Executive Director, Business Analytics

The Business Analytics team is pivotal in the delivery of modern agency services. We are tightly integrated with planning and investment teams to deliver on and exceed our clients’ business goals.

Responsibilities

External facing

: Set the vision, strategy and roadmap to deliver bleeding-edge marketing sciences solutions on your portfolio of clients. Defining and executing the data strategy: Uncover data needs/opportunities and develop a practical roadmap to get maximum value from 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd party data through integration and augmentation. Develop relationships with clients by providing strategic advisory on how data and analytics can help unlock strategic opportunities.

Encourage creative use of data to solve client’s business challenges and support client’s growth, in close alignment with Planning and Investment teams. Provide thought leadership around analytics, research, measurement, and ad-technology concepts / methods / tools. Develop best in class audience solutions, in collaboration with Planning and Investment teams.

Become a trusted advisor to client leads and senior clients and consult on audience strategy, measurement, and advanced analytics. Partner with the Planning and Investment teams on annual budget setting, media plan development and ongoing budget / plan optimization. ).

Investigate the impact of new data sources and technologies on the future of marketing and the vertical our brands are operating. Lead and mentor direct reports: Continually assess capabilities, provide a roadmap for career growth and institute goals to build and expand skills.

: Provide methodological support, coaching, training and advice to your direct reports and to the broader teams. Recruit new talent. Lead the development of playbooks for audience and measurement activities to help standardize the delivery of high-quality marketing sciences services across the agency.

Build the pipeline and be responsible for the revenue goals of Marketing Sciences. Actively help to develop and grow Marketing Sciences offerings by contributing to POVs and exchanging knowledge with colleagues at Annalect and in the broader OMG network. 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 (1 st and 3 rd 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.