Job Description

Think about the billions of purchases that consumers make every single day around the world. Imagine trying to make sense of the trillions of data points that represent these purchases. From a family doing online shopping for household essentials to a quick run to the supermarket, NielsenIQ is measuring the entire consumer path to purchase.

NielsenIQ Product Leadership is on the leading edge of market measurement product innovation.We use creativity, market knowledge, and data-driven PDLC processes to develop and shape the product strategy at NielsenIQ. From panel and retail measurement to the Connected System platform, and our suites of applications, NielsenIQ Product Leadership defines the market opportunities that shape our products that our Retail and Manufacturing clients use to make strategic business decisions. 

SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER

If you’re a Product Manager interested in building products to deliver retail and consumer insights to the largest companies in the Retail & Manufacturing industry, this is the opportunity for you. You’ll be at the heart of strategic goal setting, while determining where to invest and assessing which companies to partner with to continue to win in a competitive marketplace. You’ll be building and enhancing products that bring NielsenIQ’s data to the center of the decisions our clients make every day.

In this role, you’ll collaborate with a team of product, data science, operations, and commercial leaders to define product enhancements and generate/maintain detailed requirements to ensure your product meets evolving client and industry needs. These tools will be used by Retailers and CPG/FMCG Manufacturers, from the largest companies in the world to smaller local players. 

You will contribute to enhancing our Retail Measurement Services product, which is the core of NielsenIQ’s measurement, and you will provide the most precise and accurate market measurement to solve our clients’ most pressing needs.

In your role, you would:

• Own the roadmap, strategy, and long-term vision for your product, using the ‘voice of the client’ and data-driven insights to guide decision making. Iterate and adjust based on new information and stakeholder feedback. 
• Work with a cross-functional team spanning Operations, Data Science, Communications, Product Marketing, Customer Success, and more to plan, build, and deploy product enhancements. 
• Bring structure and clarity to ambiguous problems by identifying client needs and working backwards to create direction and define milestones for the team. 
• Provide domain expertise on the product and articulate the strategy with internal stakeholders and clients, as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert on the product. 
• Partner with program management teams to manage the enhancement backlog, prioritization of enhancements, value vs. complexity tradeoffs, and cross-functional dependencies/risks.
• Perform industry research, competitive analysis, and consider the overall NielsenIQ company strategy when making product decisions. 

We are looking for people with:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 2-4 years of relevant experience in a data-intensive environment.
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, deploy, and maintain products in a large corporate environment. 
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills, both verbal and written. 
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills, including the ability to exert influence across cross-functional teams in a highly-matrixed environment without formal authority.
• Ability to synthesize and communicate complex information in simple terminology. Experience communicating complex information between business/client-facing teams and technical teams. 
• History of collaborating with technical teams to solve ambiguous business problems. 
• Ability to influence effectively at all levels of the organization by tailoring communication to any given stakeholder group as needed.
• Ability to clearly and concisely capture business requirements and specifications in a manner that can be interpreted by technical teams.
• Strong analytical aptitude and a demonstrated history of using data and insights to guide product decisions. 
• Familiarity with basic financial concepts and financial planning/budgeting experience.
• Experience in FMCG and/or Retail industry is a plus.

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Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About NielsenIQ 

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. We provide consumer packaged goods manufacturers/fast-moving consumer goods and retailers with accurate, actionable information and insights and a complete picture of the complex and changing marketplace that companies need to innovate and grow. Our approach marries proprietary NielsenIQ data with other data sources to help clients around the world understand what’s happening now, what’s happening next, and how to best act on this knowledge. We like to be in the middle of the action. That’s why you can find us at work in over 90 countries, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.niq.com.

NielsenIQ is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.