Senior Client Director, Client Growth & Innovation

• Senior Client Director, Client Growth & Innovation Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) | London
• Reporting to: UK CPG Industry Leader

Kantar helps the world’s most influential brands grow by combining deep human understanding with advanced technology.

We move beyond standalone insights to deliver connected, decision‑ready intelligence that helps brands act with confidence in a more complex world.

At Kantar, smart, curious people work together on challenges that genuinely matter.

We’re known for helping brands make better decisions.

In this role, you’ll help some of the UK’s most important Consumer Packaged Goods clients turn complex growth challenges into clear, connected action.

As Senior Director, Client Growth & Innovation, you’ll own and grow a portfolio of strategic client relationships.

You’ll work with senior leaders across marketing, innovation, brand, category and insights to shape growth agendas, identify opportunities and connect clients with the best of Kantar.

This is a visible commercial role for someone who enjoys senior client conversations, understands how innovation can unlock growth, and can bring people together around work that creates measurable impact.

• What you’ll be doing
• Own and grow a portfolio of strategic Consumer Packaged Goods client relationships, building account plans that increase Kantar’s impact and share of client investment.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client leaders, including Chief Marketing Officers, Innovation Directors, Brand Leaders, Category Directors and insights teams.
• Lead strategic conversations on growth, portfolio expansion, innovation and brand strategy.
• Connect innovation opportunities with Kantar’s wider brand, creative, media and commercial capabilities to create integrated client solutions.
• Bring together specialists across Kantar’s practices, solutions and geographies so clients experience us as one connected growth partner.
• What success looks like
• Trusted advisor status with senior CPG stakeholders.
• Sustainable revenue growth and account expansion.
• Increased cross‑sell and penetration of Kantar capabilities.
• Successful orchestration of multidisciplinary Kantar teams.
• Meaningful contribution to Kantar's growth ambitions within the CPG vertical.
• What’s in it for you

Work on strategic relationships with major Consumer Packaged Goods organisations, helping shape decisions that affect brand, innovation and commercial growth.

Be part of a business focused on Intelligence for Brand Growth, combining human understanding, technology and connected intelligence.

Collaborate across disciplines, solutions and geographies to bring the best of Kantar to clients.

Join a culture shaped by curiosity, collaboration and people from many backgrounds, disciplines and perspectives.

Benefits

• Access benefits including Life Leave, Volunteering Days, an enhanced pension scheme and enhanced parental leave.

Please be aware, the majority of our roles are hybrid, working three days a week in our office.

We’re not able to offer visa sponsorship or help with relocation support for this role.

Please make sure you’ve got the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying.

Location London, South Bank Central United Kingdom.

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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