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Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company and our Media colleagues are the experts in understanding the changing advertising landscape. Specialising in audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media, their global coverage and local expertise enable our clients to better understand media audiences and their relationships with brands.
Do you have a keen eye for detail? Love problem solving? Want to build a career in media research working with data?
If so, then the role of Trainee Research & Operations Executive could be perfect for you!
Kantar
Leading the way in the exciting world of media research, we provide the most accurate and comprehensive intelligence on media consumption, performance and value. At Kantar’s Media division we power media choices. Our insight, expertise, and best in class data and services help clients to measure, monitor and select the most effective media.
Kantar division is offering an exciting opportunity in their TGI team to start a career by gaining the technical expertise and experience of working with data. The role comes with a clear career path supported by relevant training and development, allowing anyone keen to learn to progress from Graduate/Trainee to Senior Executive level, while taking on more responsibility within the team.
What Training Do We Offer
A job at Kantar offers lots of exciting development and growth opportunities:
The TGI Executive Development Programme will guide your day-to-day development within the team, taking you from beginner to expert within first couple of years. You will be supported by the team, a mentor, and your manager, and equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to build a successful career in an increasingly data driven environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Questionnaire design
- Fieldwork management
- Liaising with client success teams
- Processing data using bespoke software
- Data cleaning through scripting
- Checking and investigating data issues
- Scripting of online questionnaires
- Creation of the final deliverables
- Project management of the surveys, including dealing with various stakeholders
Capabilities
- Educated to degree level in any discipline (preferred 2:1 minimum, supported by strong A-levels) or equivalent experience
- Excellent logical thinking – ability to understand complex concepts, and draw conclusions by analysing available information
- Ability to understand technology, and to learn how systems work – the team use a variety of tools built to support the highly engineered data building process
- Intermediate Excel skills (importing and formatting data, lookups, pivot tables, functions, conditional logic)
- Interest in working with data
- Knowledge of foreign languages desirable (i.e. French, German, Spanish)
Join Us
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.
Why Join Kantar
We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. 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, nobody knows people better than Kantar.
And because we know people, we like to make sure our people are looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for our people is our highest priority and we encourage our people to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage our colleagues to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all, and we’re flexible in our approach to ensure people feel included and accepted. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, which is why we welcome applications from all background and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not a perfect fit, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.
