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Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.

Job Details

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

This role is to partner one of the biggest clients for Middle East, a giga city/destination brand in making in the region. This role offers an outstanding & 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 mega cities, destination brands, Travel & Tourism sector etc, would be an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities

The position 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.
• Partnering with internal and external collaborators to drive client engagement.
• 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 \xe2\x80\x93 relationship building and client delivery
• Manage a team and groom them, build their expertise
• Day-to-day \xe2\x80\x98management\xe2\x80\x99 and leading the projects, working with own team and hubs for \xe2\x80\x98execution\xe2\x80\x99.
• Ability to interpret and triangulate multiple data sources to tell a comprehensive story
• Develop engaging reports and client deliverables that synthesize data to meaningfully address client business objectives.
• Ensure overall high quality of project processes and 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

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We\xe2\x80\x99re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you\xe2\x80\x99re not an exact match, we\xe2\x80\x99d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

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