Director of Strategic Thought Leadership

• Routinely and efficiently lead the creation of compelling, high-quality perspectives and deliverables to address the client’s growth questions
  • Outputs to include a strategy framework to simplify complex ideas and organize our analyses
  • Integrate analyses from across NIQ's solutions
  • Demonstrate market expertise, establishing a POV, and offering actionable recommendations
  • Writing for an executive audience (i.e., using an economy of words) and creating opportunities to engage client organizations
  • Leading the creation of routine insights outputs and leverage outputs to share with client leaders and educate our internal audiences
  • Prepare thought leadership materials and present/publish in appropriate forums with support from analytics associates capable of conducting the direct data analysis
  • Create tools and frameworks to help other Customer Success Insights associates create outputs
• Excellent client service orientation: great social poise and persuasive communication skills to work effectively with different personalities, plus the drive to deliver high-quality results to wow clients and earn their respect & recognition
• Drive business opportunities and actionable recommendations that enable our client to win

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in the Food industry from food manufacturing, CPG, and/or consulting
• Relevant experience with research techniques & solutions in the related industries of Consumer-Packaged Goods, Consulting, Information, Sales, Analytics or similar
• Effective in senior-level communications, influencing & negotiation
• Excellent awareness of market conditions and client business environment
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Ability to be onsite 2-3 days a week