Job Description
Job Description
As an Associate Director in the Innovation Practice Group, your responsibilities and key expectations will include:
Client Management
- Provide ideas and thoughtful insights into new ideas and initiatives for clients, showing competency, mastery and consultative skill.
- Lead and promote strategic conversations and meetings with clients, which result in business opportunities
- Further foster strategic clients’ relationship with the aim to provide impactful solutions to clients’ business issues.
- Drive overall client satisfaction to achieve high Net Promoter Score (NPS).
Insights Delivery
- Expertise on the end-to-end processes in market research
- Translate data to insights, create compelling stories and powerful synthesis of findings to drive high impact business decisions through insightful and actionable recommendations.
- Actively drive issue-based analyses, build effective analytical presentations and consultative storytelling to clients and present to the clients including C-suite management in a straight-forward way.
Team Management
- Inspiring the team and building good team culture with active engagement in driving team spirit.
- Actively seek opportunities to create team diversity in background, opinion, and mindset.
- Establish an open culture in which team members are challenged but treated with respect and rewarded as appropriate.
- Good team resource management leading to on-time delivery & meeting quality expectations.
- Assess, manage and develop talents including setting performance objectives and provide on-going feedback.
Business Focus
- Be accountable for the team's financial KPIs (both revenue and margin); continuously monitor actual versus budgeted performance and make interventions if needed.
- Be current with the latest developments in market research and constantly suggest refinements to current processes and approaches.
- Be an active business developer in generating opportunities with both new and existing clients
- Fluency in financial processes and in compliance with Nielsen IQ financial strategy and KPIs.
Qualifications
- Post Graduate degree in Business, Marketing, Social Sciences or related fields.
- Minimum 8 years of Primary Quantitative research experience
- Working knowledge of the FMCG vertical preferred
- Good understanding of Product/Concept Testing studies along with Custom research is a must.
- Experience in managing people/team (minimum 3 years).
- Experience in managing a high volume of complex quantitative research studies under tight budgets and schedules.
- Proven track record to positively impact client outcomes and ability to influence clients.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including presenting to C-Suite clients.
- Intellectually curious, critical thinkers and impact driven.
- Can-do attitude, with a reputation for providing clarity and creating positive energy.
- Highly collaborative, open to novel ideas and can build strong relationships with external clients and internal business partners.
Additional Information
Our Benefits
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
About NIQ
NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.
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