Associate Director

Position Summary

Your role is to assist with and be a key analytics POC. This entails building, scaling and elevating a holistic approach to campaign execution and measurement across all channels, and helping to guide the team managing all deliverables for the client.

Responsibilities

• Development of client-specific measurement plans
• Manage the outputs of day-to-day requirements and workflow of the client as it relates to analytics
• Responsible for presentation to client, with support from your team, with focus on recommendations and actionable insights
• Keep client apprised of emerging measurement methodologies such as digital optimization and cross channel attribution.
• Help guide junior members on story-board/narrative to provide rich insights
• Proactively collaborate internally across Initiative crafts to ensure a data-oriented approach to Strategy, Communications Design and Partnerships.
• Work with Client Advice & Management to identify opportunities to better support client needs

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in marketing or digital analytics, primarily website performance
• Strong knowledge of digital marketing technologies, including ad servers, site-traffic partners, ad verification, etc.
• Strong understanding of paid media landscape and being able to articulate a clear POV of how different media channels can be used effectively to tell a data-oriented story
• Ability to communicate complex concepts at varying levels (from superficial to detailed) to suit the audience
• Mediabrands does not require candidates to have a college degree

Desired Skills & Experience

• Knowledge of SQL a plus
• Ability to proactively drive the business forward (i.e. being able to take the initiative rather than rely on direction)
• Ability to delegate and oversee direct reports
• Proven ability to develop and maintain strong professional relationships with clients, colleagues and vendors
• Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills
• Strong time-management and organizational skills
• Proven problem solving ability
• Ability to work successfully within a team, handling multiple projects and meeting tight deadlines under pressure
• Nice to have:
• Experience with the following industry tools a plus: Syndicated Consumer (e.g. Simmons, MRI), Syndicated Sales (e.g. IRI, Nielsen), Media Consumption (e.g. N-Power, Arbitron, ComScore), Paid Media Monitoring (e.g. Kantar, AdViews), Social Media Monitoring (e.g. NetBase, Sysomos), 1st Party (e.g. CRM), 3rd Party (e.g. Blue Kai), Digital Ad Server (e.g. DART, Atlas, Mediamind) & Site Served, and/or Website Analytics (e.g. Omniture, Web Trends)