Project Manager

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Project Manager - Maternity Cover

• Start date: January 2026

• Duration: 18 months

• Location: Goteborg or Stockholm

Ready to make an impact? Join Kantar in either Goteborg or Stockholm as a Project Manager and help deliver insights that shape the world’s leading brands.

Why this job is important:

As a Project Manager, you’ll play a key role in delivering client projects end-to-end. Your work ensures projects run smoothly, meet client expectations, and comply with quality and security standards.

This role is critical to maintaining strong client relationships and driving operational excellence during a key period.

What you’ll be doing:

• Manage project planning, execution, and financials from start to finish.

• Coordinate delivery teams for seamless execution.

• Act as the main point of contact for clients and internal stakeholders.

• Monitor risks, timelines, and budgets, ensuring compliance with data privacy and IT security standards.

• Drive continuous improvement and implement best practices across all phases.

The ideal skills & experience:

• Proven experience in end-to-end project management within Market Research.

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.

• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with high emotional intelligence.

• Ability to work in a cross-cultural, matrix environment and build strong relationships.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; Project Management certification is a plus.

• Fluency in both Swedish and English is required.

What’s in it for you:

• Life Leave for personal time when you need it most.

• Volunteering Days to give back to your community.

• Enhanced Pension Scheme for your future.

• Enhanced Parental Leave to support family life.

• Hybrid working model – three days a week in the office.

• Temporary role for the duration of 18 months, as of January 2026.

We are not able to offer visa sponsorship or relocation support for this role. Before applying, please make sure you’ve got the right to work in Sweden. 

Why join Kantar?

At Kantar, we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By combining human expertise with the latest AI technology, we help brands discover powerful insights. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds. Even if you feel you’re not an exact match, we’d love to hear from you.

Ready to take the next step? Apply today and be part of a team that’s shaping the future of insights!​

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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.