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We have a role for a PanelVoice Strategic Insight Director to play a crucial role in shaping the teams, and wider Advanced Analytics, future. We are looking for a someone who wants to be part of a driven, innovative team with a fantastic culture. This role would be ideal for someone with strong team and people management skills, an openness to challenge and someone who enjoys looking for new and innovative ways to grow commercially.
 

What you need to know about this job

You will be expected to be a champion of all things PanelVoice (and wider Advanced Analytics solutions). You will be someone who enjoys the challenge of working across multiple categories, clients and questions, driven by curiosity and a keenness to explore the central question to get to the best outcome for both us and the client. You will be able to use your network and team to best effect to achieve goals and learning this year.

One of our biggest goals in 2025 will be to ensure a simple, consistent PanelVoice message to both clients and client service. PanelVoice is a beautifully simple solution at heart - we answer our client’s biggest questions by combining real behaviour with shopper decisions/attitudes - and therefore the successful applicant should have an ability to pitch and flex this with impact.

There is a need to continue improving and innovating within the PanelVoice offer to make the solutions even more client-centric and optimise for future growth. Given the unique position in the UK, where we include our receipt-based panel Shoppix in the panel suite, there is a lot of scope to work with the team to evaluate and explore methodologies or panels will help drive future growth. Demonstrating skills including an openness to feedback, an interest in continuous improvement and challenging the status quo would be an advantage in this role.

You will also become an important part of the PanelVoice Management Team, influencing the future direction of the business unit. PanelVoice is strategically important to the success of Advanced Analytics and is well set up at Global level, creating some interesting workstreams, questions and challenges both in product and team development. The role currently has 5-line reports (4 direct and one indirect) and therefore current team/people management skills and experience would be an advantage.

Practical skills around survey-writing and leading PanelVoice projects is something that can be taught as you join the team so should not be a barrier to applying if you are concerned about this.
 

Key outcomesOwns commercial success. You’ll be driven to grow your area of ownership, as well as the broader PanelVoice offers and supporting your Analytics colleagues. You will need to be both proactive and build effective relationships with client service teams to collaborate and develop the best client offer. You will ensure both your team and yourself personally contribute to your team’s commercial growth targets.Drives lasting change. Supporting the mid to long-term success of PanelVoice by ensuring that you feed in key client questions, new ideas and competitive challenges from our clients. You should be creative as well as have a strong background in evaluating and developing offers.Leads with impact. You’ll need to establish yourself as a Senior leader in the PanelVoice team and engage your direct team in the year ahead and foster their motivation and career development. Managing workload and ways of working in a very dynamic environment, including across operational and commercial functions, will also be required.Solves problems decisively. You’ll be working across a diverse portfolio of prospective clients, client questions, presenting various PanelVoice insights and capabilities, and maximising opportunities.Connect to win. We’re looking for a phenomenal teammate – you’ll need to collaborate with a wide range of collaborators including our in-house scripting team, Analysts, Consultants and your Client Service colleagues to help devise the best solutions for clients and find new opportunities.Amplifies professional expertise. You’ll become an authority on PanelVoice suite of capabilities, understanding and articulating the core benefits to help promote the service to our teams and contribute to refining our sales material.You’ll bring the right attitude. We’re looking for people with a positive ‘can-do’ attitude, a passion to succeed as an individual and an influential teammate. You will also embrace feedback, using it to inspire change, and enjoy a role which stretches you creatively.You’ll need to be data literate. Demonstrating expertise within our panel data and how we can enhance this with attitudinal research would be critical.
 Kantar benefits25 days holidays plus your birthday off!Option of flexible hybrid workingEmployee Assistance ProgrammePrivate Medical & Dental InsuranceEyecare VouchersLife Assurance & Income ProtectionCycle to Work Scheme
 

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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’re 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’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.