Kantar - Director- Data Strategy & Engineering

Company Overview :

KANTAR (www.kantar.com) is the world's leading insights, consulting and analytics company.

We understand how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view more than anybody else. With over 30,000 people, we combine the best of human understanding with advanced technologies to help the world's leading organizations, succeed and grow.

Kantar's Analytics practice creates leading-edge offers focused on Brand and Marketing ROI, Brand Strategy and Innovation, Content Analytics, Data Strategy and Engineering, and Customer Analytics in a way that is unmatched by our competitors.

The convergence of unique human understanding and business expertise, coupled with innovative data and technology solutions, allows us to better predict consumer behavior, providing customers the confidence to make bold and complex decisions and optimize priorities for growth.

For more details visit our page: https://www.kantar.com/careers/experienced-hires/analytics-and-data-science

We currently have an opening for a Director- Data Strategy & Engineering at our Bangalore office.

Key responsibilities :

- Work with marketing clients to help them make smart decisions and then to implement and track them

- Manage day-to-day delivery independently along with analyst team.

- Co-ordination with analysts, statisticians, leading project delivery.

- Playing a team management role

- Work in the areas of sales & category management, Business planning, Marketing ROI and other related initiatives.

- Help extract insights from consumer, sales and other data available and provide data analysis, synthesis & presentation support.

- Play a business development role and generate additional projects from other clients within the organization.

- Ensure all client deliverables meet client expectations in terms of scope, speed & quality

Essential skills and qualities :

- Excellent marketing domain knowledge understanding, particularly in the consumer goods domain.

- Should have experience in handling end-to-end IT project deliverables.

- Should well versed with Project management (Requirement Gathering, Project development life cycle, Stakeholder Management, Resource Management)

- Should be good at Analytical thinking & breaking down large problems into solvable chunks.

- Should be willing to continuously co-ordinate with onsite clients and teams in India and hence handle late night calls as required.

- Have a consulting orientation; gather different perspectives, examples and use them to enrich day-to- day work.

- Willing to travel onsite as and when required

- Hands on with MS Excel

Good to have :

- Any BI tool - PowerBI, Tableau

- SQL, Python, VBA

Qualifications :

- MBA graduates from Tier 1 B- schools.

- 3-5 relevant years from FMCG Industry.

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