Sports Analytics Project Manager 📊📈
In the competitive world of sports, effective media and advertising strategies are crucial to reach a mass audience. Nielsen Sports provides essential services to clients, helping them measure, analyze, and interpret the effectiveness of their advertising and investments, and 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 identify areas for improvement.
- Work closely with international colleagues to understand specific client needs and requirements, and use this information to create detailed analyses, combining data from different sources in the Nielsen Sports product portfolio.
- Turn your analysis results into compelling stories that deliver meaningful insights and added value to our clients.
- Collaborate with other teams within Nielsen across the world.
General Skills/Competency:
- Analytical mindset
- Identifying client needs
- Knowledgeable in media and sponsorship
- Good time management and prioritization skills
- Excellent communication skills to present recommendations to different audiences
- Maintain an internal and external network
- Coordinate ongoing client projects
- Continually expand your knowledge of client business issues and needs, Nielsen Sports products, and the media and advertising industry.
- Digitally literate
- Driver of automation and standardized, repeatable business processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Skills & Experience required:
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English and Arabic, and proven successful experience in a client-facing role using these languages for at least one year.
- Proven successful experience as a 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 PowerBI.
- Multiple years of experience using Python and SQL to extract and manipulate data from various sources.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a subject where both extensive written and verbal communication skills and advanced mathematical analytical skills are key.
- Strong understanding of the global media ecosystem, how it is measured, and how advertisers and media platforms interact.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Build trust and long-term relationships with defined clients.
- Develop an understanding of our client's challenges and needs, and the solutions that help them achieve their business objectives.
- Be an expert in Nielsen Sports tools and the product portfolio. 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, such as ROSCO, project management, and capacity planning tools (Monday.com), to implement and track your own projects.
- Manage simple to medium projects and work under guidance on complex projects, and provide scope, cost calculations, and feasibility checks for simple to medium projects.
- Work closely with all media operations teams at Nielsen Sports, relaying information to the appropriate team to align client projects and meet service-level agreements. Collaborate on projects with other Solutions groups, where applicable.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of our services and products by adopting and implementing automation of our processes and services. Be responsible for the profitability of your projects, ensuring that they meet or exceed budget expectations.
- Independently analyze information and present to clients with experienced team members. Analyze data and turn the results into compelling stories that deliver meaningful insights and added value to our clients.
Diversity:
At Nielsen, we believe in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, Nielsen is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome applications from people excited to work for us, regardless of their background - so please get in touch!
Nielsen provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to any protected characteristics under local law.
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