Senior Consultant, Consulting Division
Singapore
As a Senior Brand Strategist within the Brand, Human and Culture team, you will help businesses grow by anticipating change, making valuable contributions to culture and adding positive meaning to people’s lives. We are an eclectic mix of futures experts, cultural problem solvers and brand growth specialists looking for the next creative spark to join us.
We are looking for a versatile, passionate and expert brand strategist who can use innovative ways to help our clients to engage and connect more powerfully with the world around them and how it’s changing to drive successful brand and innovation strategy for our key clients.
The right individual must possess:
A voracious curiosity – always on the lookout for new insights, and encourages others, someone who is culturally aware and globally connected!
A creative problem-solving ability- to think analytically and creatively and bring a fresh opinion by joining the dots in unexpected ways.
Proactive / self-starter ability- to look for and build opportunities for themselves and for the company – has ideas, takes initiative and drives action.
Communicates effectively- with project teams, across colleagues all levels and with client management!
Culturally engaged curiosity about- digital content trends, business and current affairs beyond work.
Passion for brands and businesses – crafting, building and redefining how they connect with people, how they communicate, how they evolve and innovate.
To succeed in this role, you will need to be a motivated and insightful standout colleague, always eager to seek responsibility. You will gain exposure to clients, and we will support you in developing your client facing skills.
A critical aspect of the role will allow you to have an excellent opportunity to experience beyond the research process and apply thinking in the wider context of consultancy and commercial issues.
Skills & Experience:
Industry experience: At least 6 years’ of validated ability in brand / cultural insight / futures and or innovation consultancy in Asia-Pacific. Preferably graduated with at least a bachelor’s degree in marketing, strategy cultural or consumer studies or other relevant fields.
Client / Account Management: Experience of supporting on large global accounts, ideally with experience of proposal writing.
Project / Budget Management: Strong project management skills and experience in efficiently handling project budgets from start to finish
Cultural Insight: Evidenced experience of cultural theory / semiotics / cultural insight – able to decode culture, explain how it is changing and apply to client challenges.
Consumer Insight: Experience in qualitative thinking and frameworks, knows how to build and elevate consumer insights.
Critical thinking: Validated strategic problem solver, able to derive strategic recommendations for clients that will make a positive difference to their business. Able to demonstrate powerful thinking about brands, companies and wider cultural issues
Storytelling: Experience of multi-disciplinary approaches (using a mix of source materials or inputs: Qual, quant, cultural content, trends reports etc.), pulling out critical details and recommendations. Finding compelling and visual ways to present a story, and pushing to elevate thinking from ‘what’ to ‘so what’ and ‘what next’
Content delivery: Experience of writing independently with limited senior input to deliver high quality work on time and on budget with well-developed strategic implications and transparency about the application of cultural / futures and trends insight to a client’s business challenge
Facilitation: Experience of moderating / facilitating qualitative explorations or conceptualisation / innovation workshops
Social listening: Knowledge/experience of social media listening / has done analysis of social media inputs and analytics is a plus.
Ability to mentor junior team members (Analyst and Consultant levels) on key skills, e.g. on-the-job training in analysis, storytelling etc.
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.
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