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Title: Consumer Insight Lead - Nigeria Job at Nielsen Holdings
Post by: Jobrib on Nov 21, 2013, 05:32 PM
Job Title: Consumer Insight Lead  

Location: Nigeria  

Employer: Nielsen Holdings N.V. (NYSE: NLSN)

Job description: Reporting to the Managing Director, Nigeria – You will be responsible for leading the Consumer Insight and Innovation Practice area in Nigeria. You will be expected to manage a client portfolio effectively and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

•   Grow the current Consumer Insight client base by targeting clients to convert opportunities into profitable revenue.

•   Drive thought leadership.

•   Responsible for the CI Department Profit and Loss.

•   Contributes toward to developing tailored solutions for the local market.

•   Manage a team of client and research executives to meet revenue targets set for the division and to ensure that proposals are profitable and quality standards and deadlines are met.

•   Maintaining excellent quality relationships with the current client base.

•   Portray accurately the vision and desired company attributes to industry as a whole.

•   Represents the company with academic and industry contacts.

•   Identify and develop top talent and lead the CI Client Service team to deliver and execute on agreed objectives.

•   Manage the relationship with support departments to maintain and improve efficiency and productivity of the CI CS department.

•   Promote new CR CI products to existing and new clients.

Desired Skills and Experience:

•   Degree/ Masters in Marketing Research, Economics, Strategic Planning or a related field.

•   10+ year's client servicing experience.

•   Experience in both qualitative and quantitative research.

•   Experience in management consulting is beneficial.  

•   Strong management, interpersonal and communication skills.

•   Strong relationship-building skills and results orientation.

•   Attentive to details with good aptitude for data analysis.

•   Proven ability to work cross-functionally to energize, empower and influence at all levels (both internal and external), and to set and meet tight goals/timelines.

•   Ability to listen and quickly distill a situation and recommend a course of action to drive on-time, on-budget delivery of program deliverables.

•   Proven experience in the principles around financial cost drivers and implications to project execution.

•   Have strong conceptual and data analysis skills.

•   The ability to work both strategically and operationally within the functional role.

•   Should be self-directed and capable of handling large, concurrent projects with minimal supervision.

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