Consultant

The salary range for this job will be $88,000 - $121,000 / year + Bonus

As a Consultant (Consumer Insights) professional with Numerator Insights, you’ll be a vital member of Numerator focusing on a core set of clients and ad-hoc projects.

Your responsibility is to serve as the day to day point of contact, engagement lead, and project manager for Numerator’s Fortune 100 and fast-growing strategic customers that span CPG, Retail, Electronics, Durables, and Quick-Serve Restaurants.

Your goal will be to serve as a trusted adviser with your client including looking for additional opportunities as well as an annual business review of accomplishments.

Interface directly with clients’ consumer insights, shopper insights, category management, brand management, and field teams, supporting their most pressing business questions and challenges

Regularly leverage Numerator’s consumer panel and survey data to deliver analytic insights and data-driven stories that address Numerator’s strategic customers goal of driving increased sales and improved marketing effectiveness

Together with supporting client services team members, drive your assigned client(s) engagement and utilization of contracted resources (consulting hours, platform access, survey credits, and custom projects) to maximize return on investment, build success stories that help drive business results, and provide- an opportunity to expand relationships beyond existing parameters

Work with clients and Numerator’s product team in developing, prototyping and piloting new solutions and enhanced capabilities.

Bring the voice of customers back to the greater Numerator organization to help drive the growth of the business

Possess a deep understanding of Numerator solutions and services including key differentiators versus legacy approaches and competing offerings

Support sales efforts by participating throughout sales cycles and presentations as a subject matter expert and Numerator solutions guru, including occasional product demonstrations

Generate thought leadership content for clients, from webinars, and training materials, to blog posts and industry presentations

Based in Minneapolis, MN with ability to travel, as required, to support the above responsibilities

Skilled at building and managing customer relationships, including stakeholder management

Comfort proactively diving into the data to find the right data points to answer business questions and create compelling stories for clients

Project management skills are key to success in this position

Strong MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills a must; additional skills / experience with Python, and SQL are a plus but not required

Knowledge of competitive product offerings including, but not limited to Retail Loyalty Card systems (Dunnhumby, 8451), National Consumer Panel (NCP), Nielsen, Circana, Ibotta, Catalina, or 1010 Data

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Strong presentation skills, with experience presenting directly to clients and prospects with varying levels of experience from analyst to executive leadership

CPG and Retailer knowledge, including knowledge of consumer and category insights. Must be able to speak the language at a granular level of detail, understand their key strategic initiatives and how consumer data can be leveraged to achieve their goals

Deep understanding of both syndicated and household panel data (Nielsen / Circana and / or retail POS and loyalty data)

Experience Required

Bachelor’s Degree (required) or Master’s Degree (preferred) with 3+ years relevant experience

CPG experience in Brand Marketing, Market Research, Category Management and / or Shopper & Consumer Insights roles or experience, and / or as a service provider to these functions

Experience in consulting, product, sales support, and / or service delivery function in relevant software industry (e.g. Nielsen, Circana, etc.) is ideal

Working knowledge of enterprise software applications and services designed for the retail and consumer goods industries is highly valued (e.

g., Nielsen, Circana, Dunnhumby)

Experience as a power user of Microsoft Excel and Business Intelligence software such as Tableau, Business Objects, etc.

What we offer you

An inclusive and collaborative company culture

An opportunity to have an impact on our growing teams and organization

Ownership of platforms and environments with industry leading product

Market competitive total compensation package

Volunteer time off and charitable donation matching

Strong support for career growth, including mentorship programs, leadership training, access to employee resources groups

Regular hackathons to build your own projects and work with people across the entire company

Great benefits package including medical / vision / dental insurance, unlimited PTO, and 401k plus matching

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