Business Development Consultant

We 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.

• Business Development Consultant
• Full time / Hybrid
• Westgate, London

Join an industry-leading team at the heart of the UK’s media ecosystem. Kantar Media TGI partners with some of the world’s most influential media owners, agencies and advertisers—including Global, Sky, Disney, Channel 4, WPP, Omnicom and Publicis. With a renowned portfolio of data and insight solutions, we help shape smarter decisions, stronger creative, and real commercial impact across the media landscape.

Kantar Media are looking for an exceptional Business Development Executive who shares our passion for commercial insight, and the impact it has on our clients creative and commercial success.

• Shadowing client meetings with senior members of the team, this could be with the world’s largest media agency, Group
  
  M or supporting in a pitch to Netflix or Tik Tok.
• Training on how to turn data into Insight Stories, harnessing the power of data to deliver meaningful growth to our clients.
• Using your skills to support new business sales activities to the TGI Business Development Team, Inc. sales and marketing presentation preparation, TGI insight runs, lead research and proposal writing and much more.
• Lead generation, finding new commercial relationship opportunities through desk research and outbound activities.
• After training, you’ll be owning outbound prospecting, calling, emailing, using Linked In and other sales software to make contact and network with decision makers.
• Qualifying and moving prospective leads into and through the sales funnel.
• Working closely with marketing, managing Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) tracking.
• Gather feedback from customers or prospects and share with internal teams.

At the end of your 3 months on-boarding, success looks like;

• A fully rounded and confident knowledge of our client bases, and the benefits each TGI solution offers their business.
• A qualified pipeline of active new business opportunities, which you will lead through the sales process.
• A career pathway at Kantar Media for continuous professional and personal development and success.

• Previous professional environment experience preferable, ideally in a media, research, consulting, or similar business.
• An active interest in media, advertising, and the evolving digital data landscape.
• You are highly organised and manage your time effectively.
• You consider yourself a ‘people person’ and get a buzz from meeting new people, either virtually or in person.
• You know your way around Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
• A consultative approach to clients, you are as good at listening as you are at presenting.
• A self-starter who proactively seeks new opportunities to learn and develop.
• You love being part of a team and contributing to making great things happen!

• Is passionate about media, advertising, and commercial insight.
• Gets a real sense of satisfaction from knocking down challenges and finding solutions.
• A confident and articulate communicator.
• Has a good attention to detail and holds themselves to high standards.
• Is a self-starter, but also embraces collaboration.
• Entrepreneurial and solutions focused.
• Inquisitive and endlessly curious.
• Resilient and brave.
• Not afraid to challenge the status quo.
• Keen to prove their value and eager to win new logos and generate net-new revenue.

If reading this excites you, then you sound like a TGIer, come join us.

United Kingdom

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 Fifty5

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