Specialist, Client Development
The NPD Group

Bentonville, Arkansas

Posted in Sales


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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

Be the first of your friends to declare, "I love where I work!" and actually mean it. Have fun and work hard with some of the best and brightest in the market research industry. NPD is one of the leading market research providers in the world. We offer competitive market research and intelligence to our customers and many of the world's largest companies. In addition, NPD offers a career filled with innovation and opportunity to the forward-thinking problem solvers who join our family.

About You:

You're a passionate, dynamic, and highly motivated individual who's looking for an opportunity to have an impact on some of the most well-known companies in the world. This integral member of the commercial team will report directly to NPD's Walmart Director. If you enjoy working with clients to influence their business decisions by digging into the data and finding a story to tell, this job is for you.

The ideal candidate will be competent in managing their time and activities. 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 comfortable presenting actionable and impactful insights to retail merchants.

Position Overview:

The Walmart Business Analyst is part of the onsite Entertainment customer facing team located within Walmart's Home Office. Your position is to work with team members to analyze "fun" within the Entertainment sector and provide omnichannel insights to both Walmart and Walmart.com.

You will have the opportunity to present and influence Walmart merchants and support teams' retail decisions using NPD's POS, Consumer and Receipt assets for data driven growth.

This position is located onsite in Bentonville, Arkansas (rated one of the top 10 places to live in the U.S.)

Overall Responsibilities:

• Bentonville based point person for insights development as requests come from the merchandising, marketing and consumer insights teams at Walmart and Walmart.com.

• Primary support role for the Walmart Account Managers/Director, who are responsible for the customer relationships, by conducting specific data pulls, developing insights from the data, and other analytical support.

• Role not only provides data but successfully packages the data for client delivery and presentation.

• There will be opportunities to present your own findings and insights directly to the client to include Buyers and DMM/VPs.

• May participate in customer training on NPD data tools and in the application and use of POS and Consumer data.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience in data analysis, market research or equivalent.

• Strong POS syndicated data background.

• Strong analytical and data management skills.

• Preferred experience working on customer team supporting merchandising or marketing roles.

• Consumer research knowledge.

• Experience with Longitudinal data preferred.

• Familiar with retail math.

• Manages projects to completion with an eye towards problem solving.

• Self-motivated.

• Strong project planning skills and project management skills.

• Strong in all MS Office products. (Strong Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

• Some travel (less than 15%).

• BA/BS or equivalent. MBA or Strong Internship experience preferred.

• Entertainment (Video Games, Toys, Books, Movies, Technology, and Mobile) experience preferred -or- Be prepared to discuss your top 5 Video Games, Books, and/or Movies and Why?

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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