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Lightspeed Graduate Development Program

PCCW Tower, Hong Kong

Short introduction 

Lightspeed is a leading digital data collection specialist on a mission to help clients discover truth through data. Our 700 employees in 14 countries are passionate about boldly challenging the status quo to find faster, more creative ways of connecting brands and consumers to build richer profiles of millions of people across the globe.

Role responsibilities

We’re looking for highly motivated graduates to join our award winning team, bringing with you a commitment to learn, desire to develop key skills and a curiosity that will help drive the future of our business.

Our Graduate Program is designed to give you the best possible learning experience to help you develop into one of our future leaders.

Through a program, that is both challenging and diverse, you’ll build core skills in areas such as data, client management, leadership, business acumen, and project management.

You’ll have a commitment from us to invest in your future, starting with a two-year program packed with placements, projects, opportunities and experiences which will provide you with a strong foundation for accelerated career progression.

We’re on an ambitious journey and at the forefront of change in our industry - your innovative mind-set and ambition will ensure you make an impact.

Person specification

You’ll have a curiosity about the world of consumer data and insights. With strong communication skills, both verbally and written, you’ll be confident in speaking to our teams, clients and partners.

You’ll be tech-savvy, self-motivated and eager to learn – as the saying goes, you will get out of this opportunity what you put in!

A thought leader with an inquisitive mind and an aptitude for working with data, we need you to challenge the status quo and bring a new perspective, utilizing your experiences to create impact.

The desire to share learning – we believe that development happens at all times, not just in the classroom, so you will be expected to share your learning with colleagues and partake in group learning sessions and maybe even able to teach us a thing or two.

• Minimum requirements (essentials)
  • Graduating soon or obtained a Bachelors degree; 3.0 GPA or Higher
  • A commitment to our values of being bold, fast and creative
  • Eligible to live and work in the country of application. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process.

Rewards
You’ll have a commitment from us to invest in your future, starting with a two-year Graduate Development Program packed with placements, projects, opportunities and experiences which will provide you with a strong foundation for accelerated career progression. Here’s a snapshot of some of things you can expect:

• A two-year personal development plan, with set objectives and assessments to ensure a clear path for growth
• An assigned senior mentor to offer you guidance and support throughout your time on the program, and beyond!
• Flexibility to elect your placements in year two, giving you the opportunity to begin your career path and strengthen specialist skills
• The opportunity to undertake a placement at one of our global offices – giving you the experience of both living and working abroad
• Exposure and opportunities within the world’s largest advertising business – Lightspeed is part of the Kantar family, with 30,000 employees globally and offices in more cities around the world than we can name. Add to that our place within the WPP group and a culture which encourages both cross brand and global mobility, and the world is your oyster
• The experience of working in a business with a bold, creative and fast culture, where we value fun and hard work in equal measure

Our selection process aims to match the best candidate to our graduate program. We do this by assessing your abilities using a variety of tools throughout our recruitment process.

You can expect to complete an online test, video interview and have the time to prepare a presentation which you will be expected to deliver at assessment day.

The assessment day has two main purposes:

• Give you the opportunity to better understand our business, the role of a graduate and meet some of our people
• For you to showcase who you are and what you can bring to our team.

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 on the basis of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status or any other legally protected characteristics.

Location

Hong Kong, PCCW Tower

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.

Join our team and you’ll be part of the 30,000 colleagues and 9 world leading research, data and insight brands that make up Kantar. At the heart of WPP, our unique consumer insight inspires clients around the globe to create and flourish in an extraordinary world.

We are from Kantar, Profiles Division, a digital data collection specialist on a mission to help clients discover truth through data. Our 700 employees in 14 countries are passionate about boldly challenging the status quo to find faster, more creative ways of connecting brands and consumers to build richer profiles of millions of people across the globe. From modernizing surveys via our programmatic Gravity Network and LifePoints mobile app, to amplifying the voice of the millennial through VICE Voices, or leveraging our first party panel relationships and uniquely patented Honesty Detector Service to find the quality in the quantity of data out there, we are delivering the ‘buy and why’ insights that power today’s marketing decisions. Headquartered in Warren, NJ, part of Kantar, one of the world’s leading data, insight and consultancy companies. Kantar is the Data Investment Management division of WPP plc. http://www.kantar.com/profiles