Associate Director

Kantar Group Limited; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Kantar Group Limited in Amsterdam is seeking an Associate Director to lead strategic marketing projects, guide solution development, and drive growth for client brands.

You will manage cross-functional teams, shape client stories, and strengthen relationships with senior stakeholders, delivering impactful recommendations.

The role emphasizes business impact, capability building, and collaboration across global practices to land incremental growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of experience with global brands in brand marketing or growth consulting.
• Proven track record delivering impactful solutions and building client relationships.
• Ideally French-speaking.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects and teams, shape solutions and client storytelling.
• Coach and develop team members, manage scope, time and budget.
• Develop client strategies and guide growth decisions.

Skills

Leads with Impact

Solves Problems Decisively

Contextualises Meaningful Data

Guides Business Action

Client Relationship Management

Commercial Strategy

Job description

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

To start a career that is out of the ordinary,

Associate Director - Skale 70

Introduction At Kantar Consulting our strategic consultants around the world partner with our clients to inspire actionable solutions that drive brand growth. We are an integral part of Kantar working with marketing leadership and leveraging Kantar Intellectual Property and capabilities to land the practical implications and actionable recommendations for portfolio and brand growth. We are experts on the following offers: GrowthFinder: we identify new space for brands to grow and optimise clients’ portfolio and go to market strategy, finding incremental spaces based on a deep,commercialised understanding of where demand sits inmarkets and categories today and tomorrow. Brand Strategy: we design the right growth trajectory for each brand, articulating its positioning, architecture, and core culturally relevant messaging. Futures & Innovation: we help anticipate and plan for future through trend driven scenarios which shape the biggest innovation opportunities. Organisational Performance: we design winning commercial operating models and embed behaviour change through capability programmes. Valuation: we conduct bespoke brand valuation to capture the value of the brand(s) and define holistic ways to act upon their key growth drivers

Job Description

Do you have corporate strategic marketing or strategic consulting experience with proven track record of delivering impactful solutions and building strong relationships? Are you interested in brands and businesses – how they connect with people, how they communicate, how they sell and how they can evolve? As Associate Director you will lead projects and teams, shape the solutions and storylines, and guide clients towards growth decisions winning new projects with clients. You will also develop your solution expertise in one of the consulting practices and support advance it. You will improve your project management skills and coach and develop others, sharing your skills and knowledge to grow the team.

Competencies

• Leads with Impact: Takes ownership of projects (across the whole lifecycle, from scoping to execution and evaluation) and leads internal teams and client engagements. Flags issues and proposes solutions. Shows authenticity and openness and admits strengths and weaknesses.
• Solves Problems Decisively: Uses our key solutions with some senior help. Solves complex problems by asking the client's question, making hypotheses, and doing a structured analysis. Has the ability to develop a deep understanding of client needs, and then address them.
• Contextualises Meaningful Data: Understands the client's reality based on document reviews and stakeholder interviews. Explains how the analysis findings affect the client. Can find, interpret and combine findings across different Kantar data types for a bigger client question.
• Guides Business Action: Engages with clients to interact and get their agreement. Begins to show their ability to run workshops and discussions that help client decision-making.
• Connects to Win: Includes diverse perspectives and collaborates to use the power of winning together and communicating with empathy.
• Builds Great Teams: With strong work ethic manage project teams, coaches and energises them, helping to deliver to time, quality and budget successfully. ‘Hands‑on’ project work as well as delivering via the work of others, and planning and coordinating resource on a global /regional /local level to deliver goals.
• Drives Lasting Change: Champions innovative solutions and client offerings and activates change, supporting others to adapt. A big picture thinker – with a strong ability to provoke and inspire clients to think differently about how to drive growth for their industry, business, category and product/service.
• Owns Commercial Success: Build excellent client relationships up to C-level, establishing as a credible expert in Commercial Strategy. Pursues opportunities with relentless hunger, prioritises resources to achieve targets and balances short and long-term value creation.

Requirements

6-8 years of experience working for or with a global brand in brand marketing or experience in growth/brand consulting or other relevant professional services is required. Proven track record of delivering impactful solutions and building strong relationships. Ideally French-speaking

Location

Amsterdam, AmsteldijkNetherlands

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 & 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.

Diversity & Inclusion

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

About Kantar

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.

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.