.Western Europe Retail Partnerships and Project Manager Full-time Career Site Team: Strategic Planning/Corporate Development About this role NielsenIQ's Sales Above Market team is focused on growing business revenue, finding new business opportunities, and market penetration. Sales is NielsenIQ's growth engine which is instrumental for the company's success. The Retail Partnership leader role is a strategic above market role, to steer all data partnership propositions, partnership, and data quality programs within the region, reporting to the Western Europe Retail Leader, and a WE retail leadership team member. It is a critical role as it will have a direct impact on retail cooperation, working with all retail market/cluster leaders and facilitating retail cooperation excellence for WE. Key Responsibilities Design, review, and develop retail value propositions for partnership cooperation, both with food, near food, and Tech & Durable retailers. Work with market retail leaders and teams on all proposal reviews and design best practices across the region. Lead strategic coverage enhancement projects for the region, such as retail measurement activities launch in a market, or channel setup. Drive data quality per Retailer segmentation and improvements to higher tiers (Silver, Gold, Platinum) for all existing and new cooperation. Identify opportunities for Key Account data, daily/weekly, and loyalty opportunities. Drive full tech support including data flow, ERP, and API-based readiness early during recruitment pitches to ensure smooth data transfer setup with end-to-end timeline speed. Oversee total recruitment initiatives with retail market leaders, bring strong cadence for recruitment initiatives and ensure key missing retailer recruitment (critical retailers, panel health, etc. per distribution/channels such as Click & Mortars, Brick & Mortar, Marketplace/Pure Player, Marketplace sellers, ERP & underlapping retailers). Steer software houses and long-tail ERP companies for specific recruitments. Engage with individual markets on a regular cadence for updates, discussions, and support. Provide monthly summaries of recruitment updates to the region. Coordinate with regional ops PMO on Panel Health expected recruitment. Fast data delivery - Ensuring that retailers provide faster data. Monthly calls with markets to ensure that progress is made to achieve faster frequency targets from all markets in WE. Frequency includes Weekly and Daily data delivery. Each has its own trackers which are updated on a monthly basis. Work with global to ensure that improvements are recognized in a timely manner. Constantly check Raw Data Library on progress and pipeline. Best Data / DQI compliance - Review global data quality dashboard to check opportunities in recognizing new retailers to be uplifted to Platinum/Gold/Silver (retailer partnership pyramid tier)
