Senior Research Executive

NielsenIQ is the industry leader in global measurement and data analytics, and the most trusted source for retail and consumer intelligence. We deliver the complete truth to retailers, manufacturers, and our partners through our comprehensive data sets and powerful insights. The ideal candidate will be required to deliver daily prompt analysis of data to client stakeholders, as required to meet their needs.

Main Responsibilities

• Drive client satisfaction by providing insights and actionable recommendations during reporting, presentations, and business reviews.
• Provide value-added analyses and responses to special requests.
• Build and maintain ongoing relationships with identified key persons within client organizations.
• Liaise daily with senior management to identify their needs and recommend/deliver new analyses beyond their expectations and understanding.

Knowledge and Skills Requirement

• Strong understanding of measurement data to enable meaningful conversations with all client stakeholders and ensure accurate representation of the data in reporting and insights.
• Knowledge of statistics and multivariate analysis.
• Ability to understand all technical and delivery aspects of the modeling process to carry out internal Nielsen and client-based conversations.
• Experienced with analysis tools for data extraction at a complex level.
• Strong client focus — able to influence and persuade.
• Strong customer service and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to analyse and interpret data in a challenging and insightful manner.
• Excellent presentation development skills to creatively bring data to life with story-telling and attractive reporting.
• Confident presenting skills to deliver insights, stories, and actions in face-to-face or group presentations.
• Efficient time management, ability to multi-task, and detail-oriented.
• Maturity and creative problem-solving skills in handling crises.
• Recommend improvements in work processes within the area of responsibility.
• Ability to operate in a multi-cultural environment.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years’ experience and proven success with Market research (quantitative essential, qualitative an advantage).
• Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university.
• Strong analysis skills and insight generation.
• Good grounding in custom research principles, methodologies, and statistical techniques.
• Basic business understanding (e.g. comfortable with terminology: revenue, profit, loss, margin).
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills or Google Slides and Google Sheets.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by visiting the NielsenIQ application portal on SmartRecruiters via the link provided below.