Director, Methodology
The NPD Group

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Learning and growing with NPD

Combining consumer surveys, retail point-of-sale data, and cutting-edge analytics, The NPD Group delivers trusted retail industry research to the world's most successful brands and retailers. We also offer careers that reward innovation and provide growth opportunities for forward-thinking problem-solvers who join our team. Speed your career growth, while working with the best and brightest in the market research industry.

Position Overview

NPD's Research Science Group works to ensure that NPD's market information is of the highest quality; in particular, that it is reliable, accurate, and complete. We design and monitor the systems that ensure quality outcomes through use of approaches such as:
• Missing data imputation
• Multi-level modeling
• Selection bias modeling
• Small area estimation
• Automatic categorization of purchase records
• Forecasting of future trends
• The demographic balance of questionnaire responses via sampling Post hoc adjustment (i.e., raking)

This position exists within the Methodology team, a core function in Research Science that is responsible

Responsibilities
Use R, SAS, SPSS, SQL, and/or Excel to:
• Design methodological enhancements to NPD processes
• Carry out tests of alternative implementations of these enhancements
• Conduct basic research that draws on existing NPD data to study different aspects of consumer reporting performance and POS data coverage
• Apply multivariate and machine learning techniques to the above problems
• Promote consistency in implementation of designed enhancements across different businesses
• Maintain relationships with Research Science client teams to understand what is working well with NPD methodology and what could be improved
• Communicate results and procedures to internal clients

Qualifications
• 8-10 years of experience in statistical programming in R, SPSS, and/or SAS
• Advanced statistical techniques (including those mentioned above)
• Knowledge of SQL queries preferred (either SAS Proc SQL or another SQL implementation)
• Advanced graduate degree, with quantitative experience
• Excellent project management, time management, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate ideas and analysis results effectively both verbally and in writing to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work well on a team as well as independently
• Proficient in MS Office (MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)

• Communication
o The ideal candidate must be able to conduct engaging and impactful presentations that deliver value to the client while telling a compelling story in a concise and polished manner to a diverse audience. The candidate also must demonstrate the ability to listen to the client or stakeholder (internal or external) and appropriately match their needs with NPD's products and services, directing all parties to the best solution.

• Relationships
o The ideal candidate must be comfortable and effective when talking with a broad range of decision influencers and decision makers within an organization. The candidate will be able to effectively understand and build relationships across the organizations and teams.

• Discipline
o The ideal candidate will be competent in managing their time and activities and must embrace our proven opportunity and customer management processes and systems. Candidates must possess a "can-do" perspective in their professional attitude. They will be detail oriented and demonstrate a strong work ethic. They will be sticklers for accuracy in their own work as well as their colleagues. They will be ready to substantiate their assertions with facts.

The NPD Group, Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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