Technical Analyst

Media help partners understand the changing advertising landscape. Specialising in audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media, their global coverage and local expertise enable better understanding of media audiences and their relationships with brands.

Kantar Media is a wholly owned but operationally independent part of the Kantar Group.

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Job Details

As people increasingly move across channels and platforms, Kantar Media’s data and audience measurement, targeting, analytics and advertising intelligence services unlock insights to inform powerful decision-making.

Working with panel and first-party data in over 80 countries, we have the world’s fastest growing cross-media measurement footprint, underpinned by versatility, scale, technology and expertise, to drive long-term business growth for our clients and partners.

Job Title: Technical Analyst 

Location: London, Grays Inn Road

Working pattern: Hybrid/Full time

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Role Description         

At Kantar Media, we are experts in understanding the changing media landscape. Our Audience Measurement teams are charged with developing new approaches to measure this and one such solution is our Focal Meter.

All the viewing in the home, delivered via IP using the home Wi-Fi network. We run multiple services that use data from Focal Meters to collect online content across our Panel homes. When it comes to TV and small-screen viewing, we are proud to be the official provider of viewing data for the broadcast channels in the UK, working closely with Barb (formerly known as BARB - The Broadcasters’

Audience Research Board) who are a key player in the UK television and advertising industry. Barb data is used in deciding the making and distribution of TV programmes by commercial TV stations, advertising agencies and advertisers to negotiate prices for commercial airtime and to plan TV advertising campaigns.

So, are you a tech savvy but also analytical, a person who can think on your feet? Apply now and join the team. We are looking to recruit a detailed and hardworking candidate to support both services.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a point of call for internal and external partners.
• Highly organised and able to lead requirements from multiple stakeholders with differing needs.
• Assess viability for non-reported VOD services to be supervised from the ground up.
• Assess new and existing content delivery URLs per VOD service on an ongoing basis.
• Data Analysis experience with the ability to present the findings to various partners, both external and internal.
• Provide analysis on feasibility and implementation using test data to ensure that requirements have been implemented accurately.
• Highly inquisitive, identifying issues or needs and producing clear and detailed requirements for the development team.
• Be able to take initiative and propose new workstreams based on the assessment of the current processes and the landscape of measurement.
• Assist in testing and deployment of new software releases related to processing of data from PM7 and FM2 measurement meters.
• Working to ensure key landmarks are met during roll-out of project.
• Responsiveness to requests with detail, analysis and testing if required
• Keep abreast of requirements for new technology and systems.
• Experienced with a variety of Operating Systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS)
• Basic understanding of Web architecture
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and SQL

Desirable:

• Python experience
• Strong ability to focus on multiple workstreams at the same time.
• System deployment
• Database and data warehouse experience
• Willingness to go above and beyond when necessarily Project Management Experience

Requirements for position

Client/Stakeholder Satisfaction

• Establish credibility with Stakeholder and external.
• Instil trust in stakeholders and the business.

Service Orientated

• To work as One Kantar, focusing on the right outcome for the business.
• Collaborate unconditionally with Stakeholders.
• Apply judgement to data to support business decisions, offering analytic and insights to translate challenges.

Communicator

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to articulate sophisticated scenarios.
• Be responsive, listen and question.

Resilience

• Make difficult decision in a timely manner.
• Confidence to push back when required.

Adaptability

• Be flexible to responding to business needs.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities.

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 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 wellbeing 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.

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 because of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

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Why join Kantar?

We pride ourselves on understanding people, and what makes us think and act the way we do.

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.