Senior Director, Growth & Strategy (Sales / Business Development)

New York, NY

Kantar

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POSTED ON: 06/08/2023

New York, NY

Senior Director, Growth & Strategy (Sales / Business Development)

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. Kantar’s Profiles division is home to the world’s largest audience network.

With access to 170m+ people in over 100 global markets, we offer unrivalled global reach with local relevancy. Validated by industry leading anti-fraud technology, Kantar’s Profiles Audience Network delivers the most meaningful data with consistency, accuracy, and accountability – all at speed and scale.

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Sales Director, New Business Director, Business Development Director, Client Development Director Profiles is a key division of Kantar and home to the world’s largest audience network. It has a global footprint across Europe (40%), the Americas (40%) and APAC (20%).

Many of the world’s leading brands including Facebook, Google, Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Amazon and Alibaba trust us to collect reliable insights from global panellists to advance their business strategies. We are passionate about the work we do, and the impact we have on our clients’ businesses is far reaching.

Profiles currently holds a 10% share in the $3b panel industry but we have ambition, a robust 3-year business plan and the financial backing of our private equity owners (Bain Capital) to grow to be the #1 player in this sector.

The role of Director, Growth & Strategy is critical to accelerating the growth of enterprise business sales in the Americas.

At Profiles, we start with 100% quality sources, add in advanced technology, and finish with a generous helping of expertise. This is why more than 2,000 brands trust us for our decades of experience and we are proud to have:

Consistent record for building higher quality panels and superior sampling engines

Leading anti-fraud technology

Award-winning expertise on blending samples and managing fieldwork

Exclusive access to proprietary tools for faster, efficient data collection

Engaged panellists who consider us industry-leaders in their NPS and Trustpilot scores

Patented methods for detecting and preventing fraud

Established relationships with world-leading publishers and data suppliers

The Role!

The Director, Growth & Strategy will be part of the broader Kantar America's Sales organization and will be an important contributor of new revenue generation for the Profiles Division.

This role will focus on selling new, enterprise clients quantitative research solutions from our proprietary assets. This role will focus on selling brands research in the form of field & tab and/or agile solutions like Kantar’s proprietary Accelerated Answers and Kantar Marketplace.

The ideal candidate will have experience in quantitative research sales and will have demonstrated the ability to close new, enterprise revenue.

What You'll Do...Build new pipeline of promising, brand direct clients across core industry verticals.

Exceed quarterly and annual revenue targets by prioritizing activities and leveraging resources.

Qualify prospective clients, identify opportunities and continuously lead sales pipeline.

Leverage Profiles solutions and identifying best offering for client & Kantar.

Build and maintain client relationships to ensure client renewals and new opportunities.

Lead the sales cycle from first inquiry to close to final delivery.

Produce strategic territory and account plans to build business and deliver against goal.

Leverage CRM interface to maintain accurate, focused tracking of sales pipeline.

Build and grow highly collaborative relationships with Sales peers and client support teams.

What You'll Bring...Experience in winning new business and expanding existing client accounts.

Working knowledge of the Sample Market Research industry.

Ability to build and maintain strong and collaborative client partnerships.

Experience in delivering multiple projects concurrently, excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills.

High levels of logical thinking & problem-solving skills with the ability to work innovatively to deliver both short-term and long-term goals.

Strong commercial awareness and desire to help the business deliver on its financial objectives.

A passion for Sample Panel research, excellent communication skills and experience of working in fast-paced and evolving environments.

A desire to further build the profile of our team by presenting at industry conferences and seminars / events, and other activities.

Ideas and experience to help shape Profiles’ continued growth

Benefits:

We provide a comprehensive, highly competitive benefits package, including

Medical plans with comprehensive, affordable coverage for a range of health services

Health Savings Account/FSADental, Vision and benefits to cover unique healthcare needs

Wellness Program401k with matching

Tuition Reimbursement, Commuter benefits

Unlimited PTOThe salary range for this role in USA (remote working) is $120,000 – $140,000 (fixed salary) plus a variable Sales Incentive Plan. Your final base salary will be settled based on several factors which may include but are not limited to location, work experience, skills, knowledge, education and/or certifications.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity, therefore we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status or any other legally protected characteristics.

JOIN USAt 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.

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Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together.

We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

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