Director - CSR Consulting

Director_CSR Consulting

Responsibilities:

- Strong experience and understanding of the CSR domain

- Understanding of impact research

- Managing client relationships and ensuring client loyalty through quality service delivery

- People management - Driving employee engagement, conducting performance reviews for the team, and addressing issues faced by them effectively

- Delivering quality research to the client through excellent insights that would be helpful for developing an actionable program strategy

- Developing an environment that fosters new work/innovations

- Taking new business initiatives and leveraging skills across units

- Focusing on capability building of the team - training needs identification and ensuring that the team goes through the desired training hours

Experience, Skills, and Knowledge required:

- Possesses strong Social Research skills and in-depth industry awareness of social policies and economic analysis (post-graduation degree in relevant field required, Ph.D. is preferred)

- Overall experience in social research, advisory, or consulting services for 8 or more years (8-12 years)

- Inspires as a role model, imparting the right kind of organizational values to the team below

- Has effective people management skills, with appropriate leadership style in leading the team, maintaining the right balance between task and relationship

- Holds capability to institutionalize improvements in business processes

- Has strong networking skills - building continuous lines of communication with seniors, juniors, peers, and clients for expertise and perspective sharing

- Is competent in understanding synergies across units of Kantar and leverage them toward client delivery

- Reflects thought leadership in day-to-day functioning - giving innovative ideas and demonstrating the confidence to promote or share ideas as actionable insights