Kantar

Insight, data analytics & consulting business
Last updated:
January 6, 2026
Company details
HQ
London, UK
HEADCOUNT
10000+
ORG TYPE
Corporate
SECTOR
Professional Services
About the company
Kantar is a data, insights, and consulting company focused on understanding how people think, feel, shop, share, and vote. Kantar works with brands, retailers, media owners, and public-sector organisations on areas like brand strategy, customer experience, media effectiveness, and innovation. Kantar’s work blends research methods with analytics and technology, delivered through global client teams. Kantar is privately held and headquartered in London.
Locations and presence
Kantar operates across a large global footprint, with offices across more than 90 markets and major hubs including London and other regional centers. Work setup varies by role and country, but Kantar job materials commonly reference spending part of the week in the office alongside flexible working arrangements where the role allows.
Palpable Score
73.0
/ 100
Kantar gives early-career candidates lots of ways in, including regular graduate intakes, apprenticeships, internships, and placement years across many countries. The hiring journey is explained better than average for entry-level applicants, but candidates still report variation in how smooth communication and timelines feel across teams. Learning support is a real strength in the graduate and apprentice pathways, while public outcomes data like conversion rates and early retention is limited.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

17.8
/ 20
  • The company publishes a global Early Careers hub covering graduate programmes, internships, placement years, and apprenticeships, rather than treating entry-level hiring as a one-off activity.
  • Kantar states that graduate hiring typically has two annual intakes, and some programmes include rotations across three roles in 12 months before placement into a team.
  • The company positions apprenticeships as “day one” real roles across multiple apprenticeship levels, widening entry beyond university-only routes.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

13.2
/ 20
  • The company explains common early-career selection tools in advance, including recorded video interviews (via Cammio) and behavioural assessments (Arctic Shores), plus assessment-day formats like group tasks and presentations.
  • Kantar sets a reasonable adjustments expectation for neurodivergent candidates and points applicants to the recruiter for support through the recruitment process.
  • The company has enough public interview reports describing multi-stage loops and variable pacing that early-career candidates should still expect inconsistency by team and location.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.0
/ 20
  • The company states that all graduate programmes include training and an in-house development programme covering both role-specific learning and broader skills like client management and personal effectiveness.
  • Kantar says graduate programmes include regular progress meetings and checkpoints so new starters are guided rather than left to figure things out alone.
  • The company describes apprentices as learning on the job alongside studies, with structured qualifications attached to the work.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

13.5
/ 20
  • The company says all entry-level programmes come with salary and benefits, even though the amounts vary by country and programme.
  • Kantar job descriptions in some markets include explicit salary ranges and explain factors that influence base pay, which helps reduce pay surprises for early-career applicants in those locations.
  • The company’s pay transparency is uneven globally, and Kantar’s ongoing business portfolio changes can add uncertainty depending on which business unit and country a graduate joins.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

12.5
/ 20
  • The company describes rotational graduate formats that end with placement into a project or team, which is a concrete “what happens next” outcome for some pathways.
  • Kantar highlights graduate and early-career employee stories on the careers site, but these are individual narratives rather than cohort-level results.
  • The company does not publish early-career outcomes like internship-to-offer conversion rates, post-program placement rates by track, or early-tenure retention, which limits confidence about consistency across locations.