Harrison and Star

Associate Director, Data Operations

Harrison and Star$70K — $125K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS/BA or MS in relevant fields such as Business, Marketing, Statistics, Data Science, or Computer Science
  • 8+ years of experience in marketing science, analytics, or data operations, primarily in agency settings
  • 6+ years specifically handling marketing data, especially related to paid media
  • Proficiency in advertising technology platforms and data transformation tools; DBT or Great Expectations preferred
  • Strong knowledge in cloud technologies and project management tools like Smartsheet or JIRA
  • Expertise in business intelligence technologies including PowerBI or Salesforce Marketing Cloud Intelligence
  • Excellent communication skills with experience across various functional and leadership levels

Responsibilities

  • Guide team evolution by optimizing tools, workflows, and organizational design
  • Lead complex project execution and development
  • Implement taxonomy and naming conventions for data management
  • Enforce data quality standards through rigorous governance
  • Connect business impacts to broader organizational goals
  • Drive creation of innovative reporting solutions for campaigns
  • Manage technology processes for efficient data access and analysis

Benefits

  • Commitment to developing exceptional talent
  • Focus on building inclusive teams
  • Support for professional development and career growth opportunities
  • Dynamic work environment promoting creativity and innovation
  • Emphasis on collaboration and team strength enhancements
Full Job Description
Agency:
PHd

Job Function:
Data and Analytics

Job Subfunction:
Data Engineering

Job Description:
Team Overview

With the adoption of Omni as Omnicom's marketing insights and data platform, the holding company is centralizing its capabilities and provisioning data throughout the organization, resulting in better, faster, and more intelligent decisions for our clients. Omnicom Media Group created the Data Operations function to lead the charge, which includes developing new data pipelines, reporting solutions, and implementing performance reporting into Omni.

Position Overview

This role will ensure that our agency and client teams have access to timely, accurate, reliable data they can use to quickly make critical business decisions. Increasingly, the role needs to ensure these business decisions, analyses and optimizations are powered by AI either through ensuring accurate data, detecting & democrotizing insights, or automatically making optimizations in real time. In order to achieve these goals, the role needs to excel in the following Marketing Intelligence competencies:

Reporting, Data, and Technology Expertise
Media and Marketing Industry Knowledge
Data Quality, QA, Automation and Governance
Delivery, Project Management, and Process Development
Account, Stakeholder, and Relationship Management
Creativity, Innovation, and Problem Solving
Business Impact and Company Advancement

Key Responsibilities

Leverages mastery of tools, systems, workflows, and teams to guide and evolve the team - streamlining and designing our most complex processes, suggesting organizational design and responsibilities, and leading implementation or selection of new partners or vendors
Support the design and execution of our most complex projects
Lead the design and implementation of taxonomy and naming conventions
Enforce governance and high data quality standards
Sees business impact beyond team and function, connecting prioritization and work delivery to broader Annalect, Omnicom Group, and client goals
Expert-level knowledge across the firm, with the ability to connect dots and grow the overall bench knowledge/strength of the team
Support the client and agency in data quality and use of data for better decision-making

Campaign Reporting Capability Development

Drive rapid development of innovative campaign reporting solutions
Support the business lead for campaign reporting, providing requirements to the product organization that address campaign reporting needs across Omnicom networks and agencies
Ensure the capability delivers on-demand access to agency teams and clients in a manner that facilitates intuitive understanding and sound decision-making, be it through dashboards, reports, data services, or analytic environments
Support the engagement model across OMG functions and teams, including defining a process for the roll-out

Campaign Reporting Capability Delivery

Support defining and managing technology-driven processes that enable efficient access to usable data for analysis and presentation to empower agency teams to make informed decisions about their client's business in support of both U.S. and global accounts
Support the development of business cases and transition campaign reporting delivery to the organization.
Operate as an extension of offshore Annalect teams to support the successful delivery of campaign data solutions
Provide expertise across data sources to drive the development of governance solutions (processes, technologies, etc.) to ensure achieving service level performance across accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and access rights

Required Skills And Qualifications

BS/BA or MS in Business, Marketing, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field
8+ years' experience in marketing science, advertising analytics, data operations, business intelligence, or campaign insights, ideally in a media or agency environment
6+ years in marketing agency or directly working with marketing data - ideally focusing on paid media
Proficiency with advertising technology platforms and data quality/transformation tools is required. Experience with DBT or Great Expectations preferred.
Knowledge of cloud technologies and project management tools is required. Experience with Starburst, Smartsheet, and/or JIRA preferred.
Expert in business intelligence technologies; direct use of PowerBI or Salesforce Marketing Cloud Intelligence (f/k/a Datorama) is required. Experience with Tableau or Looker,
Experience with programming/query languages for business intelligence purposes, including fluency in SQL, is strongly preferred. Familiarity with Python, JavaScript, or DAX is preferential.
Ability to influence and manage cross-functional teams without formal authority; extensive involvement on projects including offshore, technology, operations, vendor, or agency teams required
Ability to oversee all stages of the Customer Lifecycle (Awareness, Conversion, Purchase, Activation, Renewal, and Referral) and distill technical information for non-technical audiences preferred; demonstrated success working with global, analytics, and client teams required
Previous roles supporting solutions engineers, technical account managers, project managers, product managers, or business intelligence developers preferred
Excellent communications skills; experience communicating across functional groups and leadership teams with varying degrees of technical background preferredNew York: $70,000.00-$125,000.00

Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom's corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we're focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us-we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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About Harrison and Star

Harrison and Star is a healthcare advertising agency that provides marketing and advertising services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company offers a range of services including brand strategy, creative development, digital marketing, and market research. Harrison and Star was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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Founded
1986
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