Group Director, Growth Analytics

Responsibilities

External facing responsibilities:

• Consulting with clients to identify business problems / opportunities and develop practical analytics roadmaps to make measurable impact on business outcomes.
• Lead the consumer segmentation and audience identification processes.
• Become a trusted advisor to client leads and senior clients and consult on audience strategy, measurement, and advanced analytics
• Share POVs regarding industry changes in the data and analytics space (future of measurement, new data solutions like clean rooms, attention measurement, etc.)
• Leading the development and execution of the measurement plan and revisiting the plan on an ongoing basis to revise it based on your most recent learnings.
• Distilling complex concepts and analytic solutions into a compelling data story with actionable conclusions to support decision making.
• Identifying growth opportunities at the brand and portfolio level innovation and the adoption of new analytics technologies.
• Investigating the impact of new data sources and technologies on the future of marketing and the vertical our brands are operating.
• Providing ad hoc support to the clients to solve broad strategic marketing problems.
• Leading and mentoring direct reports: Continually assess capabilities, provide a roadmap for career growth and institute goals to build / expand skills.

Internal facing responsibilities:

• Partner with the Planning and Investment teams on annual budget setting, media plan development and ongoing budget / plan optimization.
• Lead and mentor direct reports: continually assess capabilities, provide a roadmap for career growth and institute goals to build / expand skills.
• Keep in front of industry trends and developments by conducting research, engaging in training and attending industry events.

Required Skills

• Industry Knowledge in marketing analytics and data (1st and 3rd party data solutions, data lakes, data clean rooms, aggregated and user level data).
• Experience in integrated marketing related to media and/or customer journey development, including budgeting, revenue forecasting, ROI development.
• Expertise in audience-based marketing and data-driven advertising.
• Solution development: analytic skills, critical thinking and clarifying strategic & operational issues as relates to data and analytics. Problem-solving skills to drive issues to resolution.
• Proven leadership ability and strong, impactful client relationship experience.
• Stellar communication and presentation skills: we need someone who is articulate, engaging and straightforward – and, above all, can effectively and convincingly translate unstructured business solutions into innovative customer marketing programs.
• Ability to train and coach colleagues for growth: being organized and detail-oriented, prioritizing work, business writing & presenting, conducting analysis, and project management (scope, budgeting, timing).

Education and Experience

• A university degree and 11+ years of data and analytics experience in advertising, management consulting, marketing or digital consulting
• Knowledge of agency-side media campaign planning and execution process is desirable, but not required