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CGA – a NIQ company - Global food & drink consultancy for out of home leisure

Do you have a passion for food and drink?  Ever wonder what makes a brand successful? Or what drives consumer drinking habits when they go out to pubs, bars & restaurants?

About CGA

At CGA we work with the biggest and most renowned food and drink businesses and most iconic brands, to help them understand the drivers of their performance as well as the consumer and market dynamics at play.

As the definitive source of integrated consumer insight and market measurement we inform strategies for our client’s growth. With offices in the UK and the USA, it is our vision to be the world’s leading business intelligence and strategic consultancy provider for the out of home leisure market.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK.

Job Description

About the role

  • Join a motivated and collaborative team.
  • Be part of the exciting journey to transform our panel measurement business.
  • Engage with an international team in a flexible working environment.
  • Be in the heart of design and build of our models, applying a range of data science techniques and specialised programming languages
  • Evaluate the outcomes and performance of the data science models and identify areas of improvement
  • Develop data data hypotheses, and methods and evaluate analytics models
  • Advise  on effectiveness of the specific techniques based on project finding s and comprehensive research
  • Contribute to the development, evaluation, monitoring, and deployment of data science solutions
  • Report and present on model performance and project progress.

Qualifications

  • You are a great fit to our team if you have knowledge of consumer behaviour, panel based projections, and consumer metrics and analytics, and experience working with (un-)managed crowdsourced panels and developing strategies for improving panel engagement.
  • Excellent statistical and logic skills. Experience in data cleaning, outlier validation, sampling, bias reduction, indirect estimation, and data and aggregation techniques
  • Strong aptitude for data analysis. Ability to manipulate, analyse interpret large data sources
  • Domain expert in at least one area: Demography, Sampling, Statistics Modelling, and  Research Practices.

  • Eager to continuously learn and adopt evolving technologies and tools

What we can offer

  • It’s an exciting time in the Consumer Panel UK team at NielsenIQ, with a global investment commitment in ‘Consumer’ fully underway and our UK business in strong growth.
  • Attractive package
  • Being a part of dynamic team with great exposure to international clients


Additional Information

Our Benefits

  • Flexible working environment
  • Volunteer time off
  • LinkedIn Learning
  • Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

For more information, visit NIQ.com

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Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/news-center/diversity-inclusion

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