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Senior Analyst, Retail Insights

Kantar, the world\xe2\x80\x99s leading data, insights, and consulting company, is expanding its Retail Insights practice. Through a syndicated license platform, Retail IQ, action orientated events, and strategic advisory, this expert team helps leading and challenger brand manufacturers solve immediate challenges and realize long-term growth ambitions. As a member of the Retail Insights practice, you\xe2\x80\x99re an essential part of our connected business covering retail, shopper insights, perfect category, and operational performance. Our collaborative and team-based work environment blends the spirit of supporting team goals, while providing the direction and resources to ensure your continuous professional development. This is an exciting opportunity to help some of the world\'s most loved brands shape their future success in a dynamic and fast evolving retail environment. You will be primarily responsible for drug/pharmacy but will be involved in coverage of wider grocery and non-grocery channels. Providing expert opinion and strategic advice on this crucial area to the likes of Unilever, P&G, Haleon, L\xe2\x80\x99Or\xc3\xa9al, Reckitt, and Bayer.

Do you want to\xe2\x80\xa6

• Help shape the future of well-loved brands?
• Enable clients to make data-driven decisions?
• Provide a respected source of actionable insights?
• Unearth client pain-points and seek new ways to relieve them?
• Work closely with clients to convey clear actionable advice and content?
• Deliver tactical advice to clients to help them deal with today, win tomorrow?
• Create content that establishes Kantar as the primary source of retail thought leadership?
• Establish yourself as a true subject matter expert, building a strong network of clients?
• Become a trusted advisor, and ensure RetailiQ is seen as the gateway to strategic advisory?

If the answer is yes, then Retail Insights is for you!

What would you be doing?

• Developing and executing a dynamic content plan that aligns with the market outlook and clients\xe2\x80\x99 strategic goals.
• Writing and publishing engaging and analytically driven content on RetailIQ, including blogs, presentations, articles, and more.
• Collaborating across teams to gather insights, ideas, and information necessary for creating impactful content.
• Generating content quickly and efficiently while maintaining a high level of quality and accuracy.
• Crafting content that demonstrates a strong understanding of different writing styles and adapting messaging appropriately for the target audience.
• Staying up to date with industry trends, competitor activities, and emerging best practices to ensure the content remains innovative and competitive.
• Conducting thorough research to ensure factual accuracy and credibility of information presented in the content.

• Epitomizing knowledge and thought leadership at our industry events, client workshops/seminars
• Acting as a trusted advisor to clients on select strategic advisory projects

Why should you join us?

If you have a passion for retail, robust opinions on how it is evolving, a strong desire to become a trusted advisor and want to be recognised in the industry as an expert, then Retail Insights is for you. As part of the team, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be given autonomy to take ownership of your content plan and empowered to ensure it meets clients\xe2\x80\x99 needs. The mix of core syndicated content and wide variety of advisory projects means you\xe2\x80\x99ll very quickly become knowledgeable in all aspects of our offer, including route to market, channel strategy, revenue management, distributor management, and trade execution, and route to consumer. Kantar\xe2\x80\x99s syndicated solutions are a growth pillar, and RetailiQ is a crucial element of our strategy. Our thought leadership is the bedrock of everything we do, and we\xe2\x80\x99re at the heart of this. Join us and accelerate your career as a retail expert and trusted advisor to clients.

What are we looking for?

• Passion for identifying emerging routes to the consumer and shopper
• Desire to determine how legacy retailers are adapting to next generation commerce
• Ability to derive clear causations for FMCG in navigating the new consumer and shopper realities
• A flair for writing enjoy presenting on retail trends to senior audiences
• Commercial acumen, and ability to manage senior stakeholders
• Effective time and project management skills
• Ability to analyse and draw actionable insights from qualitative and quantitative research
• Astute with data and financial analysis, marketing sizing and forecasting

Who would you report to?

Principal Analyst

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Capabilities:

• Learn key skills to become a capable and complex thinker. Key skills include business analysis, financial analysis and reporting, market sizing, forecasting and data management.
• Develop excellent written and verbal communication skills, developing a point of view through managing and writing strategic insights, reports, forecasting, retailer profiles, trend reports.
• Follow trends that interest you and develop analytical and structured thinking to convey complex retail trends in an understandable way.
• Market research skills: working with data assets and survey research findings to synthesise market leading and action-orientated and commercial insights.
• Extract meaningful insights for data and multiple qualitative and quantitative sources

Competencies:

• Develop an understanding of FMCG and retailer needs,
• Learn how to work in a diverse team, managing time across syndicated content creation, advisory projects and helping develop content for events presentations,
• Develop business acumen and understanding of personal KPIs, goals and developing your brand. What do you want to be famous for?
• Contribute to and delivery in part, client presentations for SaaS projects and webinars,
• Develop soft skills around project management, time management, insights creation and presentation skills, as well as working individually and as part of smaller teams, and the wider Insights practice area.

Experiences:

• Be part of a diverse and talented team, with space to grow your brand and expertise. Team culture is strong in Retail Insights, so if your proverb is \xe2\x80\x98team work to make the dream work,\xe2\x80\x99 then this is the place to be!
• We believe in active management and mentorship in Retail Insights. You will meet with your manager each week to discuss your objectives, workload, and goals for purposeful development within your role, and to push you out your comfort zone.
• Advisory projects are a great opportunity for client exposure. Working in small project teams, you will see through projects from end to end. Creating client solutions with leading edge thinking \xe2\x80\x93 advisory projects will make up a 1/3 of your time in your first year as a Senior Analyst
• You will be expected to contribute quickly, own work steams and even manage elements of projects independently.
• Gain both project experience and grow expertise across a wide range of clients, sectors, categories and trends
• Develop your understanding of retail; who are the key players? what is driving growth? What are success indicators? How is retail evolving?
• Huge opportunity to grow your knowledge, skills and expertise in an area of retail that you are excited about, to build both coverage for our clients and your brand within the business.

About Kantar

Kantar is the world\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 30,000 people help the world\xe2\x80\x99s leading organizations succeed and grow.

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Our Culture

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.

It is our priority to retain a culture that enables us to operate on an informal basis and with a flat organizational structure. Teamwork is critical to our success \xe2\x80\x94we strive to foster a team atmosphere in which we all work to achieve a common goal of delivering value to our clients and financial success to the firm.

At Kantar, we aim to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can grow and flourish, as well as helping our clients understand the diverse nature of their own customers. Diversity drives innovation and creativity, enabling us to better serve the needs of our clients. Inclusion creates a culture of belonging, where everyone is empowered to succeed. Kantar is an equal opportunity employer.

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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.

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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 30,000 people help the world\xe2\x80\x99s leading organisations succeed and grow.

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