Senior Consultant

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**Job Details**:
**ROLE OVERVIEW**

The Senior Consultant (SC) is a trusted expert in our Consulting team, acknowledged by clients and their peers for their deep skill & experience. They are responsible for the design & delivery of great solutions, using their expertise to establish great client relationships. The SC is an established talent - they’re already an expert in quantitative methods and are now growing their skills in high-performing consulting, solution-leadership, storytelling and client management. They work in a team, with consultants supporting their work, and coached & supported by Directors and Associates who they learn from.

SC’s spend time focused the delivery of multiple concurrent projects, involved in both design of great solutions (surveys, analysis frameworks etc) as well as execution of the work content (analysis, project management, storytelling and client management). Great SC’s contribute their own thinking to make solutions faster and better, and work as part of the wider organisation to make our work and workplace better, fresher, and bigger all the time

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

A Senior Consultant's role would include:

- **Client relationship management**: SCs are directly involved in client relationships, using their expertise to build trusted partnerships with our key clients. They contribute to proposals, lead debriefs and create large bodies of content as deep experts to answer client questions.

**Solution drivers**: Our Growth Strategy teams lead Segmentation design, execution, analysis and growth strategy to create applied solutions to client briefs, using their smart thinking & experience to deliver the convincing, innovative solutions that bring clients back to our teams over and over. This comprises:

- Designing, executing & delivering great Segmentation solutions. A deep understanding of Quantitative analysis and hands-on experience is a MUST in this role. Elevating analysis to simple, clear solutions.
- Strategic & inspiring thinking, making significant contributions to finding solutions for our clients’ marketing challenges with fresh and inspiring thinking.
- Writing and presenting intellectually convincing and emotionally appealing proposals & debriefs to meet client briefs. Good presentation skills are essential to deliver confident, articulate, energetic debriefs.
- Facilitation, to be part of workshops to share & co-create content with clients.

**Project delivery of quality, timely solutions **, ensuring projects happen with excellence, often supported by a Consultant. This includes:

- Detailed understanding of project milestones & deliverables, and action to ensure deliverables remain on track
- Sound financial management of own and team’s time on projects
- Supporting learning of junior team members while growing own skills

**WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR**

Smart, expert quantitative and solution thinkers with 5+ years relevant experience and a proven track record. These are experienced leaders who have gained mastery in leadership roles and are ready to move into Consulting.
- **A polished project doer AND thinker **who enjoys taking co-responsibility for projects, working within a team. Experienced practitioners already comfortable with analysis, quantitative research and commercial growth ideas. Segmentation experience a huge plus, but not absolutely required. Has a range of expert skills, and understands the broad strokes of brands and the dynamics of demand.
- **Exceptional project discipline**: Proactive and disciplined, able to oversee all aspects of projects. Solves roadblocks, prioritises well, manages their time effectively.
- **Loves numbers**: Numerate and analytical, enjoys complex data. Makes complex data into simple, insightful solutions. Can navigate complex data but also see the big picture.
- Analytical and strategic: Manages complex, unfamiliar problems well.
- **Creative, unusual thinker**: someone who thinks out the box and is happy to push the boundaries/ challenge conventional research methodologies and thinking on a project by project basis
- **Good team and communication skills**: able to collaborate and build relationships with both clients and our team. Strong written and verbal skills for proposal and presentation purposes.
- **Experience**: minimum of 5 years experience, usually in research or analytics capacities. Consulting experience is an advantage. University degree essential, with excellent scores in disciplines of stats, business science, quantitative research and/or mathematics.

**WHAT WE OFFER**

Kantar Consulting offers the opportunity to work for a leading marketing & Sales consultancy and is part of an extensive international network. All our people have exceptional and diverse backgrounds and great experie