Administrative Assistant / Data Entry

Administrative Assistant / Data Entry

Location: London , South East Salary: Competitive Date posted: 19/05/2012 14:00 Job type:Permanent Company: Kantar WorldPanel Contact: Recruitment Team Ref: Totaljobs/DataEntry Job ID: 53450146

Administrative Assistant / Data Entry

Kantar Worldpanel is the market leading operator of continuous consumer panels around the world, collecting quantitative information about the purchasing and use of Grocery, Personal Care, Audio-Visual, Telecoms, Fashion and Beauty products.

With the increasing demands of the business and our clients, it is essential that we deliver data in the right format to agreed schedules. Each client receives data relevant to their market and designed in a way to help them gain insight into what is driving their products sales as well as their competitors sales. We deliver our data in a number of ways including internal databases, report templates, excel and PowerPoint and it is the accuracy of this data that helps make us one of the most successful businesses in our industry.

The Role

We are currently recruiting to a number of positions in 2 areas of our Operations department and are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our teams.

Our Coding Administrators are responsible for coding product lists and ensuring data quality and are required to produce detailed databases for our clients on a 4 weekly cycle.

Our team of Reporting Analysts use the data that we collect from our respondents to create reports for our clients on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis. These reports are created from FMCG product lists and it is the teams responsibility to ensure that these lists are maintained accurately.

Main Duties and Responsibilities include

To set up, send, receive and load data using internal systems

Deliver accurately, monthly, quarterly and annual reports in the required format to clients and Client Service Teams by following step by step instructions

To follow documented procedures related to report change and seek support from senior team members where necessary

Communicate with other production and commercial teams, and occasionally the client, in order to ensure that all aspects of the coding is completed to specification this will involve the need to attend meetings with relevant parties to discuss issues

To follow standard and documented quality control procedures across all reporting

Communicating with other internal coding teams about changes to new / existing products

Take responsibility for the coding & checking of data at various stages of the project

Working to tight deadlines to complete projects and reports on a 4 weekly cycle

Skills Required

High level of accuracy and attention to detail

Experience of creating reports from raw data and ability to follow instructions

Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Experience of working in a customer facing role and / or in an office based environment

Previous PC experience with a intermediate level of understanding of MS Office products, especially in the use of MS Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Fast and accurate worker, with an ability to prioritise work to meet deadlines

Must be able to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative

A keen interest and good product knowledge within the Foods and Toiletries industry would be an advantage

Flexible attitude towards work, must be prepared to work the occasional evenings /weekends

Kantar Worldpanel is an equal opportunities employer