Research Associate -Management- Kantar Graduate Accelerated Program

The Programme

Kantar Graduate Recruitment Program is a two-year program, which consists of development modules, mentorship, challenging assessments, and on-the-job learning.  
 
If you are passionate to begin your career in the market research industry, this is an entry level role to the industry which enables you to develop strong foundations in insights-based consulting. 
 
The Research Associate is responsible for learning the brand offer and ways of working to deliver efficient and timely support for clients.  
 
The role includes supporting the team to prepare questionnaires, presentations & reports, manage projects & engage clients. 
 
Equally important, as part of the two-year-program you will be required to actively participate in a series of trainings, mentorship, examinations, and work practices at all Kantar divisions.

What You Will Do

The primary responsibility is to provide day-to-day support to Directors, Managers and Executives across a range of accounts and create meaningful impact on our client’s businesses.  
 
Your contributions to the team are:

• Project management and general administration of the end-to-end research project. 
• Responsible for maintenance of normative databases, for coordinating & monitoring accurate and timely delivery of scripts, charting, fieldwork & data provision from relevant departments. 
• Account management – responsible for the accurate & timely delivery of accounts outputs including data tables, workshops, presentations, and reports. 
• Works efficiently by planning, reviewing, improving and streamlining processes & systems without compromising quality. 
• Analysis & research expertise – understand data from various sources, implements research solutions to drive meaningful insight for clients’ needs and their business. 
• Client management & consultancy; apply basic level of knowledge and understanding of your clients and their business in all interactions with clients, and deliverables and analysis conducted for them.

Required Skills and Abilities

• You are passionate to demonstrate your enthusiasm in developing a career in the world of consumer data and insights. 
• Highly organized person to be able to juggle multiple projects and ensure timely client delivery 
• You have a keen eye for minutiae – detailed oriented. 
• You possess a solid analytical skill; comfortable dealing with numbers, big data, and keen to learn how to turn data into compelling insights. 
• Dedicated, energetic, and willing to put extra efforts at work with high achievement and result orientation. 
• You have strong communication skills (verbally and written) as your confident in speaking to the team, clients, and partners is essential.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Holds minimum Bachelor’s Degree from Communication Research, Marketing, Statistics, Math, Economics, Psychology, Sociology, Mass Communication, Management, Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or any related field. 
• You are a fresh graduate or have less than 1 year working experience. 
• Proficient command of English in both verbal and written. 
• Computer literate, especially in projects/statistics related applications, advanced MS Excel and MS PowerPoint would be preferred.

Begin your journey with us by applying to Kantar Philippines - Graduate Recruitment Program 2024! 
 
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 go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in.  
 
Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us. 
 
About Us: 
 
Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company.  
 
We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies.  
 
Kantar’s 30,000 people based in more than 100 countries help the world’s leading organizations succeed and grow. Nobody knows people better than Kantar. We provide insight and inspiration to help our clients, our people and society to create and flourish in an extraordinary world. 
 
Our insights colleagues are experts in human understanding. With expertise covering brand, innovation, creative, media, commerce and customer experience, they help clients define what brands should stand for, how to disrupt and renew their offer, how to connect with audiences and how to win with consumers and customers.