Kantar - Senior Account Manager - B2B Research

Role Mission:

The Account Manager/ Senior Account Manager is a part of the Client Service team who would serve as an Intermediary between Kantar and its clients, with responsibility for revenue & margin assurance & appropriate high levels of service to those clients.

Brand and Kantar:

At Kantar IMRB, we provide innovative solutions to all kinds of marketing challenges. Working with big brands in South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, our research, local knowledge and international databases mean that we know the region's consumers better than anybody else. Join us in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka and you'll be part of 30,000 colleagues and 12 world leading research, data and insight brands at Kantar. At the heart of WPP, our unique consumer insight inspires clients to flourish in an extraordinary world.

Key Outcome Statement:

- Client responsibilities

- Build and maintain client relations - be the interface for one's client/s

- Deliver work in time and of quality standards set by IMRB and the client

- Strong analytical skills, comfortable with disparate sets of information and ability to draw accurate causal linkages

- Ability to understand industry category /vertical and make relevant recommendations

- Develop business by identifying opportunities /clients

Prerequisites:

- Engineer and Post graduate in Management with at least 4-5 years' experience in market research especially in B2B or industrial research

- Strong client focus and pro activeness. Good grasping skills, good project management skills.

- Good presentation and facilitation skills

Capabilities Statement:

- Lead a team of Researchers to service clients

- Draw plans for development of individual team members, train and mentor the team

- Motivate and guide support functions like field /analysis

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