Sr Manager - Retail Media

Job Title: Sr Manager - Retail Media

Location: Seattle, WA

Duration: / Term: 6+ months

Job Description:

Experience Desired: 8+ Years.

This role requires an exceptional individual who is intellectually curious, analytical, enthusiastic, detail-oriented, and a self-starter to join our team. This role is a highly visible position central to the continued growth, efficiency, and success of the client retail media team. The role will have broad exposure across Analytics, Sales and Marketing teams and the ideal candidate will have a strong background in statistics and data analytics with a deep understanding of the retail/media industry.

Roles Specific Responsibilities

• Experience doing media strategy, tactical planning and vendor management in the discipline of retail/shopper marketing, within an agency, retailer's media organization or CPG's trade or customer marketing department; 5+ years preferred but not required
• Familiarity with Ad Servers, DSPs, DMPs, onsite & offsite targeting, & identity graphs a plus
• Strategic thinker in the development of Shopper Marketing programs and management of day to day business
• Collaborate with the Sales and Marketing teams for the development, execution and delivery of short and long-term customer insights needs to influence media investment strategies and business growth opportunities
• Ensure delivery of assigned insight analyses with end-to-end ownership, clear communication, detailed project plans and operational processes that drive visibility & accountability with Sales, Marketing & Analytics stakeholders
• Drive strategic initiatives including identifying issues, creating hypotheses, executing the analysis and translating data into meaningful insights and actions.
• Develop and present concrete hypothesis-driven impactful deliverables clearly answering the so-what clearly for the advertisers
• Support development of executive level presentations and perspectives
• Sound decision making skills based in agency, client, and industry knowledge

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, operations research, marketing analytics, or any related quantitative field AND 7-9 years of experience in analytics, consulting, retail, media, and/or other relevant industries
• An understanding of the media/advertising landscape and industry & 7-8 years of product marketing experience in media, retail, technology, or digital ad tech industries
• MUST HAVE minimum 5 years of hands-on experience of SQL in Hive/Hadoop/Google Cloud Platform environments
• Must have hands on data analytics experience with strong programming skills in R/Python
• Must have hands-on experience with Microsoft Office Applications (e.g. Excel/PowerPoint)
• Experience in developing and presenting strategic, action-oriented oral & written communication - providing recommendations from complex analytics efficiently and engagingly to an executive audience
• Proficiency in BI Tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, Omniture/Adobe Analytics)

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, operations research, marketing analytics, or any related quantitative field
• Self-starter looking to develop and apply analytical frameworks to help solve complex open-ended business questions with relevant data
• A good balance of strong analytical skills and thought leadership
• Thrives under pressure, balancing multiple workstreams and priorities
• Team player who can thrive in fast-paced, results-oriented environment
• Trust based, strong relationship builder with internal and external partners
• A proven track record for working cross functionally in a marketing team
• Adept at analyzing results, synthesizing data, drawing out insights & implications, and developing insightful and actionable recommendations; experience using tools & platforms such as Simmons, MRI, Kantar or equivalent preferred
• Dynamic personality able to effectively engage and influence a variety of audiences
• Passion about business and dissatisfaction with status quo - always thinking of ways to improve and grow
• Confident presenter and clear, persuasive communicator (verbal and written) of complex data/details
• Lead overall strategy for clear, consistent, and compelling narratives which illustrate product capabilities, differentiation, and value

Key Skills:

Media / AdTech, SQL, Hive or Hadoop, GCP, PowerBI, AEM