About this Job
NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and uncovering new pathways to growth. By combining advanced analytics with extensive market measurement capabilities, NIQ helps clients make confident business decisions and stay ahead in a dynamic marketplace.
NIQ’s Customer Support organization is dedicated to helping clients maximize the value of our solutions by delivering timely, high-quality assistance across a global operating model. Acting as a trusted partner to customers, the team supports users throughout their journey by resolving inquiries, guiding platform adoption, and ensuring a seamless experience with NIQ products and services.
The Customer Support Specialist (Technical) plays a key role in delivering an exceptional customer experience by helping clients successfully use NIQ’s platforms and solutions. Acting as the first point of contact for platform-related inquiries, this role troubleshoots access, configuration, functionality, and performance issues, ensuring timely resolution through the NielsenIQ Service Suite. Working closely with customers and internal teams, the specialist combines strong customer service skills with problem-solving capabilities to resolve issues, guide users, and drive positive outcomes in a global, collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Manage and resolve customer support tickets through the NielsenIQ Service Suite, ensuring timely, accurate, and high-quality responses.
- Handle support issues end‑to‑end, including information gathering, initial troubleshooting, applying known workarounds, and supporting service restoration.
- Analyze and validate client shipment data, perform coverage analysis across multiple NielsenIQ customers, and ensure data quality, consistency, and timely delivery.
- Manage and maintain complex databases, identifying data gaps, anomalies, and inconsistencies while interpreting multiple data variables to support issue investigation and resolution.
- Troubleshoot platform-related issues, including access, configuration, functionality, and performance, identifying root causes and driving resolution.
- Configure and maintain customer organizations, user groups, roles, and access permissions within NIQ platforms.
- Escalate complex issues to appropriate teams when required, maintaining ownership and clear communication throughout the resolution process.
- Partner closely with the local Issue Management team and provide ongoing support for business-as-usual (BAU) activities, ensuring service continuity and adherence to SLAs.
- Identify urgent or high‑impact issues and escalate appropriately, delivering high-quality outputs while meeting established KPIs, service levels, and operational standards.
- Contribute to a positive customer and stakeholder experience through responsiveness, proactive communication, effective prioritization, adherence to NIQ practices, and continuous improvement initiatives.
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Qualifications- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Engineering, Communications, or a related field preferred.
- Experience in Customer Support, Technical Support, Help Desk, Service Desk, or other customer-facing support roles.
- Advanced English proficiency, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate effectively with customers and stakeholders in a global environment.
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to troubleshoot user issues and support Excel-based platform solutions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate issues, identify root causes, and drive resolution.
- Ability to interpret information from multiple sources, identify patterns, inconsistencies, and trends, and apply sound judgment to resolve customer inquiries.
- Experience working with software applications, digital platforms, ticketing tools, or service management systems is preferred.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and work effectively in a fast-paced, ticket-driven environment.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively with customers, IT teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Customer-service mindset with strong empathy, accountability, and a proactive approach to delivering an exceptional customer experience.
Our Benefits
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
Our Benefits
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
NIQ may utilize artificial intelligence (AI) tools at various stages of the recruitment process, including résumé screening, candidate assessments, interview scheduling, job matching, communication support, and certain administrative tasks that help streamline workflows. These tools are intended to improve efficiency and support fair and consistent evaluation based on job-related criteria. All use of AI is governed by NIQ’s principles of fairness, transparency, human oversight, and inclusion. Final hiring decisions are made exclusively by humans. NIQ regularly reviews its AI tools to help mitigate bias and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations. If you have questions, require accommodations, or wish to request human review were permitted by law, please contact your local HR representative. For more information, please visit NIQ’s AI Safety Policies and Guiding Principles: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/info/niqs-ai-safety-policies/
About NIQ
NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.
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Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At NIQ, we are steadfast in our commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace that mirrors the rich diversity of the communities and markets we serve. We believe that embracing a wide range of perspectives drives innovation and excellence. All employment decisions at NIQ are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We invite individuals who share our dedication to inclusivity and equity to join us in making a meaningful impact. To learn more about our ongoing efforts in diversity and inclusion, please visit the https://nielseniq.com/global/en/news-center/diversity-inclusion
Skills Required
- Experience in Customer Support, Technical Support, Help Desk, Service Desk, or other customer-facing support roles
- Advanced English proficiency, both written and verbal
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including troubleshooting Excel-based platform solutions
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to interpret information from multiple sources, identify patterns, inconsistencies, and trends
- Experience working with software applications, digital platforms, ticketing tools, or service management systems
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to partner with customers and cross-functional stakeholders
- Customer-service mindset with strong empathy, accountability, and a proactive approach
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Engineering, Communications, or a related field
NielsenIQ Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NielsenIQ and has not been reviewed or approved by NielsenIQ.
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Parental & Family Support — Public materials highlight paid parental leave in the U.S., with additional paid disability time for birth parents. Parental leave is positioned as a standout element of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited or flexible PTO is referenced alongside paid holidays and sick leave, providing broad time-off options in many roles. Actual use can vary by team norms, but the formal breadth is notable.
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Flexible Benefits — Work-from-home and hybrid arrangements are supported in many roles, with remote-friendly practices described across business lines. Flexibility is frequently positioned as a meaningful advantage.
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What We Do
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. We enable businesses to make critical decisions confidently, accelerating growth and optimizing performance.
Why Work With Us
We empower companies around the world to make bold decisions and transform their business with trusted data, solutions, and insights. Joining NielsenIQ means experiencing countless learning opportunities and gaining numerous pathways for growth.
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