Senior Consultant

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Job Details

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.  We use insights and data to create and embed growth strategies to make brands and businesses more valuable.  

About the role:

·       Job Title: Senior Consultant – for Kantar Consulting Team

·       Job Location: New York City, Boston, or Chicago

Primary Objective

•         Delivery of high-quality/high-impact brand strategy and consulting solutions, while actively building client relationships and consulting skills in a dynamic, collaborative environment.

•         Starting to build client relationships and take a lead role in managing commercial aspects of client engagements

Scope of Role

•         Delivery of a variety of consulting projects such as brand strategy, market structures, consumer & demand segmentations, brand valuations, brand portfolio strategy, brand architecture, brand purpose, organizational performance, front end innovation, commerce strategy etc.

•         Responsible for comprehension of the client’s marketing problems, managing and execution of our consulting solution strategy on medium-low complexity accounts, while supporting higher complexity projects, and always ensuring outputs are meaningful, accurate and actionable for clients.

•         Actively participate in client and project design discussions – proactively engaging with team members and client to ensure we achieve project objectives

•         Responsible for ownership of specific phases or discrete work processes on projects

•         Provide input into development of consulting solution deliverables at all phases (e.g., questionnaire, sample design and analytic plan) 

•         Conduct data analysis, synthesizes data from multiple sources, displays critical and analytical thinking skills

•         Take an active role in storytelling by finding interesting facts in the data/preliminary reporting and generating insights.

•         Manage timelines and quality of work products, working with internal departments and clients to achieve successful outcomes following solution and industry best practices

•         Proactively identify and solve project issues as they arise

•         Perform in-depth quality checks at various stages of the research to ensure accuracy

•         Optimize efficiency of delivery without sacrifice of quality

•         Help build successful project teams, providing support and guidance for 1-2 junior project team members on most projects, coordinating and managing to ensure timely execution of project

•         Demonstrate a high-level understanding of Kantar data sources, tools, and practice areas, and follow the latest developments.

•         Exhibit good critical thinking skills, can follow a project workplan and analytic plan, is comfortable sharing ideas and point of view

•         Help with presentation development, ensuring client de