As a Director of Strategic Thought Leadership – Food Insights, you are responsible for all client activity and the overall success of NielsenIQ at the customer. This includes driving actionable, timely, and high-quality strategic insights to help accelerate client growth trajectories.
This is a client-facing position that requires being onsite weekly in Hanover, NJ.
Job Description
Routinely and efficiently lead the creation of compelling, high-quality perspectives and deliverables to address the client’s growth questions
Outputs to include a strategy framework to simplify complex ideas and organize our analyses
Integrate analyses from across NIQ's solutions
Demonstrate market expertise, establishing a POV, and offering actionable recommendations
Writing for an executive audience (i.e., using an economy of words) and creating opportunities to engage client organizations
Leading the creation of routine insights outputs and leverage outputs to share with client leaders and educate our internal audiences
Prepare thought leadership materials and present/publish in appropriate forums with support from analytics associates capable of conducting the direct data analysis
Create tools and frameworks to help other Customer Success Insights associates create outputs
Excellent client service orientation: great social poise and persuasive communication skills to work effectively with different personalities, plus the drive to deliver high-quality results to wow clients and earn their respect & recognition
Drive business opportunities and actionable recommendations that enable our client to win
Qualifications
5+ years of experience in the Food industry from food manufacturing, CPG, and/or consulting
Relevant experience with research techniques & solutions in the related industries of Consumer-Packaged Goods, Consulting, Information, Sales, Analytics or similar
Effective in senior-level communications, influencing & negotiation
Excellent awareness of market conditions and client business environment
Bachelor’s Degree
Ability to be onsite 2-3 days a week
Additional Information
US Benefits
Comprehensive healthcare plan (medical, Rx, dental and vision).
Flexible spending accounts and Health Savings Account (including company contributions).
Life and AD&D insurance.
401(k) retirement plan including company matching contributions.
Disability insurance.
Tuition Reimbursement.
Discretionary paid time off program and 11 paid holidays.
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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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Management and Manufacturing
Industries
Information Services
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