Junior Business Developer

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Junior Business Developer – Kantar Insights

Location: Oslo

Position: Permanent

Are you passionate about driving growth and shaping the brands of tomorrow through data, insights, and innovation? Kantar, the world's leading data, insights, and consulting company, is looking for a proactive and ambitious Junior Business Developer to join our Insights team in Oslo.

About the Role

As a Junior Business Developer in our Insights division, you will play a pivotal role in the commercial success of Kantar in Norway. You will work closely with Client Development and Client Delivery teams to identify and secure new business opportunities, and help deliver innovative solutions in brand programmes, advertising testing, sales modelling, innovation, and customer experience (CX). Your efforts will directly impact our ability to help clients navigate complex challenges and seize growth opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and qualify new business opportunities and build a strong pipeline through proactive outreach (phone, email, digital channels).
• Lead the sales process end-to-end: outreach, discovery, solution framing, proposal development, and closing, in close collaboration with Client Partners and subject matter experts.
• Follow up on marketing activities (e.g. whitepaper downloads, newsletters) and convert interest into client meetings.
• Prepare and deliver engaging product demonstrations and presentations, highlighting the unique value of our solutions.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with both new and existing clients.
• Collaborate across the organization to develop tailored proposals and ensure a seamless client experience.
• Report regularly on pipeline progress and outcomes to management.

What We're Looking For

• 2–5 years' experience in business development or sales, preferably within technology, market research, or marketing solutions.
• Proven ability to drive new business from first contact to close, with a focus on outbound prospecting.
• Experience using CRM systems and understanding how marketing activities support sales conversion.
• Strategic, structured, and able to communicate and present effectively in both Norwegian and English.
• Strong collaboration skills, positive mindset, and resilience to handle both successes and setbacks.
• Relevant university degree (Bachelor's or Master's).

Ways of working

• Oslo‑based with hybrid flexibility; some travel in Norway and the Nordics for client meetings and events.
• Adheres to Kantar's standards for quality, information security and data protection; completes required compliance training.

Diversity, equity & inclusion

Kantar is committed to an inclusive, fair and supportive working environment where everyone can thrive, and we welcome applications from all sections of society. We provide equal opportunities and do not discriminate based on legally protected characteristics.

Location

Oslo, LakkegataNorway

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.