About Kantar - Insights Mobile

Address

Bradenham Hall, 7 Mellis Road, Mellis Park, Rivonia, 2128

Company Size

1000+
Summary

What we do

Our business starts with the collection and analysis of data, but can take us way beyond this into a consulting role at the heart of our clients’ businesses. Big data and the effective analysis thereof is what we do best. Kantar is the data investment management arm of WPP, the world leader in marketing communications.

WPP facts & Figures:

  • 200,000+ employees
  • 3000 offices in 113 countries
  • £12.2bn revenues
  • Holding company of the year from 2012 to 2016 at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity

Why Work For Us

We are the 2nd largest research company in the world and the number 1 in all the BRICS markets
We work with over half of the companies in The Fortune 500 as well as small businesses, national governments, media owners, NGOs and even the occasional Hollywood film star!
(Our clients are the best of the best, which keeps us on our toes…)

Our Culture

Supported by our continuous in-house training, we’ll help you develop the skills you already have as well as acquiring new ones. The core qualities we look for are curiosity, enthusiasm, a creative mind and the ability to inspire others.

We create working environments that embrace multiple ethnicities and cultures. In truth, we’re not much interested in where you’re from, as long as you can communicate effectively and understand the importance of teamwork. You’ll encounter real diversity in many of our offices around the globe. And as much as it benefits our people, it benefits our clients also.

Our Engineering Processes

We believe business is our client and as such our engineers are involved in every aspect of the SDLC process. We are agile and adapt quickly to the needs of business. We deliver regular iterations and our engineers have the opportunity to contribute to the platform, architecture and functionality to make it the worlds best research data collection system out there.

Our Hiring Process

1] We have a skype / telephone call to get a feeling for what you are all about, what you're passions are and where you would like to be. We give a brief overview of what we see the role as and schedule a followup with the team included.

2] The team is introduced at our offices, we present you with a business case to expand on. We want to see how you put things together on a high level, how you think and what your strongest skills are.

3] We invite you back to our offices to go over the business case in person, ask some questions and if all is in order we present a contract, a dummy payslip and take it from there.

Perks
Flexible Hours
World class tech stack
Opportunity to work from anywhere in the world
Foozeball table
Short Term Incentive Plans
Tech Stack

Application and Data

Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon VPC
Python
MySQL
PHP
jQuery
HTML5
Bootstrap
Perl

DevOps

GitHub
Git
npm

Utilities

Amazon Route 53
Amazon SES
Elasticsearch
Google Analytics

Business Tools

JIRA
Microsoft Sharepoint
The foozeball players
The coffee station
The entertainment area