Job Summary
The Media Solutions Consultant for the MENAPI (MENA, Pakistan and India) region is crucial in driving and supporting the continued growth of our international media portfolio. This role will focus on maintaining and expanding the current client base, providing expert media evaluation solutions, and ensuring timely delivery of insights to key clients. The position requires a proactive and highly skilled individual who can build strong client relationships, communicate effectively, deliver actionable insights, and contribute to revenue generation in the region.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement tailored media evaluation solutions for MENAPI clients, ensuring insights and metrics reflect client objectives
- Serve as a subject matter media solutions expert, interpreting data analysis for clients and providing strong media consultative recommendations and insights based on a deep understanding of the client, sport, and regional landscape
- Maintain and strengthen relationships with key regional clients ensuring high levels of client satisfaction and retention
- Collaborate with the sales team to align projects with client needs, delivering actionable insights that enhance client satisfaction and engagement
- Support sales teams in pitching media solutions, attracting new business, and retaining key clients
- Ensure the integrity and quality of our products, solutions, and methodologies, as well as promoting the international adoption of industry standards
- Become an expert on the sports media landscape, including audience targeting, brand exposure, media buying and selling
- Support the business with solution design, client pitches, and act as a "Media Expert" within the wider business landscape.
- Lead client presentations online or in person where possible
- Work with the Global Delivery Team to ensure efficient data delivery, minimize manual reporting, enhance data visualization, and create compelling insights that drive further engagement and revenue
- Identify opportunities to improve data visualization using existing tools and contribute to the development of new solutions
- Aid in creating insights and narratives that can lead to further potential work and revenue from clients, especially at key times in the calendar.
Qualifications & Key Competencies
- Minimum 3-5 years experience of working within the sports marketing, media or research industry. Experience of working with data and insights preferable
- Proven project management experience in coordinating complex projects
- Strong client relationship management skills, with experience of maintaining and nurturing client accounts and relationships
- Knowledge of, and interest in, the sports sponsorship and media industry with a good understanding of the MENAPI sports and media landscape
- Highly data literate, with a focus on innovating the presentation of data to support strategic decision-making
- Proactive in identifying and pursuing new client insights, enriching client deliverables, and supporting revenue growth
- Self-starter with excellent communication, presentation and time management skills
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office suite; Excel and PowerPoint experience required
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
About Nielsen Sports
Committed to delivering powerful data-driven insights and services, Nielsen Sports works in collaboration with the world's top leagues, teams and brands to deliver the most comprehensive, trusted and meaningful insights and analysis across the world of sport and entertainment to help support decision making. Nielsen Sports is a trusted adviser and partner in sports and entertainment strategy, helping our clients worldwide to maximize their commercial success and understand their fan base. Our projects are wide and varied, spanning commercial strategy, rights package creation and go-to-market strategies, sponsorship evaluation and ROI modelling and broadcast rights valuation. Our client list includes a broad range of international and domestic rights holders as well as major brands from sectors such as FMCG, luxury goods, travel, crypto, banking and financial services.
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