Senior Vice President, Media Solutions Strategy

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Kantar LLC

Job Title: Senior Vice President, Media Solutions Strategy

Location: Norwalk, CT

Duties: Lead in designing and acquiring new clients for the media group and managing large client research programs through to completion; Own specific account engagements and responsible for the client relationship, financial targets and profitability of the account; Ensure technical operational advancements and efficiencies are being accomplished and rolled out to the entire media team (120 people); Lead client discovery sessions to inform solutions design architecture for Media opportunities and proposals; Design and lead cross-solution engagements and insights with Brand, Media, Creative and Qualitative components; Work closely with Commercial leads to identify opportunities and design strategies for business growth; Socialize new products and proprietary assets to build and expand client relationships; Remain abreast on market developments and trends to provide perspective to our clients on emerging themes in the industry, including the impact on proprietary solutions; Own a commercial growth target to ensure client success and satisfaction across all product solutions across Media engagements; Assess and manage performance metrics of accounts, mitigate risk, and proactively manage financial targets; Ensure the development of training materials and deployment of Media solutions across the total Media team ? methodology technicalities, product knowledge, data analysis, writing and delivering oral presentations; Assess strategy and assist in the deployment across the Media group; Partner with Media operations to ensure strategy is progressing, and the proper roll out and tech expansion aligns with executive leadership directives; Lead and inspire team while strengthening and expanding the relationship between Kantar and NA client teams; Work with Media Team leadership to identify necessary resources and staffing for new projects; Manage subject matter experts in various fields that deliver on the media strategy.

Work Schedule: 8:30am to 5:30pm.

Job Requirements:

Minimum education requirement: Bachelor?s degree in marketing or a related Business or Social Sciences field, or equivalent combination of education and/or work experience. In lieu of a four-year bachelor?s degree, employer will accept a combination of degrees or diploma that total 4 years, or 8 academic semesters, or 3 years or 6 academic semesters plus 3 years of related employment experience.

Minimum experience requirement: 8 years of experience leading data-driven marketing research programs across creative, media and brand.

Minimum special skills requirement: Must have 5 years? experience: As subject matter expert (SME) on blended/custom research designs across Brand, Media, Creative and Qualitative engagements; Partnering with sales teams to strategically position media measurement solutions with complimentary engagements across solutions (e.g. creative testing and brand equity measurement); As SME in media for new business pitches to win proposals; and Designing data-driven business cases using academic, primary and secondary marketing research, across Telco, Financial, CPG, Entertainment, and Tech industries.

Must have 3 years? experience: Building relationships with senior clients (Senior Directors to Chief Marketing Officers) at brand companies, publishers and media and creative agencies; Translating business requirements into solutions, and effectively positioning solution importance and value in terms of business impact and financial return; Influencing decision making across large (internal and external) matrix organizations to ensure robust research methodology experience, creative and media effectiveness, and research techniques; Managing training, learning, and development strategies across various levels and proficiencies related to media effectiveness, data analysis, marketing research methodologies, and designing materials for oral presentations; Managing and strategizing financial performance to ensure profitability across accounts and projects; and Managing and strategizing team resourcing to ensure business needs are met based on client investment. Work remote from home allowed. Some domestic travel required for leadership meetings and/or client meetings.

THIS POSITION IS ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS UNDER KANTAR?S EMPLOYEE REFERRAL PROGRAM

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. 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 wellbeing 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.

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status or any other legally protected characteristics.

Privacy and Legal Statement

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (?Kantar?). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.

The salary range for this role in the Norwalk, CT area is $223,600.00 - $262,500.00. Your final base salary will be determined based on several factors which may include but are not limited to location, work experience, skills, knowledge, education and/or certifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Location

Norwalk, MerrittUnited States of America

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 competitiveand alsoto 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 andwell beingis 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.

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