Account Associate, Client Development
The NPD Group
Job Info
Learn and work on meaningful initiatives with some of the best and brightest in the market research industry. The NPD Group provides the world's most successful brands with leading market research, combining consumer and retail point-of-sale data with analytic solutions to interpret today's market trends while anticipating tomorrow's. In addition, we offer a career filled with innovation and growth to the forward-thinking problem solvers who join our team.
Position Overview
You're a passionate, dynamic, collaborative and highly motivated individual who's looking for an opportunity to have an impact on some of the most well-known companies in the world. This integral member of the SupplyTrack team will report directly to the Team Manager. You will help to drive value within our accounts to ensure continued growth and profitability. If you enjoy helping clients answer important business questions and find strategic direction, this job is for you.
SupplyTrack® is the first and only monthly tracking service that codes, aggregates, and tracks every product shipped from a critical mass of leading broadline foodservice distributors to each of their customers. The Account Associate for SupplyTrack supports the NPD Group's relationship with broadline distributors.
Overall Responsibilities:
- Supporting the senior Client Development team to address day-to-day business questions for clients
- Developing and managing relationships with key client contacts
- Executing plans to increase client satisfaction
- Working with a cross-functional team to execute best practices for Category Management in the Foodservice industry
Qualifications:
- 1-3+ years of experience in research and analytics (POS, consumer, custom and/or syndicated research)
- Working knowledge of category management preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze information to create clear and concise insights that deliver value to client
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to communicate effectively across varying levels
- Expert in all MS Office products, Excel, PowerPoint, & Word
- Travel (typically
- Bachelor's degree
Communication
The ideal candidate must be able to conduct engaging and impactful analyses that deliver value to the client while telling a compelling story in a concise and polished manner to a diverse audience. Most importantly, the candidate must demonstrate the ability to listen to the customer and appropriately match the customer's needs with NPD's products and services, or be willing to direct the customer to the best solution.
Relationships
The ideal candidate must be comfortable and effective when talking with a broad range of decision influencers and decision makers within an organization. The candidate will be able to effectively understand and build relationships throughout the prospective customer's organization.
Discipline
The ideal candidate will be competent in managing their time and activities and must embrace our proven opportunity and customer management processes and systems. Candidates must possess a "can-do" perspective in their professional attitude. They will be detail oriented and demonstrate a strong work ethic. They will be sticklers for accuracy in their own work as well as their colleagues. They will be ready to back up their assertions with facts.
The NPD Group, Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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