Associate Director, Consulting

Overview

Kantar Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. To start a career that is out of the ordinary, please apply. Job Details: At Kantar Consulting our strategic consultants around the world partner with our clients to inspire actionable solutions that drive brand growth. We are an integral part of Kantar working with marketing leadership and leveraging Kantar Intellectual Property and capabilities to land the practical implications and actionable recommendations for portfolio and brand growth.

We Are Experts On The Following Offers:

• GrowthFinder: we identify new space for brands to grow and optimise clients’ portfolio and go to market strategy, finding incremental spaces based on a deep, commercialised understanding of where demand sits in markets and categories today and tomorrow.
• Brand Strategy: we design the right growth trajectory for each brand, articulating its positioning, architecture, and core culturally relevant messaging.
• Futures & Innovation: we help anticipate and plan for future through trend driven scenarios which shape the biggest innovation opportunities.
• Organisational Performance: we design winning commercial operating models and embed behaviour change through capability programmes.
• Valuation: we conduct bespoke brand valuation to capture the value of the brand(s) and define holistic ways to act upon their key growth drivers.

Role Overview

If you have a strong background in Marketing, Brand Management, or Consultancy at an experienced consultant level, and the ability to act as a trusted advisor to senior clients, managing relationships, expectations, and applying our solutions to solve complex challenges, then this is your opportunity to make a transformative impact. Join Kantar’s Consulting team as an Associate Director, where you’ll lead by example beyond project delivery. You’ll inspire and develop your team, take full ownership of client relationships, and identify opportunities for cross-sell and new business within existing engagements. Additionally, you’ll play a key role in shaping and enhancing our practice areas and solution offerings, driving continuous improvement and innovation.

Role Requirements:

Aligned with Kantar’s Success Factors Framework, Associate Directors are expected to demonstrate:

• Lead with Impact: Takes ownership of projects with confidence. Own client relationships and drive strategic direction locally, ensuring project success with minimal senior oversight.
• Solve Problems Decisively: Tackle complex client challenges with clarity and logic. Elevate thinking and approaches across and beyond projects.
• Contextualise Meaningful Data: Apply industry insight to frame client issues. Use Kantar data to challenge assumptions and build strategic narratives.
• Guide Business Action: Spots new business opportunities in live projects, leads proposals and involves senior team to capture the opportunity.
• Connect to Win: Collaborate across Kantar to shape winning solutions. Build bridges beyond Consulting to deliver integrated client value.
• Build Great Teams: Foster a culture of respect, growth, and celebration. Develop talent and retain high performers through inclusive leadership.
• Drive Lasting Change: Champion scalable solutions and thought leadership. Innovate practice areas to align with market trends and future needs.
• Own Commercial Success: Considered a partner and solution expert by clients. Understands the levers of profitability and has overall accountability for deliverying project recoverability.

Role Requirements (continued): As the successful role holder, you will have experience in brand marketing for a global brand or in a brand consulting organisation or related professional services. Experience with client, team and project management, shaping marketing consulting solutions including deliverables and scope. You will have a consistent track record of shaping and converting opportunities into new business within existing projects and client relationships.

Location
Amsterdam, Amsteldijk, Netherlands

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.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Business Development and Sales
• Industries