Product Lead at Nielsen

Job Description

• Manage the existing product lines for profitable growth through both continuous product enhancements/developments and simplification/rationalization actions.

• Contribute to change and evolution of the product portfolio by identifying and recommending external partnership, acquisition and divestiture opportunities.

• Lead the agile client discovery process (leveraging prototyping) to identify and verify product enhancement opportunities that are valuable (clients are willing to pay), useful (simple to use to encourage frequent usage and high client penetration) and feasible (for NielsenIQ to produce and deliver at a scale). This requires the Product Lead to personally develop a deep understanding of client needs, including the needs of different personas within the client (Research, Marketing, Sales, etc)

• Provide direction/decisions on product feature specifications to enable Data Science, Operations and Technology to build and deliver efficiency, and for the Retailer Vertical to source new input data where needed.

• With MarComs, provide  Sales/Service teams with effective product marketing and sales collateral materials

• Investigate and understand competing product offerings (to enable a clear definition of NielsenIQ differentiation/advantage)

• Support, where needed, major client RFP processes (through product capability presentations, etc)

• Maintain a dual focus on “here and now” (product enhancements/developments to be executed in the current year) and on the future (by defining plans with a 24-36 month horizon)

• Continuously scan and assess the external market place for partnership and acquisition opportunities; engage when opportunities are found

• Serve on the Country/Cluster Management Team, providing advice and perspective on issues beyond the PL role scope as required

Qualifications

• 6+ years work experience in Market Research or Product Management (in non-MR industries)

• Understanding and experience of how information and technology combines to create scalable, automated solutions

• Understanding of Retail and FMCG industries is an advantage

Key Behaviours

• Creates strong and consistent multi-functional collaboration

• Understands and lives Agile development, actively seeks out the client voice personally and through others

• Makes data-driven decisions – seeks facts instead of opinions

• Focuses on outcomes (not the process)

• Simple and clear communication style

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.