Job Description

At 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 leadership, you'll lead a team who 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 answer clients' key business questions, combining data from different sources in the Nielsen Sports product portfolio.

In addition to your analytical skills, you'll have excellent problem definition and storylining' 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 proven people leadership skills, 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

• Proven People leadership skills in a similar consulting and analytics context.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English and proven successful experience in a client face role using this language for at least one year.
• Proven successful experience as a consulting project manager, delivering complex client analytical projects, using project management platforms and managing diverse stakeholders.
• High level of competence using Business Intelligence tools/platforms, especially Microsoft's PowerBISubstantial previous experience of using Digital Analytics tools such as Radarly, Social Bakers, Crowdtangle, FanPageKarma etc.
• You will be very familiar with key aspect of Social Media Monitoring and Benchmarking, and developments in Social Media platforms relevant to the global sports and sponsorship industry
• Masters degree or higher in a subject where both extensive written and verbal communication skills and advanced mathematical analytical skills are key.
• Strong understanding of the global media and sports ecosystem, how it is measured, and how advertisers, media, platforms and fans interact

### Tasks And Responsibilities

• Building trust and long-term relationships with defined clientsDevelop an understanding of our client's challenges and needs, and the solutions that help them achieve their business objectives.
• Being an expert in Nielsen Sports tools and the product portfolio.
• You'll continuously expand your knowledge of our clients, the sports business landscape, and the media and advertising industry to provide the most effective solutions to our clients.
• Use existing project planning tools, project management and capacity planning tools (Monday.
• com), to implement and track your own projects.
• You'll manage complex projects directly and supervise the management of simpler projects by members of your team, providing scope, cost calculations, and feasibility checks for a wide range of projects.
• Working closely across all Nielsen Sports and external data sources to build compelling bespoke analysis which directly address the key strategic questions of our clients
• Contributing 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.
• Independently analysing information and presenting to clients with experienced team members. You'll be able to analyse data and turn the results into compelling stories that deliver meaningful insights and added value to our clients.
• Overall, your role will be essential to ensuring our clients' success in the sports industry. You'll have a unique opportunity to use your expertise in media and project management to make a significant impact on our clients' businesses and contribute to the growth of Nielsen Sports.