Job Description

Imagine working closely with many of the world’s largest sports properties, brands, and agencies worldwide to help them better understand their fans and how to best maximize sponsorship sales and investments. 

Nielsen Sports is a trusted adviser and partner in sports and entertainment intelligence, helping our clients worldwide to maximize their commercial success. With our expansive suite of products and services, Nielsen Sports is uniquely positioned to provide insights and intelligence which help drive more effective decision making for clients. 

The Research Manager role for Nielsen Sports will be responsible for executing and managing research projects across all business verticals to provide valuable analytics and insights to key clients. Working with the global market leaders in sports and sponsorship research. The Research Manager will be a part of a diverse and talented team with the opportunity for personal and professional development. 
 

Job Description

• The responsibilities for this role will be to work alongside the commercial Sports team, as well as our Market Research team to deliver actionable insights to our clients.

• This person will help design the project, assist in fieldwork of the project, and create a report that can easily be utilized by the client.

• Contextualize survey data into meaningful insights that help inform clients’ business strategies and succinctly answer critical questions

• Utilize internal syndicated data sources to deliver a mixture of recurring and ad hoc reports for both internal and external clients

• Manage and mentor colleagues

• Assist the commercial team with new business opportunities, renewals, and upsells.

• Help evolve the research offerings

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Market Research experience at a brand, agency or supplier

• Significant experience with questionnaire/survey design, survey testing, QC’ing data

• Strong knowledge of research methodologies, statistical analysis, and data visualization tools

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Outstanding communication and presentation abilities

• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines

• Leadership skills and experience managing teams

• Experience analyzing data via any of the following but not limited to: (SPSS, R, Qualtrics, Excel, Displayr)

• Qualitative Market Research experience is a plus

• Working with Microsoft Office tools

• Managing projects independently

Additional Information

Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, company provided car for those who qualify, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance.

A reasonable estimated salary range for a new employee has been provided. It would be adjusted based on each employee's geographic location. The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs.

Nielsen makes hiring decisions without regard to disability status, protected veteran status, or membership in any other protected class.

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Job Tags

Full time, Work at office, Worldwide,

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