Director, Analytics

  • Full-time

Company Description

Dentsu International is a modern marketing solutions company. Our mission is to help clients navigate, progress, and thrive in a world of change. Businesses rely on our integrated network of agencies and specialized practices to champion meaningful progress through creative, media, commerce, data, and technology. Part of Dentsu Group, our global network comprises 66,000 diverse people in 143 countries, who are dedicated to teaming for growth and good. Some of our award-winning agencies include 360i, Carat, dentsumcgarrybowen, DEG, dentsuX, iProspect and Merkle. Follow us on Twitter @DentsuUSA and visit dentsu.com/us.

Job Description

As the Director, Analytics, you will build and lead a cross-disciplinary team consisting of data scientists, engineers, analysts, and marketing technology specialists that specialize in turning data into actionable insight.

As the senior-most point-of-contact for analytics on your client(s), you will partner with the media and account leads to set strategy, develop measurement frameworks, create a learning agenda, provide thought leadership, and deliver ongoing guidance to both internal and external stakeholders.

The ideal candidate is both data savvy and a great communicator. Collaboration is at the core of our business success and the Director, Analytics will need to create a tightknit and dynamic relationship with our clients and the Media and Account teams, in addition to building a cross-disciplinary Analytics team across Data Science, Engineering, MarTech, and Data Visualization/Reporting.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the integration of all analytics disciplines in service of client business outcomes
  • Act as the senior-most point-of-contact for analytics, adapting to business challenges with agility and direction
  • Partner with media & account leads to develop learning agenda, analytics deliverable schedule, measurement frameworks, thought leadership, and ad hoc deliverables if necessary
  • Advise client on how best to apply econometric modeling or statistical testing of their media directly to their media planning & business efforts
  • Steward development and ongoing management of our unified data infrastructure, directing engineers to deploy data sources and architecture that can be leveraged to answer ongoing and ad hoc client questions
  • Mentor and develop skill-set of analytics team
  • Participate in agency development efforts for analytics, including new and organic business pitches

Qualifications

  • Experienced: 7+ years relevant Media or Analytics experience to be considered
  • Communicator: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to convey and package technical findings in simple terms
  • Management & Leadership: Strong organizational skills, political instincts, and proven-leadership ability
  • Media Expert: Possesses understanding of digital planning and buying, with a focus on standard media metrics
  • MarTech Knowledge: Demonstrates understanding of digital tagging, tracking, QA, and maintenance across mobile, social, & tablet and their advantages/limitations
  • Project Management: Experience in a Product Management role or Scrum/Agile frameworks a plus
  • Data Storyteller: Experience with Data Visualization software and dashboard building (e.g., Datorama, Tableau, PowerBI)
  • Tidy Data & Databases: Expertise in relational databases and a requisite programming language (e.g., SQL, R, or Python) to work with them and lead the training of junior employees
  • The Basics: Proficiency in PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel is required
  • Statistics & Math: Working knowledge of statistical testing & regression a plus

Additional Information

Employees from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds encouraged to apply.
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