Executive Director, Marketing Science

We are OMD, Adweek’s Global Media Agency of the Year in 2020. We are the world’s largest media network with more than 12,000 people working in over 100 countries. As the world grows with opportunities, the key is reacting to them, by making better decisions, faster - combining innovation, creativity, empathy and evidence to help them move faster, reach further and take smarter risks every day.

We pride ourselves on being a people-obsessed, outcomes-focused business that applies evidence and data-based solutions, married with the practice of empathy, to drive performance and growth. When working with our clients, we put ourselves in the shoes of the consumer in order to see the world through their eyes. We focus on finding greater empathy with the consumer so as to uncover insights and opportunities that deliver more valued and valuable connections.

What You Can Expect

Our success is underwritten by our core principles:

• Dynamic diversity. Bringing diversity of perspective, skillset, and background, as well as the mix of ages, genders, ethnicities, skillsets & backgrounds.
• Radical collaboration. Connecting a diverse group of people through instinctive structures, skills and mindsets.
• Rapid prototyping. Fostering a mindset of curiosity in which our people are always building, testing, evolving and retesting hypotheses. All of which is underpinned by a commitment to total transparency.
  
  

We are looking for an Executive Director on the Marketing Science team, a leader who will be accountable for the analytics strategy and for the delivery of our work across audience analytics (budget setting, audience strategy, segmentation, learning agenda, etc.), investment and activation analytics (optimization, post campaign analytics, etc.) to lead a portfolio of accounts across OMD USA. You will own the relationship with key clients, supported by Directors, Senior Directors and Executive Directors and manage a team of 50+ people. Collaboration with other leaders across Planning, Investment and Business Operations is key to deliver on your clients’ business objectives.

External Facing Responsibilities

• Set the vision, strategy and roadmap to deliver bleeding edge marketing sciences solutions on your portfolio of clients,
• Develop relationships with clients by providing strategic advisory on how data and analytics can help unlock strategic opportunities
• Encourage creative use of data to solve client’s business challenges and support client’s growth, in close alignment with Planning and Investment teams
• Deliver thought leadership by exploring new ways to enhance, develop or execute insights through data and analytics (new partners, new technologies, innovative use of existing solutions)
• Develop best in class audience solutions, in collaboration with Planning and Investment teams
• Become a trusted advisor to client leads and senior clients and consult on audience strategy, measurement, and advanced analytics
• Share POVs regarding industry changes in the data and analytics space (future of measurement, new data solutions like clean rooms, attention measurement, etc..)
  
  

Internal Facing Responsibilities

• Provide methodological support, coaching, training and advice to your direct reports and to the broader OMD teams
• Recruit new talent
• Lead the development of playbooks for audience and measurement activities to help standardize the delivery of high quality marketing sciences services across the agency
• Build the pipeline and be responsible for the revenue goals of OMD Marketing Sciences
• Actively help to develop and grow OMD Marketing Sciences offerings by contributing to POVs and exchanging knowledge with colleagues at Annalect and in the broader OMG network,
• Keep in front of industry trends and developments by conducting research, engaging in training and attending industry events
  
  

Required Skills

• Industry Knowledge in marketing analytics and data (1st and 3rd party data solutions, data lakes, data clean rooms, aggregated and user level data)
• Experience in integrated marketing related to media and/or customer journey development, including budgeting, revenue forecasting, ROI development.
• Expertise in audience-based marketing and data-driven advertising
• Solution development: analytic skills, critical thinking and clarifying strategic & operational issues as relates to data and analytics. Problem-solving skills to drive issues to resolution.
• Proven leadership ability and strong, impactful client relationship experience
• Stellar communication and presentation skills: we need someone who is articulate, engaging and straightforward – and, above all, can effectively and convincingly translate unstructured business solutions into innovative customer marketing programs
• Ability to train and coach colleagues for growth: being organized and detail oriented, prioritizing work, business writing & presenting, conducting analysis, and project management (scope, budgeting, timing)
• Comfortable working in ambiguous situations
• Passionate about driving change by adopting emerging technologies in the advertising space
  
  

Education & Experience

• A university degree and 15+ years of data and analytics experience in advertising, management consulting, marketing or digital consulting
• Knowledge of agency-side media campaign planning and execution process is desirable, but not required
  
  

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, benefits include: health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, vacation days, sick days, personal days, paid parental leave, paid medical leave, and STD/LTD insurance benefits.

Compensation Range

$170,000—$230,000 USD

OMD is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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