Two non-Black colleagues took director roles she says she never knew were open
A new boss, two promotions she says she never saw posted, and a layoff tied to a 3-year non-compete. A Nielsen procurement manager is suing.
Pascale Jean spent more than six years at Nielsen. According to a complaint filed in federal court in Chicago on May 8, she ended that run as the only Black employee in the company's Procurement Department - and then watched two non-Black colleagues land director-level roles she says she was never told were open.
Jean, a former Senior Procurement Manager in the Software category, is suing The Nielsen Company (US), LLC under Title VII and Section 1981. She alleges race, color, and gender discrimination, along with retaliation.
She joined Nielsen in March 2018. The complaint says she was never placed on a performance improvement plan, never formally disciplined, and generated documented cost savings "in the hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars."
According to the filing, the trouble started in April 2024, when Adnan Rizvi took over as Chief Procurement Officer. Jean alleges Rizvi steadily pushed her out of meetings in her own category - including in-person sessions in New York on Oracle and EIT - and sent her counterpart, Laura Aparicio, instead. Aparicio covered Telecom & Infrastructure, a different patch. Jean says other employees, including someone from Nielsen's legal department, started copying Aparicio on Software matters routed to her.
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