Senior Researcher / Associate Director - Qualitative at Kantar

Purpose of the role
The Senior Researcher / Associate Director – Qualitative in Nigeria, will be responsible for the complete management of business, with direct responsibility managing client relationships and projects and building a strong qualitative team. This role encompasses covering strategic planning, talent management, and delivery of financial targets.

As part of this role you will be required to:

• Develop measurable business/financial goals for self and others
• Be accountable for and drive financial performance for your business unit - achieve annual agreed revenue growth and profitability
• Develop an expertise led organization that aims to exceed client expectations, anticipate future needs and deliver excellence
• Engage in high level client interaction to hunt and lead the development of big business opportunities
• Actively promote a learning culture that accelerates the development of expertise
• This role will be based in Nigeria, but may require working with multiple geographies including occasional travel as needed.

Knowledge and experience required:  

• Demonstrate excellence as a Qualitative practitioner and view Qualitative as a strategic, consultative tool
• At least a HND/B.SC or equivalent in Statistics, any of the sciences, 10 - 15 years of market research - related industry experience
• Strong marketing (research) knowledge – at least 5 to 10 years’ experience
• Good leadership skills with a particular emphasis on coaching and mentoring
• Passionate about solving strategic problems through creative, custom solutions
• Previous working in an environment where you can partner with clients on their most critical business challenges
• You have developed your capability to the point where you can confidently challenge clients and help them ask the right questions – not just take client orders
• You are driven by excellence and want to grow client relationships through providing outstanding results
• You have depth of experience in strategic qualitative work, in ethnography based research and in using cultural insight to solve client problems
• You want to use the capability you have developed to increase the expertise of others and help shape our offer
• You show empathy and respect for differences in mindsets and skills in the business environment; respect the values and diversity, skills and background that others bring and effectively utilize this knowledge to lead, motivate and drive change
• You want to be a key part of a team of globally recognized, prestigious leaders driven to put the quality back into qual.