Global Product Management - Director, Strategic Market Assessment
The NPD Group

Port Washington North, New York

Posted in Sales


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Learn and work on meaningful initiatives with some of the best and brightest in the market research industry. The NPD Group provides the world's most successful brands with leading market research, combining consumer and retail point-of-sale data with analytic solutions to interpret today's market trends while anticipating tomorrow's. In addition, we offer a career filled with innovation and growth to the forward-thinking problem solvers who join our team.

Position Overview

The recently created Strategic Services and Innovation team serves as a center of excellence supporting NPD Group product teams for the new product development process as well as for strategic commercial aspects of product management such as pricing, packaging, and go-to-market.

This new role will report directly to the SVP of Strategic Services and Innovation. In this exciting role, you will be responsible for leading methodical inquiry into new markets and new product opportunities for NPD. This will be a hands-on role requiring you to perform market analysis, opportunity assessments, product positioning exercises, and development of reports and presentations based on inputs and cooperation with multiple global commercial and product teams.

As the Director of Strategic Market Assessment you will also act as the Product Management leader on selected early stage initiatives, taking validated ideas through early phases of market research, ideation, prototyping, and market validation.

You will work collaboratively with several partners, including our Executive Director of Customer Experience and User Research, our Innovation Lab, and our competitive research team to produce reports and business cases supporting new product investment, partnerships, and product expansion strategies.

The ideal candidate will bring both a consulting framework and innovation process approach to the role, and be passionate about delving into every aspect of the business, seeking to understand the dynamics and business drivers, the market, industry, its competitors, and customers in order to be a thought leader who identifies new opportunities for the Company. The candidate should also be passionate about market research, data and insights. Familiarity with the consumer market research industry and / or data-driven products is highly desired.

This position is based in the New York area

Responsibilities:

  • Support a formal process of new investment assessment and prioritization.
  • Research market opportunities and provide opportunity overviews.
  • Act as the product management lead for our new product development process for new opportunities that are outside existing market spaces.
  • Work closely with other product team members to educate them on strategic approaches to market assessment and guide and support their early research processes.
  • Develop ROI analyses and produce business cases for investment.
  • Lead high-impact strategic projects as necessary.
  • Work with cross-functional team members for collaboration and cross pollination.


Qualifications:
  • MBA or equivalent formal business/market analysis training required.
  • Experience leading product innovation, either in house or through an external consulting firm.
  • Internal or external management consulting experience highly desired.
  • Experience in the consumer research and data industry, ideally through exposure to companies such as NPD.
  • Possess solid financial analysis and modeling skills.
  • Product management, product marketing and new product development experience highly desired.
  • Demonstrable aptitude for business development and partnership outreach.
  • Must have a strong aptitude for data.
  • Able to develop engaging and impactful presentations that deliver strategic insight, tell a compelling story, and persuade an executive audience.
  • Passionately curious, lifelong learner.
  • Global experience is a plus.


The NPD Group, Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.


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