Job Description

Own Data Science for a specific-market/industry on new and already established products, services and design.

Be a Data Science business partner for country / cluster leaders, commercial, product, and technology leaders to achieve country specific goals including revenue and EBITDA and other objectives.

Regularly meet directly with clients to understand strategic business needs, translate them into analytical strategies and offer innovative solutions driven through state of the art methodologies in Data Science.

Support Client and Commercial teams with Data Science design and methodological questions.

Play a leading role in the application of data and analytics strategies in support of clients\' business needs.

Innovate and create out of the box solutions by leveraging large and diverse data sets and state of the art technologies.

Collaborate and align with other Data Science team units to deliver and prioritize objectives.

Enable Data Science technology solutions on the ground and ensure solutions meets client needs.

Leverage DSCi Methods, Product and Technology teams to bring to the market services and solutions.

Contribute to identifying third parties and evaluate their capabilities and data sets in order to develop new solutions.

Design and conduct studies, tests and use advanced analytics techniques to build proof of concept and prototypes for use cases.

Enable your team to focus on innovation and contribute to the company's objectives.

Coach and develop junior data scientists.

Lead the team and provide performance objectives.

Qualifications

Experience

Professionals with degrees in Maths, Data Science, Statistics, or related fields involving statistical analysis of large data sets.

5+ years of experience in market research or relevant field

Solid understanding of CPG/FMCG Industry and Retail market impact on client's business within the market.

Work experience on eCommerce, webscraping solutions, consumer sourced data solutions is preferred

Qualifications

Soft skills qualifications

Passionate about innovation and technology

Experienced connecting with stakeholders and clients proactively, finding ways to link client's needs with the business.

Innovative mindset, creativity, thinking out-of-the-box.

Good ability to effectively convey complex concepts to non-experts.

Strong Problem-Solving skills

Intellectual curiosity and persistence to find answers to questions.

Great collaborative and interpersonal skills to communicate at all levels.

Ability to set priorities.

Good leadership skills.

Business acumen, consultative skills and empathy for clients.

Great command of written and spoken English

Eager to continuously learn and adapt to changing technologies and tools.

Good ability to make decisions and successfully manage multiple assignments concurrently in a high pressure environment.

Good people management skills and coaching.

Analytical and Technical skills:

Solid understanding of Statistics

Strong aptitude for data analysis.

Solid critical/ logical thinking.

Business acumen, finance and budgeting knowledge

Knowledge / familiarity on data visualization tools (e.g. Spotfire, Tableau, etc) and programming languages (Python, R), preferred.

Additional Information

About NielsenIQ

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company providing the most complete and trusted view of consumers and markets in 90 countries covering 90% of the world's population. Focusing on consumer-packaged goods manufacturers and FMCG and retailers, we enable customers to defy what's possible. How? We combine unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology, and the industry's top talent to create insights that unlock innovation. Join us and change the landscape.

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