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We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.
About the job
As Principal Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in Kantar’s transformation journey, overseeing the delivery of multi-million-dollar change portfolios across Cyber Security and Risk Management. By driving organisational agility and ensuring high-quality outcomes, you will enable impactful change aligned with strategic objectives. Your leadership will directly influence the success of complex programmes and projects, fostering innovation and resilience across the organisation!
Collaborating closely with the Group Technology CTO, divisional leads, and Domain Delivery teams, you will ensure seamless integration within a matrixed portfolio. Your efforts will support the adoption of new ways of working, enhance delivery capabilities, and sustain a high-performing delivery organisation. This role is vital to achieving Kantar’s goals as a world leader in data, insights, and consulting!

Job Goals

• Drive the successful execution of multi-million-dollar change portfolios across Cyber Security and Risk Management, ensuring alignment with Kantar’s strategic objectives.
• Establish and implement effective frameworks for enhancing organisational agility, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and introducing new ways of working.
• Collaborate with the Group Technology CTO, divisional leads, and Domain Delivery teams to streamline integration within a matrixed portfolio and address dependencies effectively.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate risks while overseeing divisional budgets, ensuring resource allocation aligns with shifting portfolio priorities.
• Create and track success metrics for delivery teams, providing coaching and support to drive performance improvement and achieve measurable outcomes.
• Promote thought leadership within the organisation by connecting internal and external communities, showcasing Kantar as a modern, agile employer in the market.
• Facilitate the adoption of Agile and Waterfall methodologies, ensuring their effective application across complex stakeholder groups and delivery teams.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• Proven expertise in both Waterfall and Agile frameworks: Certifications such as SAFe (e.g., SPC), Lean Six Sigma, Prince 2, PMP, or ADKAR Change Management are essential to driving organisational agility and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Strategic portfolio management: Demonstrated ability to deliver complex infrastructure solutions within a global enterprise environment, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives and priorities.
• Risk and resource management: Knowledge of frameworks like Management of Portfolio (MoP) and a track record of identifying, managing, and mitigating risks effectively while adapting resources to dynamic portfolio demands.
• Leadership and coaching skills: Strong capabilities in mentoring teams, fostering collaboration, and promoting servant leadership practices, especially in environments facing change and uncertainty.
• Expertise in scaling Agile methodologies: Familiarity with additional frameworks like LeSS, Scrum@Scale, or Nexus is valuable for managing complex stakeholder groups and delivery teams effectively.

Please be aware, the majority of our roles are hybrid, working three days a week in our office.
We’re not able to offer visa sponsorship or help with relocation support for this role. Please make sure you’ve got the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying.
What part of Kantar might I be joining?
You’ll be joining our technology team, right in the middle of our tech revolution. We’re undergoing the largest technology transformation Kantar has ever seen, investing in new AI and cloud technologies. By modernizing all our tech systems, we can respond our clients’ needs faster and more efficiently – and keep Kantar as a market leader for insights.
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 if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.
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 works for them. 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.
Privacy and Legal Statement
At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
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United Kingdom
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

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