Senior Strategy Manager

Kantar; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Kantar is seeking a Senior Strategy Manager in London with 3–5 years in strategy consulting or a similar analytical field. This hybrid role involves shaping long-term brand growth, leading structured analyses, and translating insights into tangible recommendations.

The position is hands-on and ideal for someone early in their strategy career, ready to take ownership and rapidly build experience across diverse strategic problems with cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of 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

Strategy consulting

Numerical analysis

Excel modelling

Problem solving

Clear communication

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 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.

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.

Equality and Diversity

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.