Analyst, Advanced Insights
The NPD Group

Job Info

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Become a part of our diverse team

NPD is an inclusive and innovative work environment where you can learn and work on meaningful initiatives with some of the best and brightest in the market research industry. The NPD Group provides the world's most successful brands with leading market research, combining consumer and retail point-of-sale data with analytic solutions to interpret today's market trends while anticipating tomorrow's.

Position Overview

This is an entry-level, client-visible role in the Advanced Insights team within NPD's Analytics group. It can include a mix of data preparation, modeling, project management, reporting, and recommendation and presentation development.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Work with our client-facing teams to understand client needs, the project plan, and provide input to refine as needed; use the project plan to guide your work throughout the project
• Participate in situation assessment and story development activities for your projects
• Execute data preparation, reporting, results interpretation, and presentation development activities as inputs into final client recommendations; modeling and model review as required
• Ensure timely delivery of personal and client deliverables
• Consistently deliver error-free work
• Give input on ways to make our work more efficient and have greater client impact
• Learn additional methods and new approaches in our core product areas
• Stay informed on industry and academic developments in your field
• Help train client development and business development teams on commercially relevant elements of our methodologies
• Contribute to workload tracking and workload coverage activities across the Advanced Insights team in North America
• Give feedback to co-workers on what works well and what does not work well, to help drive continual improvement in our ways of working

Other Skills and Requirements:

• Curiosity and willingness to learn
• Interest in helping others succeed, teamwork
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems using data
• Collaborative work style
• Continuous learner, expanding current skillset as well as new technologies identified by the business
• Strong working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint is essential
• Familiarity with basic concepts of marketing required; working knowledge of one or more of our core analytic portfolio areas preferred (pricing, test/control, forecasting, segmentation)
• Some experience in analytics strongly preferred (including internships or class-based project work)
• Experience writing programs or scripts in SQL, Python, R preferred. SAS a plus
• Working knowledge of the following statistical techniques is a plus: linear regression, logistic regression, discriminant analysis, mixed model, model selection, k-means and hierarchical clustering, decision trees
• Experience working with large, structured data sets preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort with public speaking required; experience presenting to groups preferred
• Strong time management skills
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities effectively
• Bachelor's degree required in quantitative fields such as, but not limited to economics, statistics, marketing, psychology, political science, or mathematics.

The NPD Group, L.P. 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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