Data production expert

Our YouGov Shopper team manages panels of around 10,000 families in Austria and Switzerland. These households continuously record their purchases, which allows us to analyze trends in the grocery market.

In an exciting new initiative, we are significantly expanding the panels by focusing on new collection methods. This will enable us to deliver an unprecedented level of detail to FMCG and retail clients.

For our office in Vienna, we are looking for a proactive and motivated Data Production Expert who is ready to take this next step for the panels in Austria and Switzerland with us.

About YouGov Shopper, part of YouGov Group

YouGov is the most quoted market research company in the world. We take pride in our accuracy, and we are trusted by the world’s biggest brands to get it right. YouGov Shopper operates household panels in 18 European countries. We use shopper data to provide strategic advice on purchasing behavior, trends, and developments to various players in the grocery sector.

Key accountabilities:

• Offer support and monitor product classification processes, using automated tools and human expertise to ensure products are assigned to the correct product groups and attributes.
• Review, validate and resolve classification exceptions where automated processes require human intervention.
• Continuously improve data quality standards and data management processes through automation where relevant to enhance recognition and classification accuracy.
• You support in matching the existing purchase database to the newly measured data and vice versa, based on algorithms with manual steps where needed.
• You work closely with a dedicated and dynamic team for this new initiative and will be part of a broader team of data management colleagues internationally.
• You feel confident to work with commercial, technology, and operations stakeholders to keep the project running.

These are the essentials for having an interview:

• You’ve obtained your master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, data analytics or related field, a first professional experience is a plus.
• You combine strong analytical skills with a creative and solution-oriented mindset and strong communication skills.
• You have a keen eye for detail in data handling and working with large datasets.Genuine interest in FMCG and retail, and you are eager to develop expertise in the Austrian and Swiss market.
• You work effortlessly in Excel and are a quick learner to adopt our proprietary software solutions.
• You’re interested in AI-powered tools and are curious to learn how they can support data management and classification processes.
• You are self-driven, proactive, and comfortable taking ownership while collaborating effectively with others.
• You speak German and English fluently (French and / or Italian skills would be a welcome bonus, but not mandatory).

We offer:

• An adventure full of known and unforeseen challenges.
• The opportunity to develop your professional skills and talents and build your career in FMCG and data analytics.
• An exciting work environment that brings people of different nationalities together.
• Flexible working hours (flextime and generous home office possibilities)
• Attractive benefits (free coffee/tea/biscuits, fruit basket, meal allowance, discounts via company arrangements, running events)
• A competitive salary package
• A dynamic team with space to be who you are, built on passion, relevance, trust and smart solutions

Why join YouGov?

Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.

Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.

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