Senior Strategy Consultant, Media & Creative

Kantar; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kantar is seeking a Senior Strategy Consultant in Amsterdam to transform research, data and evidence into strategic recommendations that shape marketing investment and brand growth. You will lead projects from briefing to delivery, partner with senior stakeholders, and act as a trusted advisor across local and international markets.

You'll combine analytical rigour with commercial thinking, turning complex data into clear business decisions, and coaching junior team members while contributing to

Qualifications

• Significant experience in marketing, insights, media, consulting or a related field.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to turn data into strategic recommendations.
• Proven success building client relationships and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, storytelling and presentation skills.
• Strong project management and organisational capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead client projects from briefing through to delivery, ensuring high-quality outputs and an excellent client experience.
• Build trusted relationships with clients, acting as a strategic partner on media and creative effectiveness.
• Analyse research and market data, translating findings into clear and actionable recommendations for marketing, media and brand teams.
• Deliver compelling presentations and stories that influence decision-making among senior stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen client partnerships, support client retention and contribute to commercial growth.
• Coach and support junior team members, helping them develop their consulting, analytical and client management skills.

Skills

Marketing

Insights

Media

Consulting

Presentation

Data analysis

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

At Kantar, we help the world’s most influential brands grow through a deeper understanding of people, markets and media. As a Senior Strategy Consultant within our Media & Creative team, you’ll transform research, data and evidence into strategic recommendations that shape marketing investment, creative effectiveness and long-term brand growth. Drawing on Kantar’s focus on delivering intelligence for brand growth, this role combines analytical rigour with commercial thinking to help clients make confident business decisions.

You’ll work with some of the world’s most recognised brands, partnering with senior stakeholders to solve complex business challenges across local and international markets. Acting as a trusted advisor, you’ll uncover meaningful insights, translate complex data into clear business recommendations, and help clients maximise the impact of their media and communications strategies.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced consultant who enjoys combining strategic thinking, client partnership, and leadership. You’ll play a key role in growing client relationships, supporting colleagues’ development, and contributing to the commercial success of both our clients and our business.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead client projects from briefing through to delivery, ensuring high-quality outputs and an excellent client experience.
• Build trusted relationships with clients, acting as a strategic partner on media and creative effectiveness.
• Analyse research and market data, translating findings into clear and actionable recommendations for marketing, media and brand teams.
• Deliver compelling presentations and stories that influence decision-making among senior stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen client partnerships, support client retention and contribute to commercial growth.
• Coach and support junior team members, helping them develop their consulting, analytical and client management skills.

The ideal skills and experience

• Significant experience in marketing, insights, media, consulting or a related field, with the ability to independently manage complex projects.
• Strong analytical skills and experience turning data and research into strategic business recommendations.
• Proven success building client relationships and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, storytelling and presentation skills.
• Strong project management and organisational capabilities.

Experience gained within a media, marketing, creative or communications agency environment would be highly advantageous.

• Fluent in Dutch and English, with a strong understanding of the Dutch media and marketing landscape.
• Curious, commercially minded and motivated by solving complex business challenges.

What’s in it for you

• Work with some of the world’s most influential brands and help shape decisions that matter.
• Exposure to international projects, clients and thought leadership.
• Learn from experts across insights, media, analytics, consulting and strategy.
• An ambitious and supportive team culture with opportunities to connect, celebrate success and learn from one another.
• Access to Kantar’s learning and development programmes to support your continued growth.

Why join Kantar?

Kantar is one of the most recognised and trusted brands in its industry, with unmatched depth of expertise and global reach. We combine deep human understanding with advanced technology to help the world’s leading brands make better decisions and accelerate growth. Today, Kantar is evolving how intelligence is created and delivered, bringing together human insight, AI-enabled technology and world-class expertise to help clients act with confidence in an increasingly complex world.

Please note:
We are unable to offer visa sponsorship or relocation support for this role. Please ensure you have the right to work in the country where this position is located before applying.

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 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.