Analytics Associate Director

Title: Analytics Associate Director

Discipline: Analytics

About Essence

Essence, part of GroupM, is a global data and measurement-driven media agency whose mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. Clients include Google, Flipkart, NBCUniversal, L’Oreal and the Financial Times. The agency is more than 1,800 people strong, manages $4B in annualized media spend and deploys campaigns in 106 markets via 20 offices in APAC, EMEA and North America.

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About the role

Accountable for quantifying and measuring the success of our executions and for delivering insights that enable us to innovate the work we deliver at Essence. Leading multi products projects, developing best practice, being the main point of contact for other teams.

Some of the things we’d like you to do

• Build a deep understanding of marketing plans and their objectives to help account teams build comprehensive measurement, and test & learn plans
• Play an instrumental role in evolving and designing new, innovative measurement tools. Managing the process through to delivery and take ownership of global roll out
• Recruit, manage and mentor analytical resource, ensuring the efficient flow of work through the team, the timely delivery of high-quality outputs and their continuing development as professionals
• Lead the creation of clear, robust and thought-provoking campaign reviews and insights
• Work with Account teams to help define the correct questions to get under the skin of campaign performance and then interrogate data sources to deliver the answers
• To help deliver “best in class” analytical capabilities across the agency with the wider Analytics team, including the use of new methods, techniques, tools and systems
• Develop innovative marketing campaigns and assist clients to define objectives

A bit about yourself

• Degree from a top-tier university, minimum 2:1 (preferably numerical)
• Experience working in a data based role
• Experience managing a team and ability to delegate effectively
• Proficiency with systems such as SQL, Social Analytics tools (Crimson Hexagon), Python, and ‘R’
• Expose to measurement of both Direct Response and Brand Awareness campaigns
• Excellent at presenting data in a visually engaging and insightful manner that cuts through the noise
• Strong organisational and project management skills
• Strong understanding of what data points can be collected and analysed in a digital campaign, and how each data point should be analysed
• Established and professional communication, presentation, and motivational skills

What you can expect from Essence

Essence’s mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. We do this by employing the world’s very best talent to solve some of the toughest challenges of today’s digital marketing landscape. It’s important that we hire people whose values reflect those of our own: genuine, results-focused, daring and insightful. As an Essence employee, we promise you a workplace that invests in your career, cares for you and is fun and engaging. We believe these factors create a workplace where you can be yourself and do amazing work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or marital status.

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