Client Director - Retail

Have you ever walked down an aisle in your local grocery store and wondered why your favorite beverage or food product moved? At NielsenIQ, we work with U.S. retailers to help them understand their consumers and to optimize their business down every aisle. We are looking to add a Client Director to our Retail team who will be accountable to drive commercial growth and deliver value to the client.

This is a hybrid role and requires being onsite weekly in Bentonville, AR

The Client Director will lead a team of Client Managers, ACMs and Analysts, guiding and coaching them to support clients to analyzedata through use of NIQ tools and services,based on NIQ standards and service model to ensure clients are delivered insights on industries, markets and consumers so that they make informed business decisions. Natural organic retail expertise is required, with proven analytic proficiency.

• Lead a high-performing team whois responsible for creating integrated analyses in support of client's strategic initiative.
• Present analyses to senior-level client contacts with actionable insights and recommendations for the client's business.
• Proactively provide subject matterexpertiseon 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 teams, including specialty sales, operations, data science, product, to further develop existing tools andidentifyrevenue opportunities outside of contracted services.

#LI-Hybrid

• 10+ years’ experience in the Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG), CPG Retail, and/or market research industry required.
• Strong analytic aptitude with the ability to apply analytic products to CPG/CPG Retail industry business issues.
• 3+ years’ experience in directly managing, mentoring, and leading associates.
• 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 andmaintainstrong 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 senseof urgency and accountability to drive client outcomes while managing multiple priorities.
• Expertproficiencyin NIQ tools and datasets.
• Advancedproficiencyin Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint.
• BA/BS required.

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

• 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
• Linked In Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• Linked In Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

NIQ may utilize artificial intelligence (AI) tools at various stages of the recruitment process, including résumé screening, candidate assessments, interview scheduling, job matching, communication support, and certain administrative tasks that help streamline workflows. These tools are intended to improve efficiency and support fair and consistent evaluation based on job-related criteria. All use of AI is governed by NIQ’s principles of fairness, transparency, human oversight, and inclusion.

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