NielsenIQ: Associate Client Director - Insights — Chicago, IL, United States

About NielsenIQ

NielsenIQ, also known as NIQ, works in consumer intelligence and retail measurement. Its employer material describes using market information, consumer insights and analytics to help businesses understand buying behaviour. Its data operations address the accuracy and completeness of information behind client reports, while analytical services interpret that information. The business connects details about products and retail activity with broader views of markets, giving organisations evidence for understanding demand and making commercial decisions.

The position and its setting

NielsenIQ lists Associate Client Director - Insights in Chicago, IL, United States, under reference R26_0023522|US. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Employment type: Full-time
• Employer listing date: 23 October 2026
• Brands: NielsenIQ
• Job Family: Consumer Data Insights

Responsibilities and work described

• Responsible to drive NIQ's CS Industry Insights mission for their team through delivery of Thought Leadership and accountable for the on-target delivery of team KPIs
• Own CS Industry Insights mission for the team through delivery of Thought Leadership
• Quality / delivery: team delivers as per the relevant KPIs/ success metrics
• Drive Service Model and JBPs execution strongly
• Continuously guide and coach your team in utilizing and visualizing the most relevant data for developing strategically impactful presentations full of insights and proactive recommendations
• Management: and guide the team to manage 'clients' expectations' in project scoping, prioritization, time management and adhering to JBP priorities
• Demonstrate and guide team on question probing skills to identify and uncover the most important business questions for client(s)
• Leadership: generation: Display a full understanding of all NIQ portfolio of services and products as well as 'incremental offerings', and identify, create, and convert opportunities to incremental sales through client relationships & partnerships
• Client briefing: Ensure the team receives client briefing as per the briefing form with all areas filled and client probing is done for clarity
• Carry key accountability to client and hub that the team delivers fully completed (with quality inputs) briefing forms
• Proactively partner with necessary senior stakeholders to prevent potential roadblocks and to remove them when they arise
• Drive customer satisfaction, ensuring the team delivers the best-in-class analyses and relevant and impactful insights
• Be a bi-lingual (CPS+RMS) team leader/ strategist:
• Demonstrate an everyday Consumer- driven marketing culture
• Probe and provoke clients to more business questions to analyze consumer behavior
• Generate CPS Leads (upsell contracts, ad-hoc, CAS)

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 7+ years of experience in the CPG industry and/or related sales, category management, market research
• Analytical mind and numerical skills
• Knowledge: Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Google Sheets/Slides
• Command of both written and spoken English
• Digital savvy
• Fast learner of concepts/ tools/ analyses
• Display ability to incorporate deep industry knowledge and Thought Leadership into analyses
• Proficiency: pulling, analyzing, and incorporating all NIQ data sources that are relevant to the client(s) – i.e. RMS, Homescan, Omni, Spectra, etc
• Proficiency: utilizing Discover and helping diminish/eliminate client concerns & roadblocks in order to drive usage
• Coach others in data analyses and working with the NIQ tools

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Prior experience with NielsenIQ (or similar) solutions preferred in analytics space, including POS/Panel data

Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• Other benefits include a flexible working environment, comprehensive health insurance, industry-leading parental leave, life insurance, education support and more
• Work arrangement: Remote
• Advertised location: Chicago, IL, United States

Benefits mentioned by the employer

• Comprehensive healthcare plan (medical, Rx, dental and vision)
• Flexible spending accounts and Health Savings Account (including company contributions)
• Life and AD&D insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan including company matching contributions
• Disability insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Discretionary paid time off program and 11 paid holidays
• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
• NIQ may utilize artificial intelligence (AI) tools at various stages of the recruitment process, including résumé screening, candidate assessments, interview scheduling, job matching, communication support, and certain administrative tasks that help streamline workflows

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Pay and application dates

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How to apply to NielsenIQ

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Practical preparation: Excel

Excel examples should identify the task, the data and the checks used to avoid an incorrect result. Explain whether you built a reporting workbook, reconciled records, automated a process or maintained an existing model.

Relevant skills

• Excel
• PowerPoint
• sales
• marketing
• stakeholder management
• key-account planning
• partnership development
• data analysis