Junior Research Executive

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Job Details

Are you looking for an exciting challenge to kickstart your career in market research, with a variety of opportunities for learning and career progression?

Do you enjoy gaining insights from quantitative data, and are you eager to work together with some of the biggest brands in a client-facing role?

Are you a (recent) Marketing/Communications graduate and do you speak English and Dutch/French fluently?

Kantar is looking for Junior Research Executives to join our Brand team in Brussels!

Kantar is an international, advisory organization in the field of data, insights, and advice. We understand how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and then watch anyone. By combining our human understanding expertise with advanced technologies, the 30,000 people within Kantar help the world's universal organizations to succeed and grow.

As a Junior Research Executive at Kantar, you will be part of an enthusiastic and ambitious team that deals with large international clients across various industries to help grow their brand. You will do so by assessing their brand strategy and positioning, closely supervising their brand position and growth, and measuring the impact of their marketing and advertising efforts.

In this role, you will maintain your own client relationships and translate their needs to an adequate research approach. You will share advice and relevant actions for clients based on your research data.

What you'll be doing:

• Act as the first point of contact for the client for your projects.

• Translate business issues into an appropriate research approach.

• Set up quantitative research with support from Kantar network resources.

• Keep track of timelines, project progress and you respond flexibly to urgent requests.

• Analyse and interpret the research results and convert them into strategic advice.

• Present the results to the client and make an impact with our insights.

• Keep an eye on the commercial results of your projects and adjust them where needed.

• Build a relationship with the client through daily interaction, and you are able to recognise opportunities where Kantar can further support the client.

The skills & experience you'll need:

• You have an academic education degree, ideally combined with some work experience in a relevant field such as marketing, communications or psychology.

• You enjoy helping clients and you have a genuine interest in helping large organisations better understand their customers.

• You like numbers and you enjoy analysing data to gain insights.

• You are confident, client oriented and have strong organisational skills.

• You are fluent in Dutch or French, and English.

Join us!

We offer a dynamic job in an inspiring, international, and informal working environment at a leading organization, where you will work together with a team of enthusiastic colleagues on exciting projects for some of the largest companies in the world.

In addition, we offer you:

• A lot of personal responsibility and space to develop own initiatives.

• Plenty of opportunities to learn and develop your career.

• Access to the expertise and innovative tools of an international organization that knows everything about brands and how to make them stronger.

• Regular fun activities with the team.

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 are 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.

Interested?

Apply today with your CV and motivational letter and tell us why you want to join Kantar. If you have questions you may contact Anne-Lise Bosmans, EMEA Talent Acquisition Specialist ([email protected]).

Location

Brussels, Boulevard Saint-LazareBelgium

Kantar Rewards Statement

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. 

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration. 

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes. 

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 help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.