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Director - Skale 80

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 in markets 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

If you possess experience in Marketing/Brand Management and/or consultancy in a leadership position and have the ability to serve as a trusted advisor to senior clients managing relationships and expectations and using our solutions to answer complex questions, seize the opportunity to join Kantar's Consulting team as a Director and make a transformative impact.

You will lead by example in every aspect beyond project management, inspiring and developing your team, owning the client relationships, and shaping the opportunities for cross-sell and new business within your existing projects and clients. Over more, you will also take ownership and contribute to the improvement of practice areas and solutions.

Competencies

Directors are expected to demonstrate the following competencies according to the Kantar Success Factors Framework:

• Leads with Impact: Demonstrates outstanding and visible leadership skills, empowering internal teams and leading projects. Accountable for overall project success with minimal support from Partners/Senior Partners, effectively drives client relationships, and manages challenging engagements, turning client needs into solvable problems.

Contributes to actively setting the strategic direction leading the consulting practice locally.

• Solves Problems Decisively: Addresses the client’s real problems in an intelligible and logical way, enabling effective problem-solving. Acts timely to solve the larger problems in and beyond projects, elevating approaches and storylines.

• Contextualises Meaningful Data: Deeply understands the client’s reality and uses industry experience and knowledge to articulate the problem. Stays up to date with the latest developments, elevates client thinking challenging pre-existing biases and conception with Kantar Data creating a strategic story and solution with the team.
• Guides Business Action: Leading proposals, budget, and approach development, drives client impact and action beyond the scope of a single project. Crafts meaningful and crisp strategic recommendations based on strong client empathy and the ability to walk in their shoes. Possess strong facilitation skills to independently deliver workshops and trainings to clients.

• Connects to Win: Collaborates with the Kantar leadership team to develop and refine the solutions that will make Kantar win in the long term. Leverages relationships with various Kantar teams beyond Consulting to build and deliver solutions to clients.

• Builds Great Teams: With strong work ethic fosters a culture of collaboration and mutual respect within a culturally diverse team while also promoting the celebration of achievements. Assists team members to further develop their skills and knowledge, enabling them to excel in different areas of the business. Able to get the best out of people and retain them in the business.

• Drives Lasting Change: Ensures lasting profitable impact for KC by driving the local adoption of scalable solutions. Leads the development of practice area solutions and thought leadership in line with the market trends to help Kantar win in the long term, creating insightful content and proposing innovative and better ways of working for the practice areas.
• Owns Commercial Success: Strategic partner to our senior clients, operates beyond the project’s context and helps clients identify and articulate their real problems. Owns full account relationship. Builds KC fame, leveraging personal networks as well as Kantar and WPP network. Develops a C-suite reputation. Enables the team to deliver profitable projects by selling work at the right price.

Requirements

• 8-10 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 shaping opportunities to generate new business within projects and clients.

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.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.

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.

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.