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Kantar Insights is looking for an Account Director to lead our Innovation research department in Brussels!
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.
About the team:
We are the Innovation team within Kantar Insights. A friendly and dynamic team who are smashing all targets and are therefore seeking new talent to add additional perspectives and accelerate our growth at this exciting time!
We are lucky enough to work with some of the world’s leading innovators and support them to embrace a more iterative and agile innovation journey. Their business and the spaces where they operate are going through wholesale transformation, and they need our support identify, build, and launch meaningfully differentiated innovation.
Our work is characterised by strategic deep dives, rapid experimentation, and a real focus on human driven learning, and, increasingly, cutting edge research techniques and technology, based on the latest behavioural sciences and lean innovation thinking.
About the role:
You will be a co-pilot for clients across the country, with senior decision makers across insights, brand, innovation, R&D, Executive/C Suite teams in the creation of value through new product and service propositions. You will oversee a team of 2-3 market researchers to deliver trusted advice on strategic innovation and product development issues. This will help clients determine the right strategy and execution plan to deliver commercial advantage through the application of the breadth and depth of our offers.
You will engage with clients, generating new conversations to win business, collaborating with internal stakeholders ensuring our client is seeing the best of Kantar’s offering to achieve their growth ambitions.
Clients would say: I love working with you because “You know me and my business inside out. You help me create powerful innovation by bringing me the market leading product development expertise. You make me look great within my organisation & make it easy”.
You will work closely with other domain leads (Brand, CX, Creative) and departments (Business Development) across Kantar Insights in Belgium.
What you'll be doing:
1) Innovation Expertise
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You are an innovation expert, with a proven track record of developing human centric innovation.
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You will demonstrate deep Kantar innovation knowledge to take the best of Kantar to address specific client’s needs.
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You have experience working with and blending different types of data to tell powerful client stories.
2) Client Management
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You own & lead overall client relationship across all innovation and product development areas in Belgium.
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You build long term trusted client partnerships, with most senior client contacts, beyond Marketing & Insights.
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You have stewardship of projects, ensuring high impact with clients at the critical points throughout the project and quality of delivery within budget and timescales.
3) Commercial Mindset
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You deliver against annual objectives for the Innovation team;
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You uncover opportunities to grow and service new, emerging client needs.
4) People Leadership
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You lead & motivate the team with direct management of 2-3 associates – prior experience of coaching a team is necessary.
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You create a collaborative culture where the team can flourish.
What we offer:
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A versatile job in an inspiring, international, and informal working environment at a leading organization, where you will work together with a team of enthusiastic colleagues on challenging projects for some of the largest companies in the world;
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A lot of personal responsibility and space to develop own initiatives;
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Access to the expertise and innovative tools of an international organization that knows everything about brands and how to make them stronger;
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Regular fun activities where we gather with the team.
Country
Belgium
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.
And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.
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