Temporary Associate Director, Marketing Science

About the role

The Business Analytics team is pivotal in delivering modern agency services, tightly integrated with planning and investment teams to exceed clients’ business goals.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop a deep understanding of the client’s strategic issues, initiatives, and competitive position.
• Ensure analytics efforts lead to clear, compelling, and actionable insights; construct insightful narratives through sophisticated analytics techniques.
• Participate in measurement plan development and execution.
• Ensure timely follow‑through on all scheduled and ad‑hoc deliverables.
• Generate and communicate clear, compelling, and actionable insights.
• Recommend and implement research to aid consumer insight gathering and the strategic process.
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve processes.
• Lead, mentor, and train analysts and managers.
• Present reports, points of view, and other materials to clients regularly, both over the phone and in person.
• Contribute to consumer segmentation and audience identification/exploration processes.
• Design tests to measure the incremental impact of media on business outcomes.
• Manage cross‑functional day‑to‑day tasks, ensuring proper prioritization and knowing when to ask for help.
• Partner with Planning and Investment teams on annual budget setting, media plan development, and ongoing budget/plan optimization.
• Keep abreast of industry trends and developments through research and training.

Required Skills

• Industry knowledge in marketing analytics and data.
• Experience in integrated marketing related to media and/or customer‑journey development, including budgeting, revenue forecasting, and ROI development.
• Demonstrated knowledge in audience‑based marketing and data‑driven advertising.
• Strong analytic, critical‑thinking, and problem‑solving skills to clarify strategic and operational issues.
• Proven leadership ability and impactful client‑relationship experience.
• Stellar communication and presentation skills; ability to translate unstructured business solutions into innovative customer marketing programs.
• Ability to train and coach colleagues, with strong organization, detail orientation, business writing, presenting, analysis, and project‑management capabilities (scope, budgeting, timing).

Education and Experience

• University degree.
• 5–7 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.

Pay

$2,800 per week

Schedule

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, with the objective to increase this requirement over time; many agencies already require five days of in‑office attendance.