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Analytics plays an integral role in our agency ethos and value proposition to clients.  As such, the Media Analyst will play a key role in driving and supporting customer and agency success.  Under the direction of analytics’ senior management, the ideal candidate will independently and proactively answer measurement questions specific to campaign performance, trends and forecasts, across linear TV, streaming, and digital video.  Collaboration with internal media, digital and account teams as well as interaction with client marketing teams is expected. The analyst will be expected to learn and leverage proprietary software applications, databases, and dashboards as well as academic and professional analytics training in support of client and internal measurement assignments.

As the analyst becomes more experienced with the role and industry, he/she will may be asked to help drive new data initiatives, participate in the development of new proprietary measurement tools and databases, process improvements, and the publication of analytics newsletters and white papers.

As a Senior Analyst, the ideal candidate will also proactively mentor less experienced analysts in analytical methodologies and opportunities to tell better stories through the use of data.  Given this individual’s anticipated level of experience in data analysis, they are also expected to be an active participant in the ideation of new tools and opportunities for data automation across the agency.

Ideal candidates will be critical thinkers, intellectually curious, eager to contribute solutions to complex questions, detail oriented, quick learners, and self-motivated.  He/She/They will be an experienced analyst and motivated to continue to learn independently and from teammates for the purpose of providing high-level analyses, solutions, and driving agency and client initiatives.

Essential duties and responsibilities

  • Oversees the tracking/reporting of client data on a daily, weekly, monthly basis to assess campaign performance and recommend related strategies
    • Proactively seeks opportunities to promote shared data sources to ensure data literacy within the agency and with client teams
    • Subject matter expert on client databases and leader in answering client questions related to tracking and performance
    • Comfort in dealing directly with clients is a must – responsible for leading data gathering and performance related conversations with client teams, Data/Analytics, Marketing, and C-Level representatives, Marketing, and C-Level representatives
  • Analytical tool ideation
    • Lead efforts to improve data presentation, automation, and analysis
    • Active monitoring of conversations across clients to help build new data sources and shared resources to better address common concerns and questions
  • Active consultation to the account and media teams
    • All questions are analytics questions – actively seek out answers to all questions where answers can be found in data
    • Lead conversations to ensure underlying needs are met rather than answering only the specific question at hand
    • Challenge everything in a constructive manner – do we have the best answer?  Can this be done more smartly, efficiently, or accurately?
    • Set appropriate expectations around deliverables and timelines
  • Provides statistical guidance such as statistical viability on client media tests
    • Thought leadership on proper test setup, construction, monitoring and analysis
    • Consider and organize all factors that could potentially impact the learning outcomes of testing
  • Contribute to growing analytics library
    • Assist in curating case studies, white papers, newsletters and education around analytics and industry topics
    • Facilitates analytics as the bridge that connects cross functional teams through teaching and knowledge transfer
  • Mentoring Media Analysts and Jr Media Analysts
    • Proactively seeks opportunities to improve the work of less experienced analysts through exposures to new methodologies, additional analytical rigor or assistance in improved story telling using data
  • Strong contribution to weekly analytics meetings
    • Ideal candidate is expected to actively participate in weekly analytics strategy sessions where industry trends, tool ideation, common client concerns and new methodology exploration is discussed
  • Leadership and communication
    • Data evangelist to teammates, cross-functional teams, and clients advocating for data driven solutions and dashboards that may be underutilized
    • Seeks opportunities to grow the analytics solutions and data libraries, creates case studies, contributes to publications, educates colleagues and teammates, etc.
  • Follows all company health and safety procedures
  • Performs other related duties as required or assigned

Education and Experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.) required.  Advanced degree (M.S., MBA, or Ph.D) preferred.

Experience

3-5 years related experience required. Ph.D degree accepted in lieu of experience.

Specific knowledge required

Advanced knowledge of concepts and practices with the ability to use in diverse business situations

The Senior Media Analyst will demonstrate:

  • Strong mentoring skills with the ability to nurture and help professionally develop junior-level team members
  • Ability to independently formulate hypotheses and solve highly abstract problems
  • Aptitude for leadership
  • Ability to build relationships within the department through example and across clients with reliable follow through on analysis
  • Knowledge of common statistical principles and methods like statistical significance, p-values, normal distribution, statistical power, and sampling.
  • Knowledge of statistical forecasting approaches like time-series and multi-variate regression with an understanding for concepts like bias, skew, latent variables, controlling for exogenous factors, etc.
  • Familiarity with data science approaches and concepts
  • Exceptional understanding and ability to apply quantitative market research techniques and statistical methods of analysis to solve complex business and marketing challenges
  • Strong skills in communication including presentation skills and ability to persuade others in a multifunctional team environment
  • Strong abilities to analyze and interpret raw data and make sound recommendations to senior executive teams and clients
  • Ability to use data to construct strong narratives that communicate clearly and convincingly
  • Extensive experience with managing and manipulating large datasets including variable creation and manipulation.
  • Intermediate to expert level Excel skills required
  • Experience with Tableau, R or Python, and SQL
  • 5+ years professional experience in a business analytics role

Ocean Media Perks:

  • Competitive salary and annual performance bonus
  • Work from anywhere in the US: At Home, In Office, or a mix of both
  • 18 Paid company holidays and 10+ Paid Summer/Fall Fridays
  • Three weeks paid time off for all new employees
  • Baby bonding benefit
  • Annual all agency retreat, as well as regional team building activities
  • In-house fitness center
  • Subsidized medical benefits
  • Fun thematic parties for employees
  • Work from home and continuing education re-imbursements available
  • Snacks, drinks, and catered lunches in the office

 

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