Vice President, Product and Solutions

Job Location: Remote (USA)

You will be part of the Product Leadership function and will assist the Global Media Product Lead and will be a significant contributor to the progress of our flagship Brand Lift Insights product suite. In this role, you will implement the global product roadmap and guide a cross functional team charged with delivering product support and developing improvements/new features. You will define the multi-year case, market requirements, and success metrics for your products, and serve as internal champion to secure cross-functional management and executive support for assigned product initiatives. You would possess an outstanding blend of business and technical savvy, and the flexibility to move between tactical program management and strategic vision. You enjoy spending time in the market with clients to understand their needs, as well as working with internal partners to translate those needs into actionable technical specifications and, ultimately, into real-world solutions for our clients.

What You Will Do:

• Own the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical support and development - and ensuring a clear positioning of your product within the broader Kantar portfolio
• Drive product development efforts by collecting strategic and tactical feature requests, writing requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria and nurture them into release cycles.
• Manage LIFT+ analytical solution that includes AI predictive features
• Specify market requirements for current and future products by conducting in-market research with clients and gathering on-going input from client facing colleagues.
• Collaborate with Technology, Operations and Solution Delivery to define, document and communicate processes to identify, prioritize and resolve day-to-day product-related issues.
• Become the company authority on Brand Lift Insights 'LIFT' in terms of how clients buy and use the products, buying criteria and market forces.
• Partner with Product Marketing to ensure insights are included in LIFT positioning and externally facing collateral.
• Develop and implement company-wide go-to-market plans for new LIFT products and significant improvement to the existing product, working with Product Marketing and Client Service/Sales counterparts to package, price and commercialize the BLI offer in multiple global markets.
• Conduct competitive analysis and evaluate potential partner relationships for the product.
• Lead and inspire team members to launch product enhancements. Supervise product initiatives from other team members and provide senior level guidance.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in analytical field required, Masters is helpful
• Ideally, 7-10 years of product management experience and some hands-on product/software development experience preferably in the digital marketing/media research space.
• Ideally, 5+ years experience in media measurement product management.
• Ideally, 5+ years experience managing a team of product professionals.
• Knowledgeable in Product Management methodologies {i.e. Agile, Waterfall} and familiar with supporting applications like Aha, JIRA etc.
• Outstanding project management and time leadership skills -- Proven track record to run multiple activities simultaneously, prioritizing tasks to meet goals
• Strong interpersonal skillsable to build and maintain strong positive internal and external relationships
• Attention to detail and a drive for accuracy and timeliness
• Independent worker who can manage product launches start to finish.
• This position occasionally requires some travel to customer and non-customer sites in North America and abroad (<15%).
• 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 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

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. Were 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 youre not an exact match, wed love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

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PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: 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

The salary range for this role in New York is 136, ,300.00 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.

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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 thats 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 worlds 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, Kantars 30,000 people help the worlds leading organisations succeed and grow.