Coding Specialist, Kantar Worldpanel

Job description

Coding Specialist/Data Entry

Location: Westgate, West London

At Kantar Worldpanel our business is consumers and shoppers. We are the world’s leading provider of impactful insights and research solutions from consumer panels. We know more than anyone about shoppers’ purchase and usage behaviour and with a panel of 30,000 UK households we provide insight and advanced analytics like no one else.

Major retailers, manufacturers and city clients know how valuable our knowledge can be - because we’ve already helped hundreds of them to better understand their shoppers’ needs and grow their business.

Job Purpose

The primary objective of every role in Kantar Worldpanel Production is to ensure we are able to deliver data accurately and on time first time every time to our clients.

Our Clients demand the highest standards of data quality and as a Coding Specialist within the Coding Inputs team you will be responsible for ensuring the highest level of accuracy and quality of purchase data recorded from our panelists.

In this role you will be responsible for identifying the promotions that are present across key UK retailers and ensure that they are accurately represented in our dataset as well as being involved in ensuring that data from our GB and Irish Panels are maintained to a high level of accuracy.

The role also requires for you to place products purchased by our panel into our coding framework so that they can be used to create detailed reporting analysis for our clients.

This role is key to ensuring the data delivered to our clients is accurate and on time first time.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for updating in store promotion information and ensuring that the data reflects the promotions accurately.
• Responsible for identifying and placing products accurately into our coding framework
• Responsible for the up keep of internal files to ensure data accuracy
• Liaising with other departments to apply historical data changes and other client related requests to the dataset.

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualities:

• Will have previously worked in an office environment
• Will possess an inquisitive nature
• Experience of handling data / numbers in a previous role will be an advantage.
• Basic Word and Excel skills
• Demonstrate a good level of numeracy
• Knowledge and interest in consumer markets alongside an awareness of prices and the way that products are sold
• Excellent attention to detail
• The ability to work under pressure to reach tight deadlines
• The ability to work autonomously or within a team to ensure completion of a task.
• Strong communication skills
• Have drive and enthusiasm
• Confidence to share knowledge
• Be seeking personal development

We only recruit exceptional talent, individuals who are inquisitive, creative, passionate and driven for commercial success. We reward that talent by continuously investing in our people, including excellent training programmes that nurture and support, a great working environment and comprehensive flexible benefits package. And you don’t need to take our word for it - 2015 has, again, seen Kantar Worldpanel listed as one of The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For.

More on our core benefits: 25 days holiday (with the option to buy and sell up to 5 days/year), Life cover, contributory pension, income protection and Private Medical (for qualifying roles). A total of 13 flexible benefits to choose from as well as a 4pm finish on a Friday, breakfast club and much, much more!