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In the highly competitive world of sports, it's critical to use effective media and advertising strategies to communicate offerings to a mass audience. Nielsen Sports provides essential services to clients, helping them to measure, analyse, and interpret the effectiveness of their advertising and investments, and to make sound economic decisions.

As part of the Global Delivery Hub Project Management team, you'll build Nielsen Sports analysis used to advise clients on the exposure of their brands or platforms in media and to identify areas for improvement. You'll work closely with International colleagues to understand specific clients needs and requirements and use this information to create detailed analyses, combining data from different sources in the Nielsen Sports product portfolio.

In addition to your analytical skills, you'll have excellent communication and presentation skills, and be able to turn your analysis results into compelling stories that deliver meaningful insights and added value to our clients. You'll also have the ability to collaborate with other teams within Nielsen across the world.

General Skills/Competency

• Key skills and competencies for this role include having strong successful experience as a people leader, analytical mindset, identifying client needs, being knowledgeable in media and sponsorship, good time management and prioritization skills, and excellent communication skills to present recommendations to different audiences. You'll also need to maintain an internal and external network, coordinate ongoing client projects, and continually expand your knowledge of client business issues and needs, Nielsen Sports products, and the media and advertising industry.

• Furthermore, you should be digitally literate, and a driver of automation and standardised, repeatable business processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness. With your help, we can support our clients in achieving their business growth goals, and deliver high-quality services that exceed their expectations.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Skills & Experience required:

• Proven success as a people leader in a consumer research and analytics environmentExcellent spoken and written communication skills in English and proven successful experience in a client facing role for at least one year.

• Proven successful experience as a consumer research project manager, delivering complex client analytical projects, using project management platforms and managing diverse stakeholders.

• Experience using Business Intelligence tools/platforms, e.g. Microsoft’s PowerBIMust be proficient with Microsoft office – specifically Excel / .csv and Powerpoint.

• Proficiency with Excel, including pivot tables, macros and advanced formulae.

• Good grounding in custom research principles, methodologies, statistical techniques.

• Enthusiastic and proactive personality with good problem-solving skills.

• Flexible availability during synchronized work hours with the MR team for real-timecommunication and swift responses to project requirements.

• Dedicated to maintaining high-quality standards with meticulous attention to detail.

• Strong organizational and project management skills able to work on multiple projects simultaneously.

• Time management skills - of both your own time and in setting realistic commitments, deadlines and delivery to other internal stakeholders.

• Ability to analyse, interpret and leverage research data to derive strategic insights and recommendations related to client objectivesPro-active mindset and ability to think laterally in relation to tasks and requirements.

• Bachelor degree or higher in a subject where both extensive written and verbal communication skills and advanced mathematical analytical skills are key

Tasks And Responsibilities

• People Management & Team Leadership - As the team leader, your primary responsibility will be managing your team effectively to produce great project outcomes and client satisfaction, coupled with strong retention and development of the talent in your team.

• Independently lead / manage complex projects, whilst providing guidance to your team on more simple projects.

• Manage work across all different types of market research projects including single country / multi country ad hoc / tracking / syndicated.

• Build your team’s capability to build compelling bespoke analysis which directly addresses the key strategic objectives of our clients.

• Project Management - Lead on project design to provide scope, cost calculations, and feasibility checks.

• Manage third party vendors to ensure that all relevant quality assurance measures / controls have been taken to deliver clean and accurate data sets.Use existing project planning tools, project management and capacity planning tools ( Monday.com ), to implement and track your own projects. Contribute to the continuous improvement of our services and products by adopting and implementing automation of our processes and services. You'll also be responsible for the profitability of your projects, ensuring that they meet or exceed budget expectations.Drive time and cost efficiencies on projects.Ensure compliance with best practice procedures and recommend improvements.

• Project Delivery - Develop an understanding of our client's challenges and needs, and the solutions that help them achieve their business objectives.Ultimately accountable for final quality of project deliverables, ensuring that client objectives are specifically answered and insights providedProvide support / guidance in the preparation of deliverable materials, interactive dashboards, etc