R24_0009896

This role is hybrid and will report to our 200 W. Jackson, Chicago HQ 2 days a week.

About this job

You will be responsible for securing new customers by performing all sales activities and account management, from lead generation, to close, through to fulfillment for prospects. Using a consultative selling approach, this individual will match NielsenIQ products and services to client needs in order to achieve total client satisfaction and team financial objectives.

CPG & Retail insights you can trust. Answers you can act on.

We help small CPG manufacturers pinpoint exactly what to do to sell more - without an army of analysts or huge budgets. Our various solutions enable our clients to easily access, visualize, and extract actionable business insights powered by NielsenIQ data.

Responsibilities

• Meet or exceed revenue target.
• Execute against sales initiatives: attend in-person trade shows each year, perform cold-call lead generation, conduct marketing campaigns to identify potential clients, qualify and generate sales, and conduct software demos.
• Self-starter to proactively prospect the marketplace to expand our client base and drive repeat purchases with occasional buyers.
• Use a consultative selling approach to identify client business need, qualify, probe, scope and sell in NielsenIQ services.
• Execute end-to-end sales process including price generation, writing proposals, negotiating terms, closing the sale, and ensuring delivery to clients.
• Develop and manage relationships with clients and prospects.
• Manage client relationship and sales efforts with recurring ad-hoc clients by promptly answering client questions regarding data quality, service offering and product delivery.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Become proficient in NielsenIQ services, systems, and software tools.

A Little Bit About You 

You enjoy fostering and growing customer relationships and working with syndicated data sets and analytic solutions across large matrixed organizations.  You seek to educate your clients on various areas across the NielsenIQ product suite and are looking to create fully integrated solutions to solve your client’s most pressing business issues. You’re comfortable with learning, using, and presenting the benefits of the industry’s latest cloud-based technology and analytic solutions.

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or related field.
• 5 years experience as an account executive is required.
• CPG or experience selling a product or software is required.
• Strong selling, critical thinking, analytic, customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written), presentation and negotiation skills.
• Self-motivated with a sense of urgency and is well organized.
• Creative, independent work ethic with the ability to solve problems
• Proficient in MS Office products.

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/news-center/diversity-inclusion