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DIRECTOR, Brand Guidance

Singapore

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 based in more than 100 countries help the world’s leading organizations succeed and grow. Nobody knows people better than Kantar. We provide insight and inspiration to help our clients, our people and society to create and flourish in an extraordinary world.

Our insights colleagues are experts in human understanding. With expertise covering brand, innovation, creative, media, commerce and customer experience, they help clients define what brands should stand for, how to disrupt and renew their offer, how to connect with audiences and how to win with consumers and customers.

Purpose:
This is an exciting opportunity join the Brand Guidance domain in Insights Division, Kantar Singapore. You are responsible for building strong client relationships, make a proven difference to the client’s business and for overall client satisfaction. As Team Leader, you will be managing a high performing team of 5-8 passionate brand builders with responsibility for its people, clients and business delivery and growth. You are also accountable for overseeing the entire delivery process, deliverables, client engagement and consultancy, providing insightful, value-added market intelligence to new and existing clients. As one of the senior leaders in the Brand Guidance team, you will also support the implementation of broader business initiatives aimed at transforming the way we work and deepening the domain knowledge.

If you have an interest in understanding brands and inspiring growth in people and businesses, this is the role for you Reach out to us now.

**Responsibilities**:

- Build strong relationships and deliver to account responsibilities sufficiently to retain clients and maintain existing business
- Develops and implements account management plans for key clients
- Lead accounts to oversee the team deliver all account deliverables while working to agreed budgets, and course-corrects where required
- Ensure all deliverables meet client needs and generate strong insight and impact for client’s business
- Design appropriate programs to drive meaningful insight for clients’ needs and their business
- Formulate, articulate and validate hypotheses to help build impactful stories & deliver effective advice for your clients
- Manage and develop a high performing and engaged team with 1-3 direct line reports and creates a culture which fosters team collaboration, growth and learning
- Delegates to team effectively, providing constructive feedback and support for other account members to ensure account responsibilities and deliverables are met to a high standard in agreed timelines

Capabilities:

- Proven Experience in Market research or Consumer Insights within agencies or end-users
- At least 8 to 10 years’ experience
- Expertise in Brand Tracking is an advantage
- Experience in leading a team and mentoring
- Strong communications and presentation skills

Location

Singapore, Scotts RoadSingapore

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 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.