Delivery Team Leader - Media Evaluation

In the highly competitive world of sports, it's critical to use effective media and advertising strategies to communicate offerings to a mass audience. Nielsen Sports provides essential services to clients, helping them to measure, analyse, and interpret the effectiveness of their advertising and investments, and to 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 to identify areas for improvement. You'll work closely with International colleagues to understand specific clients needs and requirements and use this information to create detailed analyses, combining data from different sources in the Nielsen Sports product portfolio.

In addition to your leadership and analytical skills, you'll have excellent communication and presentation skills, and be able to turn your analysis results into compelling stories that deliver meaningful insights and added value to our clients. You'll also have the ability to collaborate with other teams within Nielsen across the world.

Key skills and competencies for this role include proven people leadership experience, having an analytical mindset, identifying client needs, being knowledgeable in media and sponsorship, good time management and prioritization skills, and excellent communication skills to present recommendations to different audiences. You'll also need to maintain an internal and external network, coordinate ongoing client projects, and continually expand your knowledge of client business issues and needs, Nielsen Sports products, and the media and advertising industry.

Furthermore, you should be digitally literate, and a driver of automation and standardised, repeatable business processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness. With your help, we can support our clients in achieving their business growth goals, and deliver high-quality services that exceed their expectations.

Leading a team of 10-20 project managers who are delivering outputs to client all over the world. You will be client-facing as well as liaising between Sales and Operations colleagues, managing complex client projects and internally coordinating with diverse media services to deliver clients solutions

Specific Skills & Experience required:

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  Proven successful people leadership of teams of similar size in the media analytics industry

• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English and proven successful experience in a client facing role for at least three years

• Proven successful experience as a project manager, delivering complex client analytical projects, using project management platforms and managing diverse stakeholders. Ability to coach your team in this skillset.

• High level of competence using Business Intelligence tools/platforms, especially Microsoft’s PowerBI

• Multiple years experience using Python and SQL to extract and manipulate data from a variety of sources. Ability to coach your team in this skillset

• Masters 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 And Responsibilities

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  Leading your team to drive great client satisfaction and employee engagement

• Building 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.

• Being an expert in Nielsen Sports tools and the product portfolio. You'll 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 projects across the team.

• You'll manage complex projects directly and provide guidance to your team members on simpler projects, and provide scope, cost calculations, and feasibility checks as required.

• Working closely with all media operations teams at Nielsen Sports, relaying information to the appropriate team to align client projects and meet service-level agreements. You'll also collaborate on projects with other Solutions groups, where applicable.

• Contributing to the continuous improvement of our services and products by adopting and implementing automation of our processes and services. You'll also be responsible for the profitability of your projects, ensuring that they meet or exceed budget expectations.

• Independently analysing information and presenting to clients with experienced team members. You'll be able to analyse data and turn the results into compelling stories that deliver meaningful insights and added value to our clients.

Overall, your role will be essential to ensuring our clients' success in the sports industry. You'll have a unique opportunity to use your expertise in media and project management to make a significant impact on our clients' businesses and contribute to the growth of Nielsen Sports.

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