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Job Details

Job title: Category Analyst

Location: London, Westgate

Start date: March 2025

Why Us?

In this Graduate position you’ll gain valuable experience of the market research industry and first-hand knowledge of the retail and fast-moving consumer goods industry. You’ll work with some of the world’s leading brands and manufacturers across a range of sectors including, food and drink, health and beauty and fashion. You will have the opportunity to build strong relationships with your clients using our panel and shopper data to help them answer their key business questions.

We want you to be successful and we will invest in your professional development with coaching and training. You’ll learn how to use data and carry out analysis that allows you develop key insights for clients and you’ll create presentations to communicate your point of view and recommendations. The work you do in this role will help to influence and shape client strategies.

Personal specification

Passion and drive to support our ambitious business goals, demonstrating commercial acumen through spotting opportunities with your clients, writing compelling proposals and subsequently meeting sales targets.

Strong people skills and engaging communication style to enable you to build meaningful relationships with both your colleagues and clients.

An interest in analysing data and forming insights to help answer your clients’ key business questions.

Genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for understanding the markets our clients operate in, and shopper and consumer behaviour.

Rewards

You’ll have incomparable exposure – our graduates have delivered their points of view to some of the biggest brand names out there!

On the graduate programme you’ll get:

A comprehensive training programme which will pave the way for you to have a fantastic career in delivering truly amazing insight and achieving your commercial targetsA two-week induction programme where you will learn about our businessThe opportunity to present your thinking, experiences and potential to the senior management team supporting you with your ongoing development and progressionCareer growth - people growth drives our business success, and we are proud that over half of our vacancies are filled through internal moves and promotionsFantastic working culture and environment - colourful and agile working zone with break out spaces

Along with:

25 days holiday (increasing with length of service), along with your birthday off!2 days paid volunteering time-offPension planSubsidised health cash planA comprehensive and award-winning flexible benefits scheme4pm finish on a FridayMentorship programmeOpportunities to get involved in wider Kantar initiatives such as; Pride, Sustainability & I&D recruitment

Minimum requirements (essentials)

2:2 or above University degreeEligible to live and work in the UK. Documented evidence will be required as part of the recruitment process. We are not able to offer visa sponsorship or assist with relocation support for this role. Please ensure you have the right to work in the UK before applying.

Begin your journey by applying for our March 2025 intake:

Our selection process aims to match the best candidate to our graduate programme. We do this by assessing your abilities using a variety of tools.

You can expect to complete an online test, respond to a pre-recorded video interview, and have the time to prepare a presentation which you will deliver at our virtual assessment day.

The assessment day has two main purposes:

Gives you the opportunity to better understand our business, the role of a graduate and meet some of our peopleFor you to showcase who you are and what you can bring to our team

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Country

United Kingdom

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.