Director

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Job Details

Main Responsibilities

Working Relationships

• Internal – Business unit head, research mid-management, research executive, supervisor or other departments relevant managers and staff
• External – Key contact person with key accounts and regular projects coordinator

Job Description

• Maintain long-term business relationship with existing clients
• Lead and manage a team of researchers, including recruitment, job allocation, performance management and coaching
• Manage research projects, and provide professional client servicing
• Write winning research proposal and present to clients
• Provide advanced research analysis and add-value insights and recommendations
• Write research report and make presentation to clients
• Be actively involved in business plan and organization development
• Be actively involved in marketing activities and events, ie. Client Seminar, Professional Conference, Public Speech, etc.
• The Research Director will be expected to contribute to departmental or team targets by Having overall responsibility for all of the annual targets; Mentoring RM's and below (business development, account handling, research projects); Developing new accounts or sectors and business

Job Requirements

• Bachelor or above Degree
• At least 10 years work experience in market research, preferred in international research agencies
• Solid understanding and insight of marketing and business management
• Strong and broad research methodology and specific technology skills on market research
• Deep insight and analysis on specific industry
• Fluent in English and Mandarin
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Proficient in office software and skillful in statistics tools, such as SPSS, SAS etc
• Strong client servicing, business development and negotiation skills
• Strong people management and leadership skills
• Strong time and project control and management skills
• Skillful and efficient in problems solving
• Team oriented, logical and insightful thinking and be willing to work under pressure
• Trust worthy and loyalty
• Confident, initiative and be brave to undertake responsibilities
• Self-motivated, full of passion, and inspire morale of the team

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Location

Guangzhou, A Tower CICChina

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’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.