Work closely with the Data Strategy team & regional Product Leads to understand product road map and ensure vendor sourcing plans are in sync
Work with Data Strategy Team & regional Product Leads on channel level plans and ensure alignment on targeted # of stores & channel types for the country’s vendor needs
Creating sourcing plan on country and channel type level
Ongoing lead generation of POS providers, Data Aggregators, Promo companies & other eData providers through- RES, desk research, referrals, networking
Establish contact with the right person within these companies with data partnership decision making powers
Pitch NIQ eData vision and plans, initiate further discussions with these companies
Ensuring legal documentation is in place to enable further discussions (NDA)
Facilitate further discussions with vendor through stages of :
establishing store count estimates,
ensuring testing data are received in a proper format
providing feedback to the vendor based on the test data