Strategy Manager: Shape Product & Growth (Hybrid)

Kantar LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

25 days leave

Volunteer leave

Life event leave

Company pension

Healthcare options

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Kantar in London is seeking a Strategy Manager to shape the strategic direction of the Solutions and Product organisation. You will work with senior leaders to prioritise investments, size markets, and translate insights into actionable roadmaps and business results.

The role combines strategy, product, and transformation. You will drive complex projects, build compelling cases, and influence stakeholders to realise strategic priorities across the business.

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.

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

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Project leadership

Job description

Kantar in London is seeking a Strategy Manager to shape the strategic direction of the Solutions and Product organisation. You will work with senior leaders to prioritise investments, size markets, and translate insights into actionable roadmaps and business results.

The role combines strategy, product, and transformation. You will drive complex projects, build compelling cases, and influence stakeholders to realise strategic priorities across the business.