Job Openings:

MVI – Management Ventures, Inc., a WPP company, is a leading research, analysis, retail consulting and training organization. We are looking for exceptionally bright and inquisitive professionals to enhance its growing Knowledge Team. Knowledge Team members track, analyze and evaluate both the strategic and tactical developments of over 900 global retailers and the 130-plus geographies in which they operate for the world’s leading consumer product manufacturers.

MVI is an operating company within WPP Group plc (WPP). WPP is the world’s leading advertising and marketing services company with over 70,000 people working in approximately 110 countries throughout the world. For more information on MVI, its products and services, please visit MVI-Worldwide.com/about, or our licensed site: MVI-Insights.com.

MVI is always looking for researchers, analysts and experienced client development managers. We occasionally have openings for interns and graduate students.

If you are interested in one of these positions, please send your resume with a cover letter to Human Resources: careers@mventures.com

Thank you for your interest in MVI.

Location: Cambridge, MA (just outside of Boston)

ShareGroup Program Coordinator

Retail Analyst

ShareGroup Program Coordinator

MVI Share Groups approach real-time challenges in the CPG world through roundtable discussions and case studies. Participants enjoy unique insights into managing internal and external relationships critical to the overall growth of sales, share, and profitability.

The Share Group Program Coordinator is responsible for meeting execution across all Share Groups, as well as supporting all new product development and targeting activities within the product line. Key goals are:

• Seamless meeting experience for member clients
• Targeted elegant client communication
• Proactive approach towards supplementary product programs

Primary responsibilities include:

• Meeting execution:
• Pre: Logistics liaise with GS/facilitators, arrange client conference calls, meeting & welcome dinner attendance confirmation, and meeting packet creation
• During: Welcome dinner & meeting execution, onsite contact, scribe, and other tasks as needed
• Post: Learnings & Action Items distributed within a week and drafting of Notes & Extract Package
• Support Activities
• Project based client communication
• Online survey construction
• Targeting support documents revision on an ad hoc basis

The successful candidate will possess:

• Highly effective and professional written and verbal communication skills
• Well-developed people and project management skills
• The ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• A highly organized, detail-oriented approach to handling multiple tasks under tight deadlines
• Bachelor’s degree required; concentration in Business Administration preferred; experience in hospitality industry a plus
• 1 to 2 years of prior experience in hospitality, consulting, research, financial or consumer products industries
• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Excellent typing skills needed: must be able to capture conversations in real time

The personal attributes and characteristics for the target candidate are:

• Intelligence: the ability to channel vast amounts of information into concise communication
• See the big picture while being detail-oriented
• Must be comfortable with daily client interaction
• Flexibility: can adapt quickly to changes and is open to new ideas and feedback
• Curiosity: consistently asks good questions and has a strong desire to be continually learning
• Able to apply learning: can take examples and thought processes to apply to different pieces of work
• High energy and enthusiastic: has a positive attitude, can work well with others, and wants to grow within the organization

Retail Analyst

The Retail Analyst performs in-depth analysis of the retailers across the MVI research retail channels – discount, chain drug, value discount, grocery and warehouse clubs - with a focus on the top 30 retailers. The Retail Analyst’s goal is to:

• Develop a well-rounded understanding of the assigned retailer(s).
• Group, analyze, and interpret data and information.
• Draw implications that have meaning and relevance for MVI client companies.
• Deliver actionable analysis for MVI clients in a variety of contexts.

The Analyst’s primary responsibilities include:

• Analysis. Learn and use “MVI Methodology” regarding data standards and preparation. Draw actionable insights, conclusions and implications based on relevant trends and data. Perform primary and secondary research for more in-depth analysis.
• Training material production. Organize information and analysis into relevant and sensible groups for use in MVI’s client training classes.
• Article and news creation. Write monthly articles for MVI publications and produce regular Breaking News content for the MVI website.
• Client management. Respond to client requests, delivering useful insight and supporting existing relationships with client companies.

The target candidate will possess these requirements:

• Highly effective and professional written and verbal communication skills.
• Significant qualitative and quantitative research and analysis experience.
• Well-developed people and project management skills.
• The ability to work independently, as well as part of a team.
• A highly organized, detail-oriented approach to handling multiple tasks under tight deadlines.
• A bachelor’s degree or higher.
• 2 to 5 years of prior analysis experience in the consulting, research, financial or consumer products industries.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Microsoft Access knowledge preferred.

The personal attributes and characteristics for the target candidate are:

• Intelligence—the ability to comprehend different types of quantitative and qualitative data, be able to marry various types of data to come to interesting conclusions, and can see the big picture while being detail-oriented.
• Flexibility—can adapt quickly to changes and is open to new ideas and feedback.
• Intellectually Flexible and Resourceful—has the ability to take different kinds of disparate data from multiple sources and synthesize / triangulate the data into meaningful insights; can resourcefully try different angles or hypotheses when reaching an analytical dead end.
• Curiosity—consistently asks good questions and has a strong desire to continually be learning.
• Able to apply learning—can take examples and thought processes to apply to different pieces of work.
• High energy and enthusiastic—has a positive “can do” attitude, can work well with others, and is a leader within the organization.