Senior Research Executive - JHB at NielsenIQ

Purpose of the role:

• Ideal candidate will be required to deliver daily prompt analysis of data to client stakeholders, as required to meet their needs.

Main Responsibilities:

• Drive client satisfaction by providing insights and actionable recommendations during reporting, presentations and business reviews and also by providing value-added analyses and response to special requests.
• Build and maintain ongoing relationships with the identified key persons within client organization
• Liaise daily with senior management to identify their needs and recommend then deliver new analyses beyond their expectations and understanding.

Knowledge and Skills Requirement:

• Strong client focus
• Strong understanding of measurement data to enable meaningful conversations with all client stakeholders, and ensure accurate representation of the data in reporting and insights
• Knowledge of statistics and multivariate analysis
• Ability to understand all technical and delivery aspects of the modeling process to carry out internal Nielsen and client based conversations
• Experienced with analysis tools for data extraction at a complex level
• Able to influence and persuade.
• Strong customer service and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to analyse and interpret data in a challenging and insightful manner
• Excellent presentation development skills to creatively to bring data to life with story-telling and attractive reporting to client expectations
• Confident presenting skills to deliver insights, stories and actions in face to face or group presentations
• Efficient time management, ability to multi-task and detail oriented
• Displays maturity and creative problem solving skills in handling crises
• Recommend improvements in work processes within area of responsibility
• Able to operate in a multi-cultural environment.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years’ experience and proven success with Market research (both qualitative &quantitative)
• Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university
• Strong analysis skills and insight generation
• Good grounding in custom research principles, methodologies, statistical techniques
• Basic business understanding (e.g. comfortable with terminology: revenue, profit, loss, margin)
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills or Google Slides and Google Sheets.