Project & Costing Manager Vacancy At Kantar

Kantar Public’s research teams are experts in public policy, service design, behavioural insight and election research, employing over 500 people around the world. Our clients span all continents and include 40 governments.

Job Title: Project & Costing Manager

Role Mission Statement

The objective of this role is maintaining and supporting excellence in costing practice and ensuring that are all project costing are provided adhering strictly to financial guidelines as mandated by the business. Would be responsible for ensuring accurate and consistent costing across teams and brands ensuring uniformity of cost elements which are common across all. Would also support the drive for improved project profitability through provision of the necessary analysis to top management to show trends to drive corrective actions. Would be the local custodian of the KEL costing tool and point of liaison with both local and regional finance teams for all updates

Nobody knows consumers better than Kantar. Providing insight and inspiration to help clients flourish in an extraordinary world, we bring together 12 of the world’s leading research, data and insight brands. At the heart of WPP, our global team of 30,000 people in more 100 countries delivers specialist insight, business strategies and consultancy support.

Key Outcomes

Champion costing process ensuring all costs are accurate and complies with costing process

Generation of important periodic commercial reports like GM and profit analysis by teams and by brands

Smooth coordination of Ops units and other support functions (DC,QC,DP,IT, Admin) when responding to RFQ requests from either the local CS or MCP teams

Development and maintenance of necessary rates cards required for costing

Capabilities Statement

• Ability to analyse and spot trends
• Articulate and able to communicate clearly both written and verbally with no ambiguities
• Good understanding of finance processes, commercials of a project.
• Ability to use excel to run analysis and reports which can clearly communicate trends and scenarios which are useful for decision making or taking remedial actions
• Ability to effectively critique and challenge all direct cost budgets for optimisation and giving useful feedback for improvement
• Tertiary education, preferably a degree (B.Com, Business Administration, Project Management or equivalent)
• Excellent knowledge of Excel and Word, added advantage if have advanced Excel experience & skills
• At least 3-5 years working experience
• Sound knowledge of the research process and marketing research, previous research experience an advantage

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.

Application Statement

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.

How to Apply

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