Strategy Manager

KANTAR BUSINESS SERVICES, UNIPESSOAL LDA; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

25 days leave

Volunteering leave

Parental leave

Company pension

Healthcare benefits

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Kantar is seeking a Strategy Manager to shape the strategic direction of its Solutions and Product organisation. You will work with senior leaders to determine focus areas, investments and roadmaps, translating decisions into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.

The role involves leading strategic projects from problem definition through to implementation planning, with exposure to executive and board-level audiences. Hybrid working and a comprehensive benefits package are included.

Qualifications

• Strong structured problem-solving skills and confidence working with ambiguity.
• Excellent analytical and commercial capabilities, including market sizing, financial modelling and business-case development.
• Experience turning complex analysis into clear, actionable recommendations.
• An understanding of how strategy informs product, roadmap and investment decisions.
• Experience leading complex projects from initial question through to implementation planning.
• Strong communication, storytelling and stakeholder influencing skills.
• The judgement, curiosity and autonomy to operate effectively in a fast-moving, matrixed organisation.

Responsibilities

• Support business planning and strategic decision-making across Solutions and Product.
• Assess market and commercial opportunities through market sizing, competitor analysis, client insight and financial modelling.
• Develop business cases and recommendations to inform investment and prioritisation decisions.
• Help shape Product and Solutions roadmaps using market, client and commercial evidence.
• Lead strategy and transformation projects from problem definition through to recommendation and implementation planning.
• Translate strategy into clear plans, milestones and measures of success.
• Build trusted relationships across Product, Solutions, Commercial, Finance and Engineering.
• Develop and present clear recommendations to senior leaders, including executive and board-level audiences.

Skills

Problem solving

Strategic analysis

Financial modelling

Product strategy

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

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

Why this job is important

As Strategy Manager , you’ll help shape the strategic direction of Kantar’s Solutions and Product organisation.

Working with senior leaders across Solutions & Product, Commercial, Finance and Engineering, you’ll help answer some of our most important questions: Where should we focus? Which opportunities should we invest in? And how do we turn those choices into product roadmaps and business results?

This is a varied, high-impact role at the intersection of strategy, product and transformation. One project might involve sizing a new market opportunity and developing the case for investment; another could focus on roadmap priorities or redesigning how part of the organisation operates.

You’ll take complex questions from initial problem definition through analysis and recommendation, helping turn strategic decisions into practical action.

What you’ll be doing

• Support business planning and strategic decision-making across Solutions and Product.
• Assess market and commercial opportunities through market sizing, competitor analysis, client insight and financial modelling.
• Develop business cases and recommendations to inform investment and prioritisation decisions.
• Help shape Product and Solutions roadmaps using market, client and commercial evidence.
• Lead strategy and transformation projects from problem definition through to recommendation and implementation planning.
• Translate strategy into clear plans, milestones and measures of success.
• Build trusted relationships across Product, Solutions, Commercial, Finance and Engineering.
• Develop and present clear recommendations to senior leaders, including executive and board-level audiences.

The ideal skills & experience

You may come from management consulting, corporate strategy, product strategy or an in-house strategy and transformation environment .

You’ll bring:

• Strong structured problem-solving skills and confidence working with ambiguity.
• Excellent analytical and commercial capabilities, including market sizing, financial modelling and business-case development.
• Experience turning complex analysis into clear, actionable recommendations.
• An understanding of how strategy informs product, roadmap and investment decisions.
• Experience leading complex projects from initial question through to implementation planning.
• Strong communication, storytelling and stakeholder influencing skills.
• The judgement, curiosity and autonomy to operate effectively in a fast-moving, matrixed organisation.

Experience within a leading management consultancy would be particularly valuable , although we’re also interested in candidates who have developed comparable strategic capabilities in a relevant in-house environment.

What’s in it for you

You’ll join Kantar at a point when we’re investing in AI and technology and evolving how intelligence is delivered. You’ll have the opportunity to tackle complex strategic questions and contribute to decisions that shape what comes next.

• Hybrid working
• 25 days leave, 2 days paid for volunteering and life event leave
• Competitive salary and bonus (bonus dependent on role)
• Company pension
• Enhanced parental leave
• Healthcare options
• Wide range of flexible benefits

Please be aware, the majority of our roles are hybrid, working three days a week in our office.

We’re not able to offer visa sponsorship or help with relocation support for this role. Please make sure you’ve got the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying.

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 alsoto support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

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 andwell 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.