Client Director - Retail Analytics

As a Client Director you will lead a team that identifies and crafts businessissue solutions by working collaboratively with Commercial Retail teams across the assigned portfolio of clients. Deliver value to clients through NIQs world class merchandising analytics product solutions. Typical client engagements require you and your team members to lead meetings to help scope creative solutions to business issues manage the completion of projects and deliver analyticsinsights through storytelling. You and your team will bridge the language gap between clients sales client service and technical aspects of our operation.  

Responsibilities: 

• Leading a highperforming team who is responsible for creating integrated analyses in support of clients strategic initiatives. 
• Present analyses to seniorlevelclient contacts with actionable insights and recommendations for the clients business. 
• Proactively provide subject matter expertise on our products and the merchandising analytics domain to clients in support of strategic client business issues including Pricing Promotion Assortment and other merchandising analytics domains. 
• Maintain and build productive business relationships with key client contacts. 
• Work collaboratively with other NIQ Retail Analytics teams including the Sales Implementation & Operations teams to further develop existing tools and identify revenue opportunities outside of contracted services. 
• Manage renewal processes upsell & crossselling for your portfolio of clients in a farming capacity; inclusive but not limited to P&L management agreement drafting negotiations & selling.  

Qualifications :

• 8 years experience in the ConsumerPackaged Goods (CPG) CPG Retail and/or market research industry required. 
• 2 years experience in directly managing mentoring and leading associates. 
• Strong analytic aptitude with the ability to apply analytic products to CPG/CPG Retail industry business issues. 
• Successfully manage endto projects from approach/design to delivery of insights. 
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to deliver impactful client presentations. 
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders and senior leadership (VP level and above) both internally and externally. 
• Skilled at influencing and collaborating with crossfunctional teams. 
• Strong sense of urgency and accountability to drive client outcomes while managing multiple priorities. 
• BA/BS required Masters preferred. 
• Expert proficiency in base price optimization promotional planning promotional effectiveness markdown optimization assortment & space optimization supplychain demand forecasting geospatial analytics A/B testing planogram analytics personalization and customer loyalty analytics preferred. 
• Experience using SQL Databricks Python a plus  
• Intermediate proficiency in financial & contract management preferred.

Additional Information :

This role has a marketcompetitive salary with an anticipated base compensation of the following range: $110000 $140000. Actual salaries will vary depending on a candidates experience qualifications skills and location. This role might also be eligible for a salesbased incentive or performancebased bonus. Other benefits include flexible working environment comprehensive health insurance industryleading parental leave life insurance education support and more.

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
• EmployeeAssistanceProgram (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the worlds 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 insightsdelivered with advanced analytics through stateoftheart platformsNIQ delivers the Full View. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100 markets covering more than 90% of the worlds population.

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