Account Associate

Account Associate, Client Insights - Food service

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What will you be doing?

As an Account Associate supporting Food service industry clients, you will develop a consultative selling relationship with restaurant operators. You will grow business relationships, drive client satisfaction, and meet and/or exceed revenue goals by delivering insightful industry analyses to support clients in developing and executing against their strategic plans.

Job Responsibilities

* Provide support to the team in managing the day-to-day activities to enhance client relationships, including but not limited to, sharing analyses on specific topics, answering relevant client questions, training/educating clients to drive adoption, and usage of Circana's strategic data sets, etc.

* Partner with account leads and cross-functional departments to drive initiatives which support the sale and delivery of Circana's solutions

* Understand our clients' organizations and their business strategies, objectives, and challenges. Attend/present insights at client meetings.

* Proactively search for meaningful trends within Circana's proprietary data and share findings with both internal and external audiences

* Problem-solve and maintain relationships with adaptability, urgency, and positivity

* Manage creation and distribution of weekly, monthly, and quarterly ongoing "key insights" presentations and/or deliverables

Requirements

* Bachelor's degree

* College graduate - Less than 2 years of prior experience in a role that utilizes data and analysis to add value to clients

* Experience in all MS Office products, Excel, PowerPoint, & Word

* Experience with Circana data tools is a plus

* Demonstrated ability to work across various data sets and reporting tools

* Advanced interpersonal skills and strong orientation towards building client relationships

* Excellent time management and organizational skills

* Able to set priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, multitasking environment

* Strong oral and written communication skills;
Confident in presenting to groups

* Highly detail oriented - with commitment to total quality and data accuracy

Circana Behaviors

As well as the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our shared behaviors sit at the core of our organization. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion these behaviors throughout the business within their day-to-day role:

* Stay Curious:
Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions.

* Seek Clarity:
Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action.

* Own the Outcome:
Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices.

* Center on the Client:
Relentlessly adding value for our customers.

* Be a Challenger:
Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement.

* Champion Inclusivity:
Fostering trust in relationships engaging with empathy, respect, and integrity.

* Commit to each other:
Contributing to making Circana a great place to work for everyone.

Location

This position can be located in the following area(s):
Chicago, IL or Hybrid

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more…