Kantar - Director - Data Strategy & Engineering - IIM/MDI/ISB/FMS

We currently have an opening for a Director - Data Strategy & Engineering at our Bangalore office.

Key responsibilities:

- Work with marketing clients to help them make smart decisions and then to implement and track them

- Manage day-to-day delivery independently along with analyst team.

- Co-ordination with analysts, statisticians, leading project delivery.

- Playing a team management role

- Work in the areas of sales & category management, Business planning, Marketing ROI and other related initiatives.

- Help extract insights from consumer, sales and other data available and provide data analysis, synthesis & presentation support.

- Play a business development role and generate additional projects from other clients within the organization.

- Ensure all client deliverables meet client expectations in terms of scope, speed & quality.

Essential skills and qualities:

- Excellent marketing domain knowledge understanding, particularly in the consumer goods domain.

- Should be good at Analytical thinking & breaking down large problems into solvable chunks.

- Should be willing to continuously coordinate with onsite clients and teams in India and hence handle late-night calls as required.

- Have a consulting orientation; gather different perspectives, examples and use them to enrich day-to-day work.

- Willing to travel onsite as and when required

Qualification:

- MBA graduates from Tier 1 B- schools.

- 3+ relevant years from FMCG Industry.