Client Director

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Job Details

Why this job is important

This is a high-impact, strategic role where you will partner with leading global clients to help grow their brands through deep human understanding and data-driven insight. Working across complex, multi-country research programmes in the hot beverages sector, you will shape decision-making at the highest level. Your work will directly influence client strategy, while contributing to Kantar’s mission to deliver connected, meaningful intelligence in a fast-changing world.

What you’ll be doing

• Build trusted partnerships with senior client stakeholders and act as a strategic advisor
• Lead the design and delivery of brand tracking programmes and associated research modules
• Translate business challenges into clear research solutions and actionable insights
• Manage end-to-end project delivery, ensuring quality, timelines, and commercial performance
• Lead and develop a small team while collaborating with global centres of expertise

The ideal skills & experience

• Strong experience in market research, brand strategy, or consulting (7+ years)
• Proven ability to manage large, multi-market research programmes
• Excellent project planning and resource management skills
• Strong analytical thinking with the ability to turn data into clear, compelling stories
• Confident communicator with experience presenting to senior stakeholders

What’s in it for you

• Opportunity to work on global, high-profile brand challenges
• A collaborative and supportive environment with opportunities to mentor and lead
• Exposure to advanced analytics and integrated research solutions
• Life Leave, Volunteering Days, and enhanced family-friendly policies
• A hybrid working model with flexibility built in

Location

Bagneux, Avenue Aristide BriandFrance

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.