Account Manager

About the Job

The account manager will be responsible to acquire new clients to meet the target sales budget while maintaining the existing accounts and Secure the retailers cooperation continuity improving the conditions of existing cooperation agreements with current retailer partners

Sourcing for strategic new retailers, enhancing features & inputs from existing ones

Drive sales, cooperation renewals and overall growth of existing retailers securing sustainable and long-term pipeline, revenue opportunities ensuring an accurate forecasting; maintain C-suite customer relationships

• Develop a strategic understanding of our retailer’s industry/business/markets/clusters
• Partner with Customer Success and other relevant functions to define strategic Account Plans and JBPs and remove roadblocks
• Drive strategic action plan to tackle Voice of the Customer feedback
• Lead and inspire sales teams, enhancing their skills and improving their experience
• Seek strategic alliances leveraging partnerships with third parties (for Pricing, Assortment, Loyalty, OSA, Business Intelligence and Collaborative programs) to create strong dependency of retailers on our capabilities and information.
• Ensure proactive alignment of NIQ value proposition to customers' needs and trends

Throughout your tenure, you will demonstrate the following competencies:

• Relationship Building: Develop effective long-term professional interactions with customers based on trust working toward the best interest of those involved providing positive results.
• Active listening: Enhance mutual understanding in communicating with customers by expressing genuine interest in, and providing full attention to, the content and meaning of customers’ messages

• Information seeking: Curiosity and desire to know more about things, people, or issues. This involves going beyond routine questions and includes digging or pressing for exact information; resolving discrepancies by asking in-depth questions; or conducting less-focused environmental scanning for opportunities or miscellaneous information that may be used in the future
• Influence and persuasion: Persuading, convincing, influencing, or impressing others in order to get them to support a specific agenda, make a specific type of impression, or take a specific course of action.
• Negotiation: Identify key bargaining points for all parties and work effectively toward win-win solutions
• Composure and resiliency: Effectively deal  with pressure, maintain focus and intensity, and remain optimistic and persistent, even under adversity. Have the ability and propensity to recover quickly from setbacks, rejections, and conflicts and to maintain self-control in the face of hostility or provocation.
• Organizational Savvy: Gather and accurately assess information related to the organization’s formal and informal communication channels and power relationships
• Business Acumen: Makes sound business decisions based on a strong understanding of the company’s business model, strategic goals, and relevant policies, as well as best practices and current technologies in their own discipline or functional area.
   

• Min. 5+, typically 10+ years of related experience
• Solid sales skills and developed sales expertise in target scope
• Solid understanding of data analytics industry, business model, products, services and solutions.
• Solid understanding of market trends and its interdependencies impacting customers
• Each market to expand and adapt according to the market, account, technical needs, language, knowledge of specific systems, etc.

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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Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. 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. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/news-center/diversity-inclusion