Retailer Business Partner

Retailer Account Development at NielsenIQ plays a significant role in connecting with our retailer partners, driving continuous sales and new business development, including farmer activities (getting retailer data)

The work is varied and exciting as you would be contributing to both clients’ and NielsenIQ’s growth. You would be working in collaboration with all Commercial and Customer success associates in Italy with the opportunity to coordinate your activities with colleagues working in other Countries. You would learn about our new and traditional services dedicated to the Retailers and to promote them to existing retailer partners. 

You would gain a strong understanding of our business and a large internal and client network.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build retailer relationships through engagement, identifies business opportunities
• Drive profitable growth leveraging the entire portfolio and winning new business from competitors
• Negotiate and close business deals and maintain extensive knowledge of NielsenIQ solutions as well as current market conditions
• Maintain relationships with strategic retailer clients, supporting and directly servicing part of the coming client requests  
• Day-to-day execution of set team sales targets following company strategy  
• Prepare Client proposals, contracts, orders to invoice
• Drive and execute sales campaigns in close collaboration with Delivery teams

Qualifications

• Higher education with a degree preferable in Economics, Marketing, Business or similar
• At least 5-7 years of experience, ideally from FMCG, distributor, retailer or marketing and/or research agency, consultancy and/or technology 
• Previous experience with NielsenIQ data and reports is a plus
• Easily adaptable to new business intelligence tools, such as, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesloft and other online tools and platforms
• Good track record in previous analytical and/or sales roles
• Recommendation from the previous employer is a plus
• Fluent in Italian and English
• Availability of visiting clients located mainly in Central/Northern Italy (candidate's car availability is a plus)

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

Besides an attractive salary & compensation package, NIQ offers flexible working hours and working from home, helping you to create a work/life balance that fits the best for your personal situation. Moreover, you will experience a dynamic, open, international and solution-oriented environment. You’ll be trained on-the-job to develop your skills and experience.

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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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