Senior Client Director

Kantar; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Client Director to drive brand strategy and client relationships. This role involves blending data sources to provide strategic insights and recommendations to top-tier clients across various sectors. The successful candidate will lead a talented team, fostering a culture of growth and collaboration while managing significant client accounts. This dynamic position offers excellent career development opportunities within a supportive environment that values inclusivity and innovation. If you are passionate about brand development and strategic consulting, this is your chance to make a significant impact.

Benefits

Flexible Work Arrangements

Career Progression Opportunities

Inclusive Culture

Competitive Pay

Qualifications

• Experience in managing global clients and complex relationships.
• Background in quantitative research and project management.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice on brand and business strategy.
• Manage senior client relationships and drive commercial growth.
• Lead and develop high-performing teams.

Skills

Strategic Thinking

Consultative Skills

Team Management

Quantitative Research

Client Relationship Management

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Job Details

Senior Research Director

London / Warwick / Hybrid

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Our Insights colleagues are the masters of using data to resolve challenges. They help brands define what they should stand for, how to reinvent and renew their offer, how to better reach audiences, and how to win with consumers and customers. By collecting substantial data from across the world, they blend human expertise with technology, making sure we can deliver innovative insights to brands everywhere.

We work with the biggest brands in the world, ranging from Adidas to TikTok and HSBC to Unilever, helping them understand their customers and take the right decisions in relation to opportunities and challenges across Brand, Creative, Media, Innovation, Customer Experience, Consulting and Analytics. We have over eight hundred colleagues across the UK and Ireland, based either in our offices or remotely; part of a global company working across over one hundred different countries.

Role

Our Senior Client Leads immerse themselves in their client’s worlds to really understand their brands, communications and business strategy in order to help them grow. We are lucky enough to work with the majority of the world’s biggest advertisers, covering categories such as personal care, household goods, food and drink, alcoholic drinks, finance, retail, technology, travel and many more.

You will develop collaborative, strategic partnerships with your clients. The research is broad across multiple data sources; a blend combining brand tracking (mostly automated and app based), brand positioning, brand guidelines, analytics (there is a very strong analytics/data science team here), client data, segmentation etc.

All this in a supportive, positive, proactive, buoyant business with excellent career development opportunities, where you can expect to be properly rewarded for the results you deliver.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide expert and holistic advice to clients on brand, communication and business strategy
• Blend multiple data sources and methodologies to address complex client questions and deliver clear recommendations
• Manage and grow senior and complex client relationships within your domain, with a minimum value of 1.65 million
• Partner with clients and agencies to deliver impactful domain-based solutions and drive cross-domain opportunities
• Drive commercial growth within your domain and manage an active pipeline, with a focus on scale, cross sell and repeat
• Sponsor Top Tier accounts, lead on proposal development and contribute to strategic goals within the domain
• Build and coach high performing domain teams, with specific emphasis on Director cohort
• Set the cultural tone and behavioural agenda, and embed the right values within the domain

Skills & Experience Required

• Highly strategic and consultative individual with a passion for brands and brand development
• Experience working with global clients within fast-moving sector/s
• Experience managing and inspiring teams in a previous role/s or ready to take the step up
• Passionate about growing and developing your team, by being an inspiring leader and managing junior members
• Quantitative research background and experience managing research projects
• Experience having worked in either research agency, client side or agency planning environments

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.

We also prioritize our people’s wellbeing and inclusivity, offering flexible work arrangements and fostering a diverse, supportive environment. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive culture.

Location

London, South Bank Central, United Kingdom

Kantar Rewards

Our reward system is based on clear principles linked to performance, ensuring competitive pay and opportunities for career progression.

We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive, diverse community where everyone can thrive, feel accepted, and contribute to our collective success.