Strategy Manager

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

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave

2 days volunteering & life event leave

Competitive salary and bonus

Company pension

Enhanced parental leave

Healthcare options

Wide range of flexible benefits

Job summary

Kantar Group is seeking a Strategy Manager to shape the strategic direction of our Solutions and Product organisation. You’ll work with senior leaders across functions to answer what to focus on and how to turn insights into roadmaps and business results.

Based in a hybrid environment in London, you’ll lead strategic and transformation projects, develop business cases, and translate strategy into actionable plans with clear milestones and measures of success.

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.
• Experience within a leading management consultancy would be particularly valuable.

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

management consulting

corporate strategy

product strategy

structured problem-solving

analytical capabilities

business-case development

communication & storytelling

stakeholder influencing

autonomy in fast-moving 조직

Job description

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.

• 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.