Kantar - Quantitative Researcher Manager/Senior Manager - Consumer Insights

JOB TITLE Account Manager / Senior Account Manager.
ROLE MISSION STATEMENT:
- The AM/SAM is a part of the Client Service team who would serve as an intermediary between the business and its clients, with responsibility for revenue & margin assurance & appropriate high levels of service to those clients.
- As a researcher, you will constantly provide sophisticated solutions to our clients, applying the highest standards of innovative, quantitative market research tools.
BRAND AND KANTAR STATEMENT:
- A leading research agency, we help clients to grow great brands and improve marketing efficiency by analyzing, interpreting, and understanding the world around us.
- At Kantar, our services include quantitative/qualitative solutions, neuroscience, brand equity, advertising, media, and digital effectiveness.
- Join us and you'll be part of 30,000 colleagues and 12 world-leading research, data, and insight brands at Kantar.
- At the heart of WPP, our unique consumer insight inspires clients to flourish in an extraordinary world.

KEY OUTCOMES STATEMENT
- Developing & maintaining relationships with their identified clients, ensuring that their needs are being met and that they are receiving appropriate levels of service, in collaboration with the HCS / GAD on those accounts.
- Owning the management of revenue budgets set for those clients in close collaboration with the HCS / GAD.
- Developing individual job costs, monitoring job costs throughout a project, and ensuring profitability.
- Identifying & developing new business opportunities amongst existing clients and outside the existing client base with guidance from HCS / GAD.
- Management of staff in his/her team, training and career development of staff, annual evaluations, identifying their needs and providing coaching, and monitoring of the progress of staff under their management.
- Leading the national special projects for cascade across the entire office.
- Designing and executing high-quality research using the right tools and techniques to address client needs.
- Making presentations to senior / top management of reputed companies to come out with strategic analysis and recommendations and so, being conversant with the happenings in the economy, in general, and with respect to the sectors mentioned above.
- Ensuring solutions to the queries and managing client and internal stakeholder's expectations to ensure adequate work-life balance for the team.
CAPABILITIES STATEMENT:
- At least 4 - 8 years of experience in Client Service Consumer Insights, preferred degree - MBA.
- Proven knowledge of market research: consumer research/brand research & retail research, specifically product testing, U&A, and pricing projects, especially in FMCG/ Consumer durables.
- Experience in quantitative research techniques & tools like questionnaire / research design / preparing a research execution plan etc.
- Proven skills in team management and leadership.
- Background and experience in P&L management.
- Demonstrated ability to build strong client relationships.
- Strong analytical, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.