Director, Consumer & Marketing Insights
NielsenIQ
- Wellington
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead a team with the primary responsibility of expanding the scope of influence with key clients across a wider range of products/services and greater depth of involvement
- Further foster strategic clients’ relationship with plans to cross sell or introducing new services, with aim to provide impactful solution to clients’ business issues.
- Lead key RFPs and proposal briefs, developing others in the team in writing winning proposals
- Provide ideas and thoughtful insights into new ideas and initiatives for clients, showing competency in Thought Leadership
- Accountability for the team financial KPI (revenue and margin commitment); continuous monitoring of actual versus budgeted performance
- Review and finalized draft designs (ie proposals, tools, analytic plans, reports, workshops) prepared by team members
- Actively drive issue-based analyses, deliver proactive insights, and build effective analytical presentations and consultative story telling to clients through insightful and actionable recommendations
- Develop and deliver workshops, thought leadership and other client facing deliverables as appropriate
- Effective team leadership
- Team resource management leading to on time delivery & meeting quality expectations
- Manage and cultivate client-centric team
- Assess, manage and develop talents
- Active engagement in driving team spirit
- Help drive company initiatives and reinforce key message
- Effectively manage Nielsen business processes relative to revenue and expense management
- Take lead and drive regular review/revisions of systems and procedures with the end goal of improving productivity and cost efficiency in the department
- Perform other related functions that may be assigned
- Tertiary educated.
- 10+ years related experience in Market Research agency.
- Experience in managing a team in a consultancy research environment
- Deep marketing research design and execution experience, ideally in both business and government sector
- Previous P&L responsibility
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Skills in translating data into an attractive, meaningful and actionable report presentation (PowerPoint and experimentation with other visual deliverables desirable
- Flexible working environment
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Life assurance
- Pension plan
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)