Strategy Manager

Overview

In this Strategy Manager role, you’ll steer the strategic direction for Kantar’s Solutions & Product organisation and drive investments and roadmaps. You work with senior leaders across cross-functional domains to translate complex questions into actionable plans. You’ll shape market opportunities, build business cases, and guide transformation programs that link strategy to outcomes. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of strategy, product and transformation, offering the chance to influence decisions at executive level.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• 25 days leave
• volunteering leave
• life event leave
• competitive salary and bonus
• company pension

Responsibilities

• Support business planning and strategic decision-making across Solutions and Product
• Assess market and commercial opportunities via market sizing, competitor analysis, client insight, and financial modelling
• Develop business cases and recommendations for investment prioritisation
• Shape Product and Solutions roadmaps using market and commercial evidence
• Lead strategy and transformation projects from problem definition to implementation planning
• Translate strategy into clear plans, milestones and success measures
• Build trusted relationships across Product, Solutions, Commercial, Finance and Engineering
• Develop and present clear recommendations to senior leaders, including executive and board-level audiences

Key requirements

• Strong structured problem-solving skills and comfort with ambiguity
• Excellent analytical and commercial capabilities (market sizing, financial modelling, business-case development)
• Experience turning complex analysis into actionable recommendations
• Understanding of how strategy informs product, roadmap and investment decisions
• Experience leading complex projects from question through implementation planning
• Strong communication, storytelling and stakeholder influencing skills
• Judgement, curiosity and autonomy in a fast-moving, matrixed organisation
• Experience in management consulting or in-house strategy/transformation (valued)

• communication
• storytelling
• stakeholder influencing
• market sizing
• financial modelling
• business-case development

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