Senior Strategy Manager

Kantar; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Kantar is seeking a Senior Strategy Manager in London (hybrid, ~3 days in office) to deliver high-impact strategic work that strengthens brands and guides where to play and how to win. You will work with senior leaders to structure complex challenges, build robust analyses and translate insights into clear recommendations.

This hands-on role is ideal for someone early in their strategy career, ready to take ownership and quickly gain experience across diverse strategic problems with

Qualifications

• 3-5 years’ experience from a top-tier strategy consulting or similar analytical environment.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, including confidence with Excel and modelling.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems and work independently.
• Clear and concise communication, both written and verbal.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn quickly across a variety of topics.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of our multi-year growth strategy for Brand using market, client and competitive insight.
• Deliver structured analysis across a range of strategic projects, translating complex insights and data into clear, actionable insights and recommendations.
• Support with commercial initiatives such as pricing and packaging.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring together different expertise and perspectives.
• Manage project timelines and coordinate tasks across multiple workstreams
• Support the development of Board-level materials, distilling complex strategic thinking into clear, compelling narratives.

Skills

Problem structuring

Numerical analysis

Excel modelling

Clear communication

Curiosity

Tools

Excel

Job description

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in.

Job Details

Senior Strategy Manager

Kantar

Kantar is the world’s leading AI-native marketing data and analytics business and an indispensable brand partner to the world’s top companies. We combine the most meaningful attitudinal and behavioural data with deep expertise and advanced analytics to uncover how people think and act. We help clients understand what has happened and why and how to shape the marketing strategies that shape their future.

Job Title

Senior Strategy Manager

Location

London (hybrid, typically ~3 days in office)

Skale

80

Function / Team

Strategy / Brand

About the Job

This role focuses on delivering high-impact strategic work, helping clients build stronger brands and make confident decisions on where to play and how to win.

Working closely with senior leaders in the business, you will bring structure to complex challenges, develop robust, insight-led analysis, and translate insight into clear, actionable, recommendations.

This is a hands‑on role suited to someone early in their strategy career who is ready to take ownership and rapidly build experience across a diverse range of strategic problems.

Job Goals

• Support the development of our multi-year growth strategy for Brand using market, client and competitive insight.
• Deliver structured analysis across a range of strategic projects, translating complex insights and data into clear, actionable insights and recommendations.
• Support with commercial initiatives such as pricing and packaging.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring together different expertise and perspectives.
• Manage project timelines and coordinate tasks across multiple workstreams
• Support the development of Board-level materials, distilling complex strategic thinking into clear, compelling narratives.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• 3-5 years’ experience from a top-tier strategy consulting or similar analytical environment.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, including confidence with Excel and modelling.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems and work independently.
• Clear and concise communication, both written and verbal.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn quickly across a variety of topics.

Why join Kantar?

Kantar is one of the most recognised and trusted brands in its industry, with unmatched depth of experience and global reach. What makes this moment different is how much is changing at once. We are investing in AI and technology, evolving how intelligence is delivered, and working on some of the world’s most influential brands. People joining Kantar now help shape what comes next.

Location

London, South Bank CentralUnited Kingdom

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 competitiveand 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.

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 beingis 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.