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About Kantar
Kantar is the world's leading marketing data, insights, and consulting company, helping organizations understand people and inspire growth. In the UK, we partner with some of the world's most recognized brands, combining deep human understanding with advanced analytics, technology, and AI to solve their most important business challenges. Our teams work across Brand, Creative, Innovation, Media, and Customer Experience, delivering insight that helps clients make confident decisions and achieve sustainable growth. We bring together a diverse range of expertise, perspectives, and capabilities, creating an environment where collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning thrive.
The Role
Our Research Managers partner with some of the world's leading brands, delivering insight, consultancy, and strategic recommendations that drive business growth. They build trusted client relationships, lead research programs, and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to solve complex business challenges.
Using industry-leading methodologies, analytical techniques, and tools, Research Managers help clients make confident decisions across areas such as brand, communications, creative, and innovation. As a Research Manager, you will lead projects from brief through to insight delivery, ensuring an exceptional client experience while contributing to business growth. You'll also champion the Kantar strategy, embracing a future-focused mindset and leveraging AI, technology, and automation to enhance efficiency, strengthen insight generation, and improve client outcomes.
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What We're Looking For
- Strong experience in quantitative research and insights, within one or more of the following areas: Brand, Creative, and Innovation
- Proven ability to manage client relationships and deliver high-quality research and insight projects
- Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders
- Analytical and commercially minded, with a talent for turning data into actionable recommendations
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Collaborative and adaptable, with experience working effectively across teams
- Curious, proactive, and committed to continuous learning and development
- Experience coaching or supporting the development of others is desirable
Key Responsibilities
- Build strong client relationships and deliver insight-led solutions that drive business growth
- Lead research projects from brief to delivery, ensuring high-quality outputs and an exceptional client experience
- Turn data into clear, compelling, and commercially relevant insights and recommendations
- Embrace AI, technology, and automation to improve efficiency, insight generation, and client outcomes
- Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, contributing to a high-performing and supportive culture
- Support the development of junior colleagues through coaching and knowledge sharing
- Demonstrate commercial awareness, curiosity, and a proactive approach to solving client challenges
- Champion continuous learning and role model the behaviours that support Kantar's strategy, culture, and commitment to innovation
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Why Join Kantar UK?
Joining Kantar means becoming part of a business that is shaping the future of insights. You'll work alongside talented colleagues, contribute to high-profile client partnerships, and have opportunities to develop expertise across a range of solutions and industries. We encourage innovation, embrace new technologies, and invest in our people's growth. Whether you're delivering breakthrough insights, building client relationships, or exploring new ways of working with AI and automation, you'll play a role in helping clients and Kantar succeed.
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London, South Bank Central, United Kingdom
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.
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