Senior Business Development Executive

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Job Details

Are you a natural connector with a passion for opening doors? Join our Belgium team as a Senior Business Development Executive and play a key role in driving new business across our full portfolio of solutions.

This is a hunter role – you’ll focus on prospecting, outreach, and acquisition, not account management. You’ll engage senior decision-makers at major brands, understand their challenges, and connect them with Kantar’s insights-driven solutions. If you thrive on creating opportunities and building relationships, this is your chance to make an impact in a global organisation.

Job Goals

• Identify, qualify, and convert prospects into clients across Belgium.
• Build and manage a strong pipeline using CRM tools and prospecting platforms.
• Secure 2–3 prospect meetings per week and collaborate with internal experts to deliver tailored proposals.
• Target international HQs and leading Belgian brands, representing Kantar at events and client meetings.
• Promote Kantar’s full portfolio of solutions, from quantitative and qualitative research to creative and brand insights.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• Native Flemish/Dutch speaker with fluent French and English.
• Proven success in business development, ideally in marketing, SaaS, media, or creative industries.
• Strong prospecting and cold-calling skills, with experience using CRM systems.
• Bold, proactive, and resilient mindset – thrives on opening doors and creating opportunities.
• Willingness to travel for client meetings and industry events.

What’s In It For You

• Competitive base salary.
• Local incentive plan based on new sales with a monthly payout.
• Hybrid working model (minimum 1 day/week in office).
• Life Leave, Volunteering Days, Enhanced Parental Leave, and pension benefits.
• Opportunity to work with a collaborative BD team and a global brand.

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Location

Brussels, Boulevard Saint-LazareBelgium

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.