Kantar - Research Manager/Senior Research Manager

Who We Are

Kantar Public (earlier SRI/Social & Rural Research Institute) is Kantar's specialized business that caters to the Public Services sector globally.

Job Responsibilities

- Provide insights and information to the policy makers and implementers to help them understand the needs of the citizens/beneficiaries in order to formulate appropriate strategies and investment plans for the public service delivery.

- Help clients develop impactful communication for their social marketing programs.

- Institutionalize and execute the monitoring and evaluation research for clients working in the development sector in order to measure the effectiveness thereby helping them improve the quality and coverage of their service delivery.

- Ability to design rigorous research studies that represent large geographies with varied cultures, diverse education levels, economic and social divide and different levels of development.

- Ability to generate insights and statistically strong evidence for strategy coupled with a significant understanding of the country context and sectors.

Skills Required

- Statistical rigor

- Thorough understanding of the sectors

- Understanding of the people of the country

- Understanding of the sociological & cultural norms that impact the behavior of people

Why Us

- Kantar Public brings in multi-sectoral and multidisciplinary approach to solving the problems of the clients in the development sector. The various business units come together to address the needs of the clients. This multi-sectoral involvement brings deviant-thinking and innovation which is a few steps ahead of the conventional approach to social research.

- The experience of more than two decades of working with various clients in the development sector in the region and across the globe. The clients include government, multilateral and bilateral organizations, domestic and international NGOs, philanthropic organizations, media and CSR units of the large and small corporate houses.

- Strong field infrastructure with high sensitivity to ethical issues related to the execution of the data collection activities and publication of the findings.

- Strong institutional memory which helps carry forward the learning effectively.

- Access to large scale databases which help design and conduct sampling in a rigorous and scientific manner.

- Kantar Public has vast experience and over the last two years, the unit has executed more than 100 studies covering all corners of the country conducting close to 900,000 interviews across all studies spread across the rural population, hidden groups, senior bureaucrats, media, key influencers, health service professionals and policy makers.

- The Kantar Public team consists of professionals with post-graduate and doctoral degrees in sociology, business management, economics, psychology, operations research, development studies and various other dimensions.

Website - http://www.kantar.com/public