Associate Director Brand

Job Description

Insights

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company and our Insights colleagues are experts in human understanding. 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. 

Job Details

We are seeking a dynamic Insights professional with proven experience to join our team! Ideal candidates for the role will have experience handling multiple clients, partners, a passion for working with clients, a strong understanding of brand, creative & media and should have demonstrated success leading client partnerships with strong eye for business.

This role is to partner one of the biggest brands in Middle East. This role offers a unique & exciting opportunity to learn and grow with a dynamic team & a future forward client.

This role would require sound brand & communication expertise, ability to triangulate multiple sources of data, ability to understand & address business questions like a trusted advisor. Experience on working with multi sector, multi category clients, would be an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities

This role is based out of Dubai. Dubai offers an exceptional living with extraordinary infrastructure, tax free income, high quality education, safe and secure family living with easy connectivity to any part of the world. There are more than 30 nationalities residing in Dubai offering a unique cosmopolitan culture.

As an Associate Director, you would lead this key client relationship for Kantar Insights, UAE.

In this role, specifically, you will:

• Be the face of Kantar Insights for clients, understand their business questions, find opportunities and be able to propose solutions to answer client business challenges.
• Be partnering with internal and external collaborators to drive client engagement.
• Be spotting opportunities & drafting proposals based on client needs
• Bring in strong marketing & brand perspective to client engagements.
• Coordinate day-to-day activities of client engagements – relationship building and client delivery
• Manage a team and groom them, build their expertise
• Day-to-day manage and lead projects, working with your own team and hubs for ‘execution’.
• Interpret and triangulate multiple data sources to tell a comprehensive story
• Develop story-driven reports and client deliverables that synthesize data to meaningfully address client business objectives.
• Ensure overall high quality of project processes and client deliverables.

Capability requirements

• Strong experience in Quantitative Research, ideally Brand, Communication & Media
• Strong senior client management experience
• Experience in Line management

Country

United Arab Emirates

Location

Dubai, Jumeirah Lakes Towers

Why join Kantar?

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in.  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, nobody knows people better than Kantar.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our people are looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for our people is our highest priority and we encourage our people to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage our colleagues to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all, and we’re flexible in our approach to ensure people feel included and accepted. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, which is why we welcome applications from all background and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not a perfect fit, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.