Job Description

Job Description

About This Job:

Nielsen BASES works with clients at all stages of new product development, from early-stage ideation to optimizing communication and positioning, package design, predicting and growing in-market sales and crafting holistic marketing support plans through the launch. The Line & Price Specialty team leverages primary market research and choice based models (Discrete Choice, Conjoint) to consult clients on innovation, portfolio assortment, pricing and price pack architecture decisions.

The Associate Manager is the day to day project lead for all aligned client engagements. The Associate Manager holds responsibility for overseeing an Analyst or Senior Analyst on all project aspects including inputs managements, program quality assurance, analytics and reporting. Team members will be trained on all aspects of choice modeling and consulting, but experience in market research, choice based models, product assortment and pricing or Revenue Growth Management is preferred. Top performers are highly skilled at managing multiple projects at once, are proactive coaches and mentors to more junior team members, and have an innate curiosity to explore and ask why.

Responsibilities

Oversees Analyst on All End-to-End Project Tasks

• Guides collection and organization of critical inputs for projects including leveraging Nielsen Sales data to create recommended SKU lists, test variation such as price, test images and survey documents

• Provides quality assurance check for all Analyst work

• Supports Analysts on analytical runs from models, presenting suggestions and recommendations on model adjustments

• Customizing and enhances reports and client deliverables and leads client results presentations

Deliver best in class insights and help our clients achieve better business outcomes

• Provides recommendations on inputs and study design for efficient execution

• Tailors reports and analysis to clearly answer client business questions

• Adds additional insights to analysis with information beyond the data

Team Contributions

• Engages in ad hoc task force and team initiatives

• Provides clear and actionable feedback on team processes and tools

• Actively coaches and mentors Analysts and Senior analyst, setting clear expectations, and providing timely feedback when expectations are missed, met and exceeded to improve overall performance

• Direct management of one to three Analysts or Senior Analysts once fully onboarded and effective in role

A Little About You:

You are a proven project manager who can balance multiple projects with timeline pressure, client needs and overall team management. After official onboarding you are able to look beyond the purely executional tasks, to provide additional insight from your own experience and knowledge. You are energized by a challenge, delivering high profile projects with multiple, high impact business implications. You are able to act as a leader to the Analyst group, setting strong examples of operational excellence and growing those associates in their role and career.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of relevant experience in marketing, research, consulting or revenue management field

• Ability to manage several ongoing client engagements and internal initiatives at the same time

• Excellent oral/written communication, organizational, project management and customer service skills

• High level attention to detail

Additional Information

About NielsenIQ 

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. We provide consumer packaged goods manufacturers/fast-moving consumer goods and retailers with accurate, actionable information and insights and a complete picture of the complex and changing marketplace that companies need to innovate and grow. Our approach marries proprietary NielsenIQ data with other data sources to help clients around the world understand what’s happening now, what’s happening next, and how to best act on this knowledge. We like to be in the middle of the action. That’s why you can find us at work in over 90 countries, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.niq.com.

NielsenIQ is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.