Director, Audience Activation

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$117K/yr – $150K/yrDirector/Executive5+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the revenue engine for audience activation by turning MRI‑Simmons data into client wins, balancing deal terms with internal partners, and nurturing agency and brand relationships to drive utilization.

  • Build and close data‑driven audience activation opportunities across agencies and brands.
  • Coordinate cross‑functional input from Commercial, Marketing and Product to align solutions with client activation goals.
  • Own the end‑to‑end sales cycle from strategy through contracts, with travel to agencies as needed.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Identify, develop, drive new business and upsell existing opportunities focused on audience activation, enrichment and data enablement.
  • Manage end‑to‑end customer engagement, including strategy, discussions, proposal and presentations development, negotiation, and contracts where necessary
  • Own commercial discussions and manage deal terms and conditions in partnership with internal stakeholders to ensure audiences meet customer needs to drive utilizations
  • Leverage strong, preferably existing, industry relationships across advertising and media agencies, and at times brands, and ad tech partners, with a strong focus on stakeholders in programmatic, digital, video, investment, and account teams
  • Lead advanced advertising, audience activation, and other data‑driven proposals and presentations that clearly articulate the value of MRI‑Simmons audience intelligence
  • Act as a trusted advisor to customers by aligning MRI‑Simmons audience solutions to customer business, media, and campaign activation objectives
  • Requires approximately 25% travel; in‑agency presence expected.
  • Partner closely with Commercial, Marketing, Operations and Product teams to provide client feedback and input that informs audience development and utilization prioritization
  • Support the development of new data enablement and activation initiatives, partnerships, and go‑to‑market strategies
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for advanced advertising and audience‑based activation, use cases, both external with customers and internal guiding sales colleagues on cross‑team opportunities
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NielsenIQ

NielsenIQ (NIQ) is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. NIQ combined with GfK in 2023, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. Today NIQ has operations in 95+ countries representing 97% of the world’s GDP. 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 ViewTM.

Founded in 1923
Chicago, Illinois, USA
28K employees (1,168 in marketing)

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25.6%
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48.2%
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Current headcount: ~28.3K

Marketing Team

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