NIQ Next and Innovation Leader Eastern Europe

Job Description

Within our newly formed Strategic Analytics and Insights practice we're helping our clients develop the right concepts and products, understand their consumers, grow their brand, and optimize their media strategy / investments and instore execution.

We are actively looking for a senior individual to lead our Consulting practice for Eastern Europe and drive our Innovation business.

Innovation is expanding its footprint in Eastern Europe and into new industry verticals like Consumer Durables, Gaming, Financial Services, Restaurants, Telecom and many more. We are looking for an individual who will bring research selling experience and knowledge of any of the above-mentioned industries to drive our commercial strategy and sales and deliver against our plan.

When you join the NIQ Innovation team, you’re signing up for an experience that requires agility, flexibility, curiosity, and passion.

NIQ Next is our new consulting arm; it leverages our retail expertise, data assets, and custom consumer research to support our clients in some of their more complex and advanced business questions.

Given the pivotal role of Innovation in our client's strategy and the fact that this is just the starting point, we're combining these two responsibilities into one Senior Sales role.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Proactively identify opportunities for NIQ Next consulting engagements
• Define and drive our Innovation go to market strategy
• Respond to client led enquiries and key business questions discovered through sales conversations and project deliveries
• Pro-actively approach prospects to drive demand.
• Design consulting or innovation solution proposed to client; create the required materials and related narrative to engage throughout the sales process
• Bring together different teams and allocate roles & responsibilities accordingly
• Manage the client, and their expectations, throughout the process
• Provide hands on development of sellers from an Innovation perspective and NIQ Next perspective, collaborate with market leaders, market sellers and customer success teams on projects
• Specific to Next : Co-ordinate data needs and access, analysis, and delivery outputs across the contributors. Design the final report, ensuring the quality of analysis, insight and storytelling.

Our Eastern European Lead for NIQ Next and Innovation will proactively align with global / regional commercial and consulting colleagues, as well as the respective local commercial stakeholders to drive client demand across our FMCG and T&D portfolio.

Key tasks include the end-to-end management of opportunities, from need identification to sale conclusion, through co-ordination and excellence in delivery.

In this role you will closely interact and align with Global and Regional Strategic Account Managers to develop joint account planning, deliver the NIQ next narrative to key clients, create value through our Next offering with cross-product / practices pitches and compelling proposals.

Similarly, you will closely align with our regional and global innovation practice leader to define priorities, design sales campaigns, and inform product enhancements.

REQUIREMENTS :

WE OFFER :

LI-PF1

LI-Hybrid

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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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