Business Operations Director
Company: Kantar
Location: Jackson
Posted on: June 15, 2022
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Job Description:
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**
**BUSINESS OPERATIONS DIRECTOR**
REMOTE-ANYWHERE IN USA ( PREFERABLY CANDIDATES IN THE EASTERN TIME
ZONE)
Kantar Consulting is a specialist growth consultancy. With over
1,000 analysts, thought leaders, software developers and expert
consultants we help clients develop and execute brand, marketing,
retail, sales and shopper strategies to deliver growth. Kantar
Consulting owns market leading assets including PoweRanking,
GrowthFinder, Global Monitor, RetaiI IQ, RichMix, XTEL and
Marketing, Insights and Purpose 2020. We track 1200 retailers
globally, have purchase data on over 200 million shoppers and
forecast social, cultural and consumer trends across the world.
Join us and you'll be part of 30,000 colleagues and 12 world
leading research, data and insight brands at Kantar.
KANTAR CONSULTING'S XTEL TRADE OPTIMIZATION SOFTWARE IS A POWERFUL,
END-TO-END SOLUTION SUPPORTING THE TRADE PROMOTION LIFECYCLE, FROM
PLANNING THROUGH RETAIL EXECUTION, SALES INTELLIGENCE, AND
DISTRIBUTOR MANAGEMENT FOR THE GLOBAL CONSUMER GOODS INDUSTRY.
Are you looking for the next challenge? We are seeking a BUSINESS
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR to join our fast-paced Global Services team and
play a key role in designing and implementing industry-leading
Trade Promotion Management/Sales Force Automation solutions for
global FMCG companies. We are seeking a strong candidate who can
leverage their technical knowledge and broad in-field experience to
drive the design and implementation of our product portfolio.
https://www.kantar.com/expertise/consumer-shopper-retail/sales-performance-platform
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**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Drive operational improvement/best practice regionally ensuring
they are aligned with the Global Services Organisation strategy and
methodology; and communicate their relevance and importance across
the regional team
- Partner with sales to ensure efficient execution of services
activities to support the sales cycle. Assess new business
opportunities, drive the regional bid management process, and
support bid preparation for reviews and approvals
- Maintain constant knowledge of current and upcoming projects and
business development activities to support capacity/demand planning
with internal and partner resources
- Measure the regional business effectiveness and generate
forecasts/operational analysis/reporting (resourcing, financial,
project accounting, productivity, KPIs, etc.) for Regional and
Global Leadership
- Propose actions and recommendations to improve the overall
performance and effectiveness of the regional team as part of
continuous improvement.
- Work with the project teams to control labour/3rd party costs and
people utilization to align to revenue and margin commitments
- Partner with the PMO to run operational reviews, compliance
validations and audits
**REQUIREMENTS**
- Commercially orientated - highly experienced in managing
P&Ls, understanding risk, contract/SOW management and KPI
management
- A background in professional services
- Strong risk and stakeholder management, negotiation and
communications skills, both written and verbal, particularly
reporting to senior level executives
- Independent thinker with a proactive, flexible and hands on
approach
- Fluent in English
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Strong analytical skills and ability to make data driven
decisions.
- Able to thrive in fast paced environments with frequent change as
standard
- A strong teamwork ethic with a proven ability to work
collaboratively
**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.
**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 competitiveand alsoto
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
andwell beingis 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.
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