Associate, Commercial Partner

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in.

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Job Details

Title: Associate, Commercial Partner

Location: Anywhere in the United States (EST or CST preferred)

Kantar, the world’s leading marketing data and analytics company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote, and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies. Kantar’s 25,000 people based in more than 100 countries help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow. Nobody knows people better than Kantar. We provide insight and inspiration to help our clients, our people and society to create and flourish in an extraordinary world.

Role Description

Client Operations is an internal role responsible for the life of a job, including evaluating, reviewing, and troubleshooting their respective Commercial teams’ pipeline and orders, along with assisting with aged Accounts Receivable and Accrued Revenue, job activation, job maintenance, and closure. The Client Ops rep serves as a liaison between the Kantar Financial Services team and Solutions Delivery. This role would suit a motivated professional who enjoys working collaboratively in a team setting, excels at multitasking and prioritizing, and is comfortable with mathematic fundamentals while embracing independent responsibility over their work.

Responsibilities

• Oversees and tackles issues with pipeline, pending orders, aged Accounts Receivable, and Accrued Revenue with Client Lead/Project Lead teams and Kantar Financial Services team
• Troubleshoot pipeline by utilizing the Salesforce platform and Maconomy
• Assists Executive Leadership and Financial Business Partner on financial reporting
• Job maintenance including opening, maintaining, and closing a job.
• Supports Solutions Delivery teams by pulling budget and profitability reports
• Partners with Solutions Delivery teams to ensure invoices are correct and get to clients on time
• Supports Kantar Financial Services on challenging collection issues
• Works to improve the workflow for Purchase Orders, Billing and Collections
• Weekly/monthly reporting on pipeline, orders, pending orders, aged AR, and accrued revenue
• Supports client assignment efforts and transitions
• Supports the NA Sales Operation with new initiatives
  
  

Capabilities

• Working knowledge of Maconomy and Salesforce.com systems.
• High proficiency using web-based tools and MS Office (including Excel)
• Resourceful problem-solving, organized and analytical, with a detailed oriented mindset
• Able to manage and prioritize multiple tasks under tight deadlines concurrently
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Reacts to change productively and displays a solution-driven approach
• Strong teamwork ethic with an ability to complete tasks independently and proactively
  
  

The Kantar Benefits

We provide a comprehensive, highly competitive benefits package, including

• Medical plans with comprehensive, affordable coverage for a range of health services
• Health Savings Account/FSA
• Dental, Vision and benefits to cover unique healthcare needs
• Wellness Program
• 401k with match
• Tuition Reimbursement, Commuter benefits
• Unlimited PTO
  
  

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.

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.

The salary range for this role in Pennsylvania is $62,300 - $103,800 USD. Your final base salary will be determined based on several factors which may include but are not limited to location, work experience, skills, knowledge, education and/or certifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Privacy and Legal Statement 

Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.

Location

Pennsylvania, Work from HomeUnited States of America

Kantar 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.

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 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.

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.