Graduate Executive Insights Warwick 2021

This is a graduate role within a dynamic, world leading Marketing Research company. An 18-month fast-track development programme covering different aspects of Marketing Research followed by a permanent role in a team best suited to you. Our scheme will provide you with the skills and opportunities to accelerate your career with us, with another part of our large UK and global network or, should you choose to move on, with any number of companies who regard spending time at Kantar as the perfect grounding.

Role responsibilities

From Day 1 you will be working on live projects and talking to our clients who represent more than half of the world’s most famous brands. You’ll be learning on the job, supported by people dedicated to helping you learn the ropes and get the most from your experiences. Our rotational scheme means you will gain exposure to a variety of clients, research approaches (e.g. qualitative, quantitative as well as non-survey/search/social data and analytics) and develop your:

• Knowledge of marketing levers and the drivers of brand growth and business success
• People skills
• Professional skills
• Client relationship management skills
• Communication skills
• Organisational skills
• Commercial acumen
• Collaboration skills
• Data integration and blending skills

This includes several weeks set aside for world-class training in these and other areas.

Person specification

Successful grads have come from a broad range of subjects (the arts, sciences, languages, economics, maths, anthropology, data sciences, theology, criminology) so we are not looking for a particular background degree. What’s more important is that you:

• Have a self-starter attitude to expertise development
• Are friendly & sociable, able to build strong relationships quickly
• Are interested in building a wide, effective personal and professional network
• Have a strong sense of curiosity
• Are motivated by resolving challenging questions or solving problems
• Are adaptable
• Are comfortable managing and meeting deadlines
• Are conscientious with high personal standards of delivery

We’re looking for wide, diverse teams so whoever you are, if these sound like you, apply now!

Rewards

• 25 days holiday (increasing with length of service)
• Income protection
• Life assurance
• Private medical
• Contributory Pension
• A comprehensive and award winning flexible benefits scheme offering discounted shopping vouchers and a bike to work scheme just to mention a few

About Kantar Insights Division

We are the Insights Division, Kantar. Along with the rest of Kantar, our mission is to understand people to inspire growth. We partner with our clients to provide insights, direction and advice so they can make better business decisions in 5 key areas of marketing:

• Building and managing strong brands to deliver short and long term business growth
• Creating emotionally engaging, effective advertising that delivers return on investment
• Media allocation, context and channel choices
• Development of new products and services from concept to launch and beyond
• Delivering a positive and powerful customer experience

We are proud of our work and our great team spirit. If you would like to work closely with other friendly, intelligent people, solving problems and collaborating on market research projects then this is the job for you.

Begin your journey by applying for our 2021 intake.

Our selection process aims to match the best candidate to our graduate programme. We do this by assessing your abilities using a variety of tools throughout our recruitment process.You can expect to complete an online test, video interview and have the time to prepare a presentation which you will be expected to deliver at assessment day which will be held in the Spring.

The assessment day has two main purposes:

• Give you the opportunity to better understand our business, the role of a graduate and meet some of our people
• For you to showcase who you are and what you can bring to our team.

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients.  Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity, therefore we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status or any other legally protected characteristics.

If you have a disability or are neuro divergent and require support with your application, please contact graduaterecruitment@kantar.com.