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Analytics Manager

Spark Foundry

Analytics Manager

Chicago, IL
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    WE'RE LOOKING FOR A MANAGER WHO: 

    • Can help evolve the Data Sciences/Advanced Analytics/Modeling capability within the practice 

    • Can help provide expertise on Advanced Analytics/Modeling techniques to enhance our capabilities and bring new opportunities, approaches, ideas, perspectives, etc. to clients. 

    • Has a combination of advanced analytical/modeling expertise, business acumen, a strategic/ technical mindset, client relationship and project management proficiency, together with a passion for building new capabilities  

    • Can structure ambiguous problems, own and drive projects from start to finish, apply sound business judgment, and communicate complex information effectively 

    • Has a genuine curious nature, desire to dive deep in the numbers to discover context and make the business case, and goes beyond usual approaches to solve problems and seize opportunities 

    • Has the willingness to “have an opinion” backed up by insight and analytics and the confidence to influence key stakeholders in meetings

      

    ROLE OBJECTIVES: 

    • Work with complex data structures, cleanse data, and perform statistical analyses such as: marketing mix models (MMM), digital multi-touch attribution (MTA), TV attribution, media response analysis, time series analysis, predictive modeling, cluster analysis, user overlap analysis, path to conversion analysis, website analytics, lifetime value (LV) analysis, discrete choice/conjoint analysis, latent class & other clustering techniques (segmentations), multivariate & logistic regressions (ex. multivariate creative analysis), decision trees (e.g. CHAID/CART), factor & correspondence/MDS analysis, simulation & optimization, forecasting, etc. 

    • Leverage advanced analytic techniques to drive marketing performance (ex. site traffic, application volume, conversion rates, CPA, revenue, ROAS, LTV, etc.), isolate key KPI trends and performance pacing, optimize consumer online/offline experiences, predict consumer behaviors, maximize sales conversion, drive optimizations (across media investment and mix, target audiences, and creative messages) and forecast critical business outcomes 

    • Support senior team members in advanced analytics engagements from start-to-finish, including: 

      • Stakeholder interviews/fact-finding to uncover client issues 

      • Propose solution /analytical approach / methodology, with supporting rationale 

      • Manage project timeline throughout, escalating potential roadblocks when necessary 

      • Conduct modeling and analyses 

      • Generate insights 

      • Formulate strategic implications and recommendations 

      • Produce easy-to-understand, error-free, and timely reports 

      • Deliver final presentation of results

        

    • Effectively work across the advanced analytics/modeling lifecycle: 

      • Definition of business questions and hypotheses  

      • Data acquisition from different sources (ensuring adequacy, accuracy, and legitimacy of data) 

      • Data integration (merge, join, subset) 

      • Data preparation and cleanup (missing data, outlier detection, duplications) 

      • Model development 

      • Conduct descriptive statistical and diagnostic techniques to determine model validity, accuracy and goodness-of-fit, such as: p-values, MAPE, Variance Inflation factor (VIF), Durbin-Watson, etc. 

      • Exploratory data analysis 

      • Creating and optimizing models including validation and interpretation 

      • Data visualization (Excel, Tableau, R Shiny etc.) 

      • Insights generation 

      • Communication of results in a clear and succinct fashion

     

  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

    • 3+ years of work experience in a quantitative business environment 

    • Experience in: 

      • SAS, R or Python (Must have worked and created codes from scratch on several projects – not merely running someone else’s code by changing parameters) 

      • SQL (Must have worked and created codes from scratch on several projects – not merely running someone else’s code by changing parameters)

       

    • Experience working with various advanced statistical modeling and other forms of quantitative analysis  

      • Experience in multi-variate regression in projects and understand regressions thoroughly 

        • P-value, VIF, T-score, R2, MSE, Durbin-Watson should all be familiar terms

       

    • ETL processing 

      • Knowledge of database structure 

      • Experience with data manipulation

       

    • Statistical/analytical software packages (SAS, R, Python) and coding/programming languages (SQL, Python) 

    • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel (have the ability to sort, analyze, import, export, clean data, work with pivot tables, and know how to do V and H lookups, etc.) and PowerPoint

     

    NICE TO HAVE: 

    • Experience working with marketing mix modeling (MMM), (digital; TV, radio, OOH, etc.) attribution and measurement companies: including Neustar, MMA (IPSOS), Analytic Partners, Nielsen (mROI; Visual IQ), (m)PHASIZE (Publicis Media), Hudson River Group (HRG), Marketing Evolution, Google Attribution 360, Abakus (SAP), Conversion Logic, TVSquared, iSpot, C3 Metrics, Data Plus Math, IRI, etc. 

    • Business Intelligence (BI) / Visualization tool experience (Datorama, Domo, Tableau, Microstrategy, Microsoft Power BI, Data Studio) 

    • Experienced working with aggregate, cookie, user-, and event-level datasets and ad/mar technologies like: 

      • Ad Servers (Google/DCM, Innovid, Flashtalking, etc.) 

      • Programmatic Media & Exchanges (DSPs, DMPs, SSPs, etc.) 

      • Marketing Clouds (Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP Hybris, IBM, etc.) 

      • Digital & Broadcast Analytics (Google, Adobe, Mixpanel, comScore, Quantcast, Nielsen, etc.) 

      • ETL tools (Alteryx) 

      • Web Analytics (Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, etc.)

       

    • Experience working web analytics platforms (Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, etc.)

     

    Additional Information

    All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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