Research Team Lead

Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
Employment type: Full-time
Level: Team Lead

About the Role

We're looking for an analytical leader who can turn data into real business impact. You'll guide a dedicated team, bring modern analytical approaches into daily work, and ensure that every project delivers value to our clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Organize and guide the team's work at strategic, operational, and staffing levels.

• Ensure smooth and high-quality project delivery—from kick-off to final analysis.

• Oversee all project outputs (reports, proposals, presentations), making sure they meet client expectations, internal standards, and agreed deadlines.

• Maintain high data accuracy in the internal CRM system.

• Find opportunities to simplify, improve, or innovate processes and products within the team.

• Support hiring for your team, lead onboarding, and help people grow professionally.

Additionally, you will:

• Lead complex projects and ensure they stay on track.

• Prepare proposals for client briefs, clearly identifying business needs and challenges.

• Build and strengthen relationships with key clients, understanding their evolving priorities and suggesting new solutions.

• Handle client negotiations independently or together with colleagues.

• Facilitate workshops and presentations for clients and internal teams.

• Turn research findings and data into practical insights and recommendations.

Requirements

• Experience leading an analytics or research team (ideally 3–5 years in marketing research or analytics).

• Strong project management skills: planning, prioritization, and quality control.

• Ability to build research frameworks, test business hypotheses, and translate insights into actions.

• Strong rigor working with CRM systems and data processes.

• Clear and confident communication skills for client interactions and workshops.

• Ukrainian: fluent. English: comfortable for communication with clients and colleagues.

What We Offer

• Real influence on product development and internal processes.

• Collaboration with leading companies across diverse industries.

• A supportive team of professionals and opportunities to grow, learn, and contribute to internal initiatives.

• Competitive compensation and benefits

• A flexible, modern work environment built on respect, trust, and partnership.

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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.