Datasets Consultant

At Mintel, we help businesses understand people, markets, and what comes next. As a global market intelligence agency, our understanding of consumers, innovation, and industry gives clients the clarity to act and the confidence to lead. With more than 50 years of expertise, we combine the real-world understanding of our experts with advanced technology to uncover patterns, anticipate change, and help organizations make smarter decisions.
We are looking for a Datasets Consultant to help us build, maintain, and continuously improve social datasets that support insight generation. The role combines analytical judgement, curiosity, market and category knowledge, taxonomy curation, and stakeholder collaboration.
You will independently manage assigned datasets, keep them relevant as categories and online consumer conversations evolve, and lead new dataset builds from initial scoping through to handover.
This is a Hybrid position based in Cape Town.
Key responsibilities:
Social dataset builds
Lead dataset builds from scoping through to handover, balancing agreed requirements, quality standards and delivery timelines
Define and maintain build plans, priorities, dependencies and risks
Translate stakeholder needs into documented dataset requirements and acceptance criteria
Apply appropriate techniques and proprietary tools, documenting key decisions and limitations
Validate completed datasets against agreed requirements and provide documentation for ongoing use and maintenance
Social dataset maintenance
Own the ongoing quality, relevance, and usability of assigned datasets
Review dataset content and apply appropriate techniques to reduce irrelevant content and improve coverage of relevant conversations
Monitor market developments, category changes, and emerging consumer conversations to identify gaps
Update taxonomies and document material changes, decisions and known limitations
Process improvement
Identify recurring challenges and implement practical improvements to datasets building and maintenance