Client Director - Retail Analytics

As a Client Director you will lead a team that identifies and crafts business-issue 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 analytics-insights 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 high-performing team who is responsible for delivering our solutions and creating integrated analyses in support of clients strategic initiatives. 
• Present analyses to senior-levelclient 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. 
• Lead a bespoke Data Science team to deliver innovative analyses and solutions to unique client problems. 
• 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 & cross-selling 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 Consumer-Packaged 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 end-to 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 cross-functional teams. 
• Strong sense of urgency and accountability to drive client outcomes while managing multiple priorities. 
• BA/BS required Masters Statistics Economics Finance or Computer Science background preferred. 
• Expert proficiency in base price optimization promotional planning promotional effectiveness markdown optimization assortment & space optimization supply-chain demand forecasting geospatial analytics A/B testing planogram analytics personalization and customer loyalty analytics preferred. 
• Experience in database analytics and direct experience using SQL Databricks Python strongly preferred 
• Intermediate proficiency in financial & contract management preferred. 

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Additional Information :

This role has a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation of $110000 - $148000. Actual salaries will vary depending on a candidates experience qualifications skills and location. This role might also be eligible for a sales-based incentive or performance-based bonus. Other benefits include a flexible working environment comprehensive health insurance industry-leading parental leave life insurance education support and more.

US Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare plan (medical Rx dental and vision).
• Flexible spending accounts and a 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.
• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (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 state-of-the-art 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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