International Strategic Client Director

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.

Job Details

EP provides a truly global working experience; from the moment you join, you will find yourself immersed in a vibrant working environment, learning daily from a team built on a wide spectrum of experience and cultures. Our team is spread across Europe with Hubs in different locations.

Just as our clients are at the centre of everything we do, our people are the foundation, and we have the same levels of passion and commitment to them and their careers with us.

You will...
- Maintain a dialogue with key client collaborators about their ongoing hot topics, business priorities, proactively finding opportunities
- Manage a growing and partially virtual team, sharing knowledge and encouraging a culture of learning. Including multiple direct line reports.
- Create high functioning relationships with EP colleagues, senior partners, and local Kantar & YouGov teams
- Lead major EP projects across a portfolio of clients, responsible for the development and delivery of high profile, multi-country insights
- Develop opportunities to grow revenue for the team, with a focus on increasing the contribution of EP products and services
- Negotiating new and existing contracts

You have...
- Profound knowledge in quantitative research, ideally understanding of Consumer Panel data
- A desire to develop commercial skills through spotting opportunities - proactive project-mining, and proposal writing
- Experience delivering against commercial targets and act proactively in pursuit of opportunities.
- The ability to build strong relationships and influence both externally and internally senior level contacts and to be seen as an expert by those contacts
- Experience delivering insight based consultative projects with the ability to provide valuable client insights, and present complex data clearly and incisively
- A confident, compelling and engaging communication style that conveys the expertise expected of a consultant
- A collaborative approach with clients and colleagues of various personalities and cultures

You have...
- Dedicated, taking ownership of tasks, working independently, creatively and resourcefully
- Able to handle multiple requests and make decisions about who and what to prioritise.
- A great teammate with experience working with multiple stakeholders and partners
- Willing to step out of your comfort zone
- Comfortable building virtual networks/relationships and working in virtual teams

Kantar benefits
- Option of flexible hybrid working
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Private Medical & Dental Insurance
- Eyecare Vouchers
- Life Assurance & Income Protection
- Cycle to Work Scheme

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 want to build an equality of opportunity in a fair and encouraging working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to thrive in a space where their mental health and well-being is taken into consideration.

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

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Country

France

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.