Associate Director - Qualitative Research

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Job Details

Kantar is looking for an Associate Director to join our fantastic Qualitative team in Sydney!

We are looking for someone who has qualitative expertise and can:

• Deliver the insight component of projects from beginning to end, using your qualitative skill sets along with culture and consumer sources to build thinking.
• Leverage advanced technologies including AI to enhance project implementation, analysis, and insight generation.
• Be highly skilled, naturally talented insight practitioner who is able to confidently share methodology recommendations with clients and other team members and having the desire to learn about and apply fresh methodologies is a must.
• Have an irrepressible instinct and strong ability to make the complex simple and tell powerful stories that make sense of the world in ways that will move clients to share and act.
• Must connect the dots that will solve the big questions for our clients and get a real thrill from building and delivering strategic research recommendations.
• Be a brilliant communicator, able to articulate insights (both in writing and in person / presentation) to provide clients with outcomes that meet or exceed expectations.
• Have strong commercial acumen that ensures they deliver profitable projects that meet or exceed client expectations.
• Role model behaviours that inspire more junior team members.

Why join Kantar?

• Unique leave entitlements!
• Exciting career growth opportunities across an array of clients and industries in a global company with a wonderful culture
• Training, development and mentorship from the industries leading insights specialists
• Flexible Work Policy
• Inclusion, Diversity and Wellbeing committee with monthly engagement initiatives
• Rewards program

Main responsibilities

• Apply an expert level of knowledge and understanding of our clients and their business in all interactions with clients.
• Leverage advanced technologies including AI to enhance project implementation, analysis, and insight generation.
• Deliver effective advice and consultancy for our clients.
• Develop positive relationships with clients to the extent they are the first port of call for strategic opinions and advice.
• Lead accounts to meet all account deliverables while working to agreed budgets, and course-correct where required
• Integrate knowledge of Kantar tools, philosophies and techniques and apply these appropriately to the design, analysis, and interpretation of research projects to deliver meaningful insights.
• Ensure insights are translated into engaging stories with clear and concise implications that will help clients make better marketing decisions.
• Actively seek new business opportunities and play an active role in developing them to achieve team budget.

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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.