Analyst, Futures

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**Job Details**:**Kantar**
**Consulting**

**Analyst, Futures & Innovation**
**Singapore**

**About the role**:
The Analyst's primary responsibility is to add value to client deliverables by conducting research, identifying quality insights, developing compelling and presentations, and participating in client briefings, meetings and workshops. Experience in consumer insight, innovation, strategic foresight, and trends consulting and activation a plus.

**Responsibilities**:

- Contribute to client engagements through the delivery of high-quality work to team members and demonstrating green shoots of critical thinking and storytelling
- Analyze proprietary Kantar consumer data and external sources to identify, interpret and translate it for use in our innovation, brand strategy, and foresight/ scenario projects.
- Scouting trends, cultural shifts and product inspiration to identify opportunities for growth
- Spot trends and patterns from different sources of qualitative, quantitative and desk research
- Contributing to collaborative brainstorms, creative ideation and problem-solving
- Support multiple, simultaneous projects and support more senior level consultants in the delivery of projects, taking ownership developing high-quality client deliverables
- Distill relevant insights into recommendations for our clients (e.g., marketing communications, brand strategy/positioning, consumer targeting, corporate strategy, innovation and new product/service development, category or portfolio strategy, etc.)
- Assist in presenting future-facing, brand and cultural insights, implications and recommendations to our clients
- Support meeting logistics both internally and with clients (room setup, note taking, etc.)
- Occasional travel required (upon resumption of in-person meetings)

**Qualifications**:

- 1-3 years of experience
- Degree, preferably in the social sciences, arts, design or related disciplines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a creative approach to story-telling and visual presentation of information
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a desire to collaborate with others
- Ability to synthesize and translate data (soft and hard) from primary research and other sources into a cohesive and compelling storyline
- Ability to think strategically and work in teams to support the development of insights, implications and recommendations for our clients
- Passion around consumers, consumer trends, and macro trends
- Has experience in pattern recognition
- Plugged in, well versed in culture & media landscape: art, design, films, music, organizing, influencers, memes, online behaviour, niche subreddits, brand activity, etc.
- Excellent critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, organization and time management skills and superior attention to detail
- Endless curiosity about human behaviour and an ability to understand the consumer
- Strong work ethic with a client-first approach to service and relationship building and a strong desire to exceed expectations
- Ability to take initiative and to work both independently and within a team
- Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

**Join us**
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.

**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.