Senior Project Manager, Consulting

In the highly competitive world of sports, it is critical to use effective media and advertising strategies to communicate offerings to a mass audience.

Nielsen Sports provides essential services to clients, helping them to measure, analyze, and interpret the effectiveness of their advertising and investments, and to make sound economic decisions.

As part of the International Consulting group at Nielsen Sports, you will be working closely with many of the world’s largest sports and entertainment rights holders, brands, agencies and broadcasters across the globe, helping them find right answers to any commercial challenges.

Our projects are wide and varied, spanning commercial strategy, rights package creation and go-to-market strategies, event impact analysis, sponsorship evaluation and ROI modelling and broadcast rights valuation.

In addition to your analytical skills, you'll have excellent problem definition, strategic planning and story lining skills and be able to turn your analysis results into compelling stories that deliver meaningful insights and added value to our clients. You'll work on global projects while also having the ability to collaborate with other teams within Nielsen across the world.

Overall, your role will be essential to ensuring our clients' success in the sports industry. You'll have a unique opportunity to use your expertise in media and project management to make a significant impact on our clients' businesses and contribute to the growth of Nielsen Sports.

Specific Skills & Experience required:

• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English and proven successful experience in a client face role
• 3-5 years experience as a strategy and/or management consultant at a top consulting firm, delivering complex client analytical projects, and managing diverse stakeholders
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office skills, particularly Powerpoint and Excel. Good competence using Business Intelligence tools/platforms, such as PowerBI is a bonus
• Previous experience of using Digital Analytics tools such as Radarly, Social Bakers, Crowdtangle, FanPageKarma etc. is preferrable
• Masters degree or higher in a subject where both extensive written and verbal communication skills and advanced mathematical analytical skills are key
• Strong understanding of the global media and sports ecosystem, how it is measured, and how advertisers, media, platforms and fans interact

Tasks And Responsibilities

• Building trust and long-term relationships with defined clients
• Develop an understanding of our client's challenges and needs, and the solutions that help them achieve their business objectives.
• Being an expert in Nielsen Sports tools and the product portfolio. You'll continuously expand your knowledge of our clients, the sports business landscape, and the media and advertising industry to provide the most effective solutions to our clients.
• Use existing project planning tools, project management and capacity planning tools (Monday.com), to implement and track your own projects. 
• You'll manage simple to medium projects and work under guidance on complex projects, and provide scope, cost calculations, and feasibility checks for simple to medium projects.
• Working closely across all Nielsen Sports and external data sources to build compelling bespoke analysis which directly address the key strategic questions of our clients
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of our services and products by adopting and implementing automation of our processes and services. You'll also be responsible for the profitability of your projects, ensuring that they meet or exceed budget expectations.
• Independently analysing information and presenting to clients with experienced team members. You'll be able to analyse data and turn the results into compelling stories that deliver meaningful insights and added value to our clients.

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