Total 12 scientific operations manager job vacancies in Petaling Jaya

NIQ Customer Support team is focusing on building positive customer experiences by offering outstanding customer-centric servicing and support to uncover insights on consumer buying behavior, in a timely and consistent manner. This role drives loyalty and empowerment to enhance our customers' use of our data and tools through specialty expertise, engagement, and solutioning.

Responsibilities

• Support team in managing in-market complex customer queries, build apt hypothesis and bring prompt resolution with data support and effective communication.
• Work closely with in-market Consulting, Analytics & Insights team, Operations and Data Science, Global customer Service Centre to ensure all work is connected to client business issues and is delivered according to established timelines and in a way that contributes to driving client outcomes.
• Create an environment to encourage and drive solution mindset and to leverage best practices.
• Enhance servicing efficiencies through planning and execution of client engagement model to attain acceptable client (NPS) satisfaction scores.
• Measure emerging issues and quality trends, flag out areas of improvement regularly, and share with respective teams for improvement.

This position will be responsible for delighting clients around Asia Pacific through delivering retail measurement insights and analysis.

Main responsibilities include:

• Delight client stakeholders through retail measurement and consumer panel insights for a regional headquarter of a global client
• To help drive positive Net Promoter Score across the APAC region and HQ for the client
• Partner with the local NIQ market teams to elevate the customer engagement
• Contribute to regional industry and strategic thought leadership
• Collaborate on transforming the client experience with more efficiency of insights through Discover and embracing the NielsenIQ Service Model
• Support Account Development to identify revenue leads to help drive further growth

• Responsible for an annual revenue target to be executed / developed through new business in the year.  
• Work together with Vertical Leaders / Customer Success Teams and independently identifying and addressing client’s business issue or project brief, with the support from the technical teams proposing the right & relevant solution (i.e. type of consumer study, data collection approach, research design, timeline and investment). This includes developing & presenting the proposed solution to clients.  
• Take lead on proactive client engagement, identifying the right decision makers within the targeted companies and maintain a relationship with prospective clients with the aim to become a trusted advisor, thus gaining more business opportunities.  
• Maintain an accurate and up to date knowledge on research techniques and applications; eager to learn about value added analysis to properly answer client’s key research objectives.   
• Demonstrate willingness and ability to think about the client's business and take concrete steps towards building knowledge about a key industry vertical and also Consumer Insights Solution.  
• Ensure the vertical leaders and customer success teams have a full understanding of the prospective client’s requirements to ensure we deliver quality outputs and achieve high CSAT results  
• Ensure the right costing and margin of all out going proposals 
• Support in Marcoms and create email campaigns via Sales Loft 
• Full compliance with our costing, leads, pipeline and revenue systems in timely manner 

• Lead a team of 3 - 5 analysts to deliver consistent and high-quality actionable insight   
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior client stakeholders  
• Coach, develop and inspire team to develop careers and drive innovative approaches to client briefs  
• Manage internal stakeholders and projects to ensure the client’s requirements are translated into delivering the very best NIQ-GFK CMI can offer.   
• Proactively share and exchange best practice and industry knowledge across NIQ-GFK internal teams  
• Be responsible for delivering analytics & insights services and conducting tactical client training for Guided Analytics & NIQ GFK CMI products and solutions such as Brand Health, segmentation, Usage & Attitudes, Customer Experience, Shopper and Qualitative research.
• Entrusted to deliver flawless research and analytics to our clients. 
• Be responsible for identifying opportunities through day-to-day engagements with our clients, handing off opportunities to Account Development to pursue 
• Have a strong working knowledge of the client business priorities and the role we can play in supporting these goals
• Be a confident and capable crafter of compelling insights, deliver clear and actionable recommendations to our clients helping them grow their business.    

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Commercial Account Development Senior Manager /Associate Director who has prior experience generating new revenue from existing clients. Taking direct accountability for at least 2 major global clients, the Account Development SM/AD combines an excellent knowledge of the FMCG industry and a deep understanding of NIQ products and services. You will be responsible for aligning key customer priorities and insights with NIQ’s capabilities, identifying and converting opportunities to deepen commercial relationships and drive additional revenue.

You will develop and maintain effective relationships with individuals and teams both internally and with the clients, to provide best-in-class NIQ/client commercial partnerships.

We are looking for someone ready to drive positive change, able to challenge wider business processes, and be fully driven by achieving success with the support of the wider industry team.

You will need to engage at all levels and work successfully across a matrixed organization structure, fully leveraging the service model.

Responsibilities

• Individual seller responsible for accelerating organic growth whilst delivering on revenue plans
• Own the commercial relationship with your clients, develop Joint Business Plans and a strong understanding of your clients’ business strategy, objectives and growth opportunities
• Devise a strategic approach with agile and flexible solutions that deliver value to our clients in a profitable way
• Deliver revenue plans by negotiating the renewal of contracts and continuous services with clients
• Identify sales opportunities for NIQ services and solutions to help the client achieve their strategic objectives
• Own and deliver on global contractual commitments with clients
• Build and maintain strong networking and C-suite engagement with key players in the clients’ business, and lead discussions with a wide range of decision influencers and budget owners
• Partner and develop effective relationships with Market Sales Leaders, Customer Success and relevant teams in the region to enable them to achieve their targets
• Represent and advocate for the NIQ brand through external events to unlock opportunities among clients

NIQ Retailer Vertical (RV) simplify and streamline collaboration between retailers and suppliers by providing a joint set of tools through a shared platform. Now, you can access diverse data sources, visualizations and analytical tools that help you differentiate your brand while keeping your retailer’s perspective top of mind. With you and your retailers using the same tools, you’ll be able to deliver mutual growth with speed, accuracy and consistency.

Maintain a client service orientation by managing day-to-day administration of client service and coordinating on analysis and reporting of assigned research projects.

Responsibilities

• Maintain an accurate, complete, up-to-date and insightful client business profiles to be shared with senior management
• Drive client satisfaction by providing insights and actionable recommendations during presentations or business reviews and also by providing value-added analyses and response to special requests.
• Undertake sales activities independently or in conjunction with senior staff in terms of preparation and delivery of proposal and credentials
• Ensure the generation of required revenue from the assigned client portfolio and proper contract costing in order to meet the agreed budget targets
• Identify and recommend enhanced and new services that answer clients' business needs
• Build and maintain ongoing relationships with the identified key persons within client organization.

A Little About You

With your analytical thinking, you will be able to see beyond the numbers and create a seamless analysis to help your client’s business to grow. Being an open mind will help you in learning and understanding the world of FMCG, in which your clients play. The ability to manage time and set up priorities will define your account management style.

We are looking for an intern to join our operations team. You will be supporting instructions of client deliverables, coding and data input validation focusing on specific industry/category or set of categories (e.g. Beverages, Food, Health and Beauty Products). As an operations intern at NIQ, you create and deliver client outputs in a correct and timely manner.

Responsibilities

• Ensures data integrity during data processing.
• Verify the accuracy and validity of data processed.
• Assist to resolve and check any quality issues raised by supervisors/clients.
• Maintain positive working relationships and open communication with across relevant Operations teams to ensure delivery to client expectations and satisfaction.
• Ensure that the company’s regional and global standards are always adhered to all the times.
• To support any department / team projects / other duties as and when deemed necessary

About the job

As the world's largest research organization, Nielsen IQ is powered by talented creative scientists. Our Data Scientist Business Leaders come from diverse disciplines such as statistics, research methodology, mathematics, psychology, business, engineering, physics and demography. These professionals drive innovation, new product ideation, develops complex analysis and delivery of data insights to measure what consumers buy.

Responsibilities

• Own Data Science solutions for client requests and provide initial recommendations for complex client raised issues.
• Support Internal and External Clients with the understanding of Data Science design and methodology.
• Accompanied senior leaders meet with clients to understand business needs and help offer innovative solutions.
• Work on creating new solutions use cases, proof of concept and prototypes by exploring diverse data sets using tools such as python/r.
• Understand Nielsen products and services to suggest new solutions for client challenges.
• Collaborate with other Data Science team units.
• Automate and develop solutions for existing processes.
• Innovate and create out of the box solutions by leveraging large and diverse data sets and state of the art technologies.

NIQ GFK CMI’s Customer Success Team is focused on delivering world class insights and reports to the clients and striving for very high level of Customer Satisfaction and advocacy.

Customer Success is NIQ GFK’s key department which is instrumental for the company’s success.

A successful candidate for this role will be someone who can establish strong relationships with both our clients and our colleagues. You will quickly become a trusted partner, working with many of our clients’ teams, including marketing, sales, category, and many more.

You will be expected to understand our clients’ needs and then create and present solutions that help achieve their strategic and tactical goals.  

If telling stories through data excites you but you’re uncertain whether you have the data knowledge: get in touch. We have an excellent training program, ensuring you understand all our products and how we create analyses.  

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 3 - 5 analysts to deliver consistent and high-quality actionable insight   
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior client stakeholders  
• Coach, develop and inspire team to develop careers and drive innovative approaches to client briefs  
• Manage internal stakeholders and projects to ensure the client’s requirements are translated into delivering the very best NIQ-GFK CMI can offer.   
• Proactively share and exchange best practice and industry knowledge across NIQ-GFK internal teams  
• Be responsible for delivering analytics & insights services and conducting tactical client training for Guided Analytics & NIQ GFK CMI products and solutions such as Brand Health, segmentation, Usage & Attitudes, Customer Experience, Shopper and Qualitative research.
• Entrusted to deliver flawless research and analytics to our clients. 
• Be responsible for identifying opportunities through day-to-day engagements with our clients, handing off opportunities to Account Development to pursue 
• Have a strong working knowledge of the client business priorities and the role we can play in supporting these goals
• Be a confident and capable crafter of compelling insights, deliver clear and actionable recommendations to our clients helping them grow their business.    

We are looking for an intern to join our operations team. You will be supporting instructions of client deliverables, coding and data input validation focusing on specific industry/category or set of categories (e.g. Beverages, Food, Health and Beauty Products). As an operations intern at NIQ, you create and deliver client outputs in a correct and timely manner.

Responsibilities

• Ensures data integrity during data processing.
• Verify the accuracy and validity of data processed.
• Assist to resolve and check any quality issues raised by supervisors/clients.
• Maintain positive working relationships and open communication with across relevant Operations teams to ensure delivery to client expectations and satisfaction.
• Ensure that the company’s regional and global standards are always adhered to all the times.
• To support any department / team projects / other duties as and when deemed necessary

The Reference Data Specialist is responsible for instructions of client deliverables, coding and data input validation focusing on specific industry/category or set of categories (e.g. Beverages, Food, Health and Beauty Products). As a Reference Data Specialist at NIQ, you create and deliver client outputs in a correct and timely manner.

• Responsible for instructions of client deliverables, coding and data input validation focusing on specific industry/category or set of categories.
• Does cross coding and item-related quality checks on a daily basis
• May act as a back-up to other coders when needed; conduct physical store check to validate item-related information
• Keep track/document special instructions related to category assignment
• Plan and execute a complex daily personal workload and support to meet departmental and company schedules
• Ensure accuracy throughout the process, from validation before database setup to managing samples, and identify areas for improvement
• Answer external questions and act as a liaison with everyone from clients to stakeholders; To be able to identify, investigate and coordinate the resolution of data, process, or product related queries
• Willing to be trained to be a category expert

As an Analytics & Insights Manager, you will be an information resource expert within the FMCG industry, providing dedicated support to assigned clients across Malaysia. You will collaborate closely with operations and account teams, to help client users leverage the suite of products/services and make informed business decisions. Assignments can range from brand performance analyses to thought leadership sharing with top-level executives.    

• Be the day-to-day contact of Retail Measurement Services clients. You will advise clients on RMS resources and tools, data standards and analyses, audit and calculation methodologies, and other information services.   
• Deliver analyses, charts, and reports that are clear, concise, and meaningful to clients. Engage effectively with multiple clients at a time, to ensure that deliverables meet/exceed expectations of timeliness and quality.   
• Conduct regular reviews with Client Service and Operations teams, to monitor service delivery KPIs involving response times, quality levels, and workflow efficiency. Key contributor role in identifying process improvement opportunities.   
• Manage a team of 3-4 executives, guiding them with their analysis to ensure it provides clear actionable recommendations to clients.   
• Maintain timely communications with account teams and senior management, to keep stakeholders up-to-date on client requirements and call out any issues/ risks. Document records of client inquiries and resolutions, into activity logs and Knowledge Base file shares.   
• Support senior management in developing Thought Leadership case studies.   
• Successful candidates can look forward to a comprehensive training program.