Senior Project Manager-Research-Sports(T)

OPENING FROM DEFAULT - ALL LOCATIONSAt Nielsen, we believe that career growth is a partnership. You ultimately own, fuel and set the journey. By joining our team of nearly 14,000 associates, you will become part of a community that will help you to succeed. We champion you because when you succeed, we do too. Embark on a new initiative, explore a fresh approach, and take license to think big, so we can all continuously improve. We enable your best to power our future. In the highly competitive world of sports, it's critical to use effective media and advertising strategies to communicate offerings to a mass audience. Nielsen Sports provides essential services to clients, helping them to measure, analyse, and interpret the effectiveness of their advertising and investments, and to make sound economic decisions.As part of the Global Delivery Hub Project Management team, you'll build Nielsen Sports analysis used to advise clients on the exposure of their brands or platforms in media and to identify areas for improvement. You'll work closely with International colleagues to understand specific clients needs and requirements and use this information to create detailed analyses, combining data from different sources in the Nielsen Sports product portfolio.In addition to your analytical skills, you'll have excellent communication and presentation skills, and be able to turn your analysis results into compelling stories that deliver meaningful insights and added value to our clients. You'll also have the ability to collaborate with other teams within Nielsen across the world.

General Skills/Competency

Key skills and competencies for this role include having an analytical mindset, identifying client needs, being knowledgeable in media and sponsorship, good time management and prioritization skills, and excellent communication skills to present recommendations to different audiences. You'll also need to maintain an internal and external network, coordinate ongoing client projects, and continually expand your knowledge of client business issues and needs, Nielsen Sports products, and the media and advertising industry. Furthermore, you should be digitally literate, and a driver of automation and standardised, repeatable business processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness. With your help, we can support our clients in achieving their business growth goals, and deliver high-quality services that exceed their expectations.

Roles and Responsibilities

Senior Project Manager, ResearchReports to: Delivery Team Leader (Research) Purpose: Client-facing, liaison between clients, sales teams and onshore research team colleagues, managing client quantitative research projects and internally coordinating with diverse Nielsen Sports and external data source owners to deliver clients solutions Skills & Experience required: Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English and proven successful experience in a client facing role for at least one year. Proven successful experience as a consumer research project manager, delivering complex client analytical projects, using project management platforms and managing diverse stakeholders. Experience using Business Intelligence tools/platforms, Microsoft’s PowerBI. Must be experienced in using SPSS files and/or Q Research software.  Experience in using Data Visualization / Dashboard platforms such as DataLion, Display R. Must be proficient with Microsoft office – specifically Excel / .csv and Powerpoint. Proficiency with Excel, including pivot tables, macros and advanced grounding in custom research principles, methodologies, statistical and proactive personality with good problem-solving availability during synchronized work hours with the MR team for real-timecommunication and swift responses to project to maintaining high-quality standards with meticulous attention to organizational and project management skills able to work on multiple projects management skills - of both your own time and in setting realistic commitments, deadlines and delivery to other internal stakeholders. Ability to analyse, interpret and leverage research data to derive strategic insights and recommendations related to client objectivesPro-active mindset and ability to think laterally in relation to tasks and requirements. Bachelor degree or higher in a subject where both extensive written and verbal communication skills and advanced mathematical analytical skills are key Also desirable..Experience of data analysis programming languages a plus: R, Python, SQLFamiliar with analytic techniques such as Regression / Segmentation / TURF Analysis /Conjoint Analysis / Max DiffExperience in scripting online understanding of international sports events, teams and leagues.

Tasks And Responsibilities

You'll be expected to independently manage and deliver simple to medium projects, and work under guidance as part of a wider team on those more complex in across all different types of market research projects including single country / multi country ad hoc / tracking / an understanding of our client's challenges and needs, and the solutions that help them achieve their business compelling bespoke analysis which directly address the key strategic questions of our existing project planning tools, project management and capacity planning tools (), to implement and track your own time and cost efficiencies on best practice procedures and recommend to the continuous improvement of our services and products by adopting and implementing automation of our processes and services. You'll also be responsible for the profitability of your projects, ensuring that they meet or exceed budget expectations. Specific responsibilities aligned to a typical project lifecycle include -  Project Design -Provide scope, cost calculations, and feasibility checks. Project Management - Liaise with and manage third party providersManage survey data processing for market research projects, ensuring that all relevant quality assurance measures / controls have been taken to deliver a clean and accurate data accountable for final quality of data ( tables, data files) Data Analysis & Delivery - Coding of open-ended responses with our DP software (Q).Analysis of consumer research data leveraging data analysis tools (Q)Statistical analysis techniques such as Regression / Segmentation / TURF Analysis / Conjoint Analysis / Max DiffProduction of client deliverables (Excel, PPT, Dashboard Tools)Interpretation of data to provide insight and address specific client objectives

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