Associate Account Director at Kantar

Job Requisition ID: R063230
Location: Ikorodu Road, Lagos

Key Responsibilities

• The Associate Account Director (AAD) is an experienced growth consultant and advisor who leads teams and drives powerful and distinctive solutions to clients.  The AAD role represents a leadership role with independent accountability for leading teams, solutions, and client relationships.
• Every AAD leads the delivery of both projects (design, thinking & solutions) and whole client relationships (farming & creating), and is fully responsible for client satisfaction, commercial targets, profitability, and growth of our business.  Great AADs play a further role in challenging and developing our offers, solutions, and organization to be faster, fresher, better, and bigger.
• Additionally, the AAD plays an integral role with our people, understanding that they are leaders and role models, responsible for coaching and developing our people, and for delivery of the broad organisation’s commercial & organisational strategy.
• The suitable candidate would be highly numerate, experienced in the design and delivery of complex non-standard quantitative methods, and very comfortable with complex data and analysis

Their role would include:

• Client relationship leadership:  Our AADs all lead full client relationships, building deep trusted partnerships with our key clients.  This will include taking and interpreting briefs into our organisation, writing proposals, selling Consulting solutions to win business, and leading thinking on solutions to our client’s briefs. 
• Solution leadership:  design, execution, analysis, and growth strategy to create applied solutions to client briefs, using their smart thinking & experience to deliver the convincing, innovative solutions that bring clients back to our teams over and over.  This comprises:
• Designing, executing & delivering great solutions.  A deep understanding of Quantitative analysis and hands-on experience is a MUST in this role.  Elevating analysis to simple, clear solutions.
• Strategic & inspiring thinking, making significant contributions to finding solutions for our client's marketing challenges with fresh and inspiring thinking.
• Writing and presenting intellectually convincing and emotionally appealing proposals & debriefs to meet client briefs.  Good presentation skills are essential to delivering confident, articulate, energetic debriefs. 
• Facilitation, of the development workshop process design, co-facilitation of internal meetings and external client workshops.