Insights Analyst
About The Position
NIQ is seeking an Analyst, Insights – OTC & Personal Care to support the day-to-day insights partnership with a leading OTC and Personal Care manufacturer. The role helps client teams identify growth opportunities, understand marketplace changes, and make stronger business decisions by transforming data into meaningful business stories and actionable recommendations. The analyst works closely with client stakeholders and the NIQ team, handling analysis from designing and executing models through interpreting results, simulating client plans, creating deliverables, and supporting presentations, training, and tool delivery. This is a hybrid role requiring at least two onsite days per week at the client’s New Providence, New Jersey location. The position focuses on analyzing consumer, shopper, and market data; assessing data quality; preparing client-facing materials; and developing proficiency with NielsenIQ tools and metrics. The role also encourages ongoing learning and development in technical skills, category expertise, and solution knowledge.
Requirements
- Undergraduate college or university degree; business, marketing, or analytics is a plus.
- Customer or client service experience.
- Strong logic, deductive reasoning, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to synthesize data into insights.
- Attention to detail and ability to independently diagnose errors or issues.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Proactive and self-directed approach, with an ability to anticipate upcoming needs.
- Ability to manage time and a variety of responsibilities effectively.
- Willingness to work onsite two days per week.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a professional services organization applying analyses to resolve business issues and/or consumer packaged goods (CPG) experience; highly preferred.
- Proficiency in the Office suite, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI.
Responsibilities
- Analyze consumer, shopper, and market data to identify trends, opportunities, and risks, and formulate findings into a story.
- Perform quality assessments on large datasets, identify potential errors, and develop solutions to address them.
- Create clear Excel and PowerPoint deliverables, as well as deliverables using NielsenIQ proprietary software solutions, to support client decision-making.
- Work with clients and NIQ senior team members to support client priorities, project delivery, and client satisfaction.
- Develop mastery of NielsenIQ tools and metrics to help address clients’ business questions.
- Seek learning and development opportunities to advance technical skills, deepen category expertise, or expand solution knowledge.
- Design and execute models, analyze results, simulate client plans, create deliverable materials, and support presentation, training, and tool delivery.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare plan, including medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible spending accounts and a Health Savings Account, including company contributions.
- Life and AD&D insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions.
- Disability insurance.
- Tuition reimbursement and education support.
- Discretionary paid time off program and 11 paid holidays.
- Flexible working environment.
- Volunteer time off.
- LinkedIn Learning.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Industry-leading parental leave.
- Potential eligibility for a sales-based incentive or performance-based bonus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
