NielsenIQ is the industry leader in global measurement and data analytics, and the most trusted source for retail and consumer intelligence. We deliver the complete truth to retailers, manufacturers, and our partners through our comprehensive data sets and powerful insights.

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Senior Research Executive

Job Type

Full Time

Qualification

BA/BSc/HND

Experience

2 - 5 years

Location

Nairobi

Job Field

Research

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 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.
• Strong client focus - 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

• 2-5 years’ experience and proven success with Market research (quantitative essential, qualitative an advantage).
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• Strong client focus - 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.

• 2-5 years’ experience and proven success with Market research (quantitative essential, qualitative an advantage).
• 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.