Director, Brand Guidance

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DIRECTOR, BRAND GUIDANCE,

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Want to be part of an exciting team, with an international company and accompany your clients driving their growth? Kantar's Insights division is looking for a new Research Director to join its Brand Guidance team.

Under the responsibility of a Client Partner and within a medium-sized team, with a strong spirit of partnership and excellence, you will oversee a set of key account client relationships and manage a team of between 4 and 6 members, at various levels. The director will own the account profitability, client engagement, retention, growth and maintain the quality of outcomes for all projects. The Director is a client facing role that requires some business development activities and commercial targets to be achieved.

Mission:
This role requires strategic and critical thinking, design, writing and presentation of high valuable and meaningful analyzes to support clients to help them build their marketing plan and their brand strategy through the following:
You will be managing the customer relations with C-Level interlocutors and participate in the development of commercial activity. You will also produce highly valuable and innovative proposals to meet the strategic challenges of your customers.

This is a leadership role where you will help build the team's capability in producing high work quality. Most importantly, you will empower, encourage and develop team members to deliver impactful work.

**Profile**:
We are looking for someone who has demonstrated ability in marketing research (agency or client side) and/or in the area of brand measurement/brand health tracking/brand strategy, and adept at research and analysis and possess excellent writing, editing and oral communication skills.

In addition, you must possess the following:

- Possess a Degree in Marketing, Communication (MA degree), Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or related field
- A minimum of 10 years of total work experience preferably in marketing, market research and client insights
- Strong analytical skills, have acquired an excellent understanding of client needs and possess a real ability to address strategic business questions by proposing innovative responses
- Organized, a problem solver, self-directed, and demonstrate leadership and initiative, while at the same time being a committed team player.
- Validated and proven competence in one of the following areas of expertise: project management overview, brand management, market understanding, people management

Benefits of working at Kantar Insights Malaysia
- Growth opportunity: fast career progression - you own your career journey
- Yearly performance bonus, Life & Medical Insurance, Flexi Benefit, Birthday Leave
- Heavy investment in learning & development: On the job learning, Mentoring, Knowledge Hub
- Hybrid working environment, flexible working hours
- We have a very inclusive & diverse, multicultural team, open and transparent work environment, non-hierarchical.
- Career development and opportunities across different domains: Innovation & PD, Brand & Shopper, Customer Strategies, Qualitative, Advertising, Media & Digital.
- Opportunity to work with Fortune 500 companies, SMEs, government bodies, media owners and NGOs.
- International transfer opportunities for impactful individuals

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 competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

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.

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Kuala Lumpur, Centerpoint NorthMalaysia

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 competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

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 well being is taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse c