Category Analytics - London, United Kingdom - KANTAR

KANTAR

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

We're the world's leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

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

ROLE MISSION

The Category Analytics Manager position will take ownership of our Retail Sales & Shopper Predictive Analytics offer and play a key role in accelerating a fast-growing business.

The role will report into the Global Operations Director and will work across Technology and Consulting offer areas to deliver first-class, actionable insights grounded in our clients' business questions.

This will be a client facing position that will require interfacing with multiple data sources including Scan/Point of Sale e.g.

Nielsen or IRi, shopper and attitudinal data to build relevant insights across range & assortment as well as Price/Pack architecture.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Develop predictive analytical models within our existing frameworks to address client business questions and feed these through our proprietary tools
Use the models & tools to deliver outstanding analytical advisory and client service including DB management, software testing, leading training sessions & running projects on behalf of clients
Collect, interpret, and analyse data using inhouse resources, third party providers, and/or custom research techniques

KEY OUTCOMES

You should be intellectually curious as well as an excellent communicator who can build strong client relationships and build engaging presentations.

This must be coupled with a keen attention to detail as well as the ability to work independently and lead projects.

You are able to synthesize and interpret data to inform strategic recommendations. You display strong problem-solving skills, in particular translating loosely defined problems into solutions.

Interest in the CPG/FMCG industry is strongly encouraging.

CAPABILITIES

Bachelor's degree
Interest in business, shopper marketing, consumer goods, and retail
Quantitative thinking with strong numeric and verbal reasoning skills
A high level of attention to detail and accuracy
Knowledge of Excel/Google Sheets (Advanced would be advantageous)
Ability to distil & present impactful insight while dealing with large volumes of data
Backend technical skills will be an advantagee.g. SQL (Oracle or MS), Python, R
Strong communications skills to present complex analysis in a concise and effective manner

REWARDS

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 to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

APPLICATION
Country

United Kingdom

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.