For our Middle East team in Cairo, Kantar Insights is looking for a curious and data savvy Research Executive!
About Kantar:
Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company. 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. Kantar’s 30,000 people based in more than 100 countries help the world’s leading organizations succeed and grow.
Nobody knows people better than Kantar. We provide insight and inspiration to help our clients, our people and society to create and flourish in an extraordinary world. Our insights colleagues are experts in human understanding. With expertise covering brand, innovation, creative, media, commerce, and customer experience, 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.
About the role:
As a Research Executive, you will be supporting the Account Managers and Account Director in successfully delivering Customer Experience research to the portfolio clients. You will partner with teams working on brand equity programmes and Innovation and brand analytics.
You will assist the team in building client relationships on pitches/proposals, leveraging sector expertise & insight. The primary responsibility is to provide day to day support to your team based in Dubai across a range of accounts across FMCG categories and create meaningful impact on our client’s businesses.
What you'll be doing:
Project management: Prioritize project requirements and delivery, determine tasks and actions for executive team, schedule and meet deadlines, brief support services, manage and evaluate project progress.
Project design & data collection: Provide research recommendations, apply quantitative research methodology and recommend Kantar Research Surveys products. Set standards of excellence, ensuring high quality through thorough checking procedures, conducting detailed checks of proposals, questionnaires, discussion guides, presentations.
Project output & reporting: Give advice on analysis techniques, on “finding the story”, finalizing and ensuring strategic content of conclusions and recommendations, always adding value to research results.
Client management: Acquire a clear understanding of client business and needs, build sustainable relationships, manage general client expectations, and liaise with the client on all aspects of the study, from briefing to presentation on a project basis.
The skills & experience you'll need:
Academic degree, preferably in Marketing or Business Administration (or any other relevant field).
Strong communication skills with fluency in both English and Arabic.
A passion for marketing, research and consumer behaviour.
Knowledge of quantitative research methodologies and data analysis (e.g. SPSS).
A desire to drive the collective success of your team and to provide an exceptional client experience.
Excellent organisation skills, such as time management and multitasking.
Attention to detail and accuracy.
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 are 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.
Interested?
Send us your application today! For more information, please contact Anne-Lise Bosmans, EMEA Talent Acquisition Specialist (Anne-Lise.Bosmans@Kantar.com).
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We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.
We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.
We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. 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, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.