Manager, Data Management & Visualization

Business Overview 

IPG Mediabrands is the media and marketing solutions division of Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG). IPG Mediabrands manages over $47 billion in marketing investment globally on behalf of its clients across its full-service agency networks UM, Initiative and Mediahub and through its award-winning specialty business units Healix, Kinesso, MAGNA, Mediabrands Content Studio, Orion Holdings, Rapport, and the IPG Media Lab. IPG Mediabrands clients include many of the world’s most recognizable and iconic brands from a broad portfolio of industry sectors including automotive, personal finance, consumer product goods (CPG), pharma, health and wellness, entertainment, financial services, energy, toys and gaming, direct to consumer and e-commerce, retail, hospitality, food and beverage, fashion and beauty. The company employs more than 18,000 diverse marketing communication professionals in more than 130 countries. Learn more at www.ipgmediabrands.com. 

We are looking for a manager to join our Data and Technology team with the Client Growth Analytics group. A successful candidate should be a product-minded, hands-on individual with a strong understanding of technical buildouts, strong leadership skills, entrepreneurial spirit and interest in media and marketing.

You will be critical in helping establish a suite of automation tools & products for a large pharmaceutical client. Curiosity and passion for automation, data management, digital data and new technologies, is a must!

Primary day to day tasks will include working with teams across Initiative to gather requirements and information on workstreams which can be streamlined, developing complex buildout blueprints, leading coding & technical work and communicating with key stakeholders.
A successful candidate will have a wide variety of skills in media, technology, data, and cross team management.

Key Responsibilities:

Essential Functions:

• Collaborate with other company teams to identify existing procedures and identify areas for automation / improvement.
• Engage proactively with key stakeholders and end users to collaboratively define, assess, and prioritize business needs across the organization.
• Responsible for designing major programming & buildout blueprints and executing development work on said requirements.
• Translate high-level requirements into detailed user stories and use cases that design, and development teams can easily implement.
• Contribute to certain strategic planning activities and operational improvement initiatives.
• Assist in developing marketing and training materials, and be the subject matter expert to provide demos, education, and training to drive adoption of the product.
• Assist the management and mentoring of a team, ranging from entry level staff to managers.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 3+ years of automation development work
• Intermediate or better SQL skills
• Expert in Excel from basics (pivoting, VLOOKUP’s, data manipulations, etc.) to advanced skills (macro creation, custom programming, developing plugins, etc.) is a must.
• 2 years of Programming in Python or C++
• Excellent organizational skills: capacity to manage multiple priorities and tasks simultaneously and communicate with all levels of management.

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Experience with advertising technologies or operations (media planning, buying, reporting) is a plus.
• Experience working with data from digital channels (DCM, Meta, AdWords, Bing, etc.) is a plus.
• Previous management experience is a plus.
• Experience working with databases, SQL, tableau and other tools are a necessity, specifically Snowflake.
• Advanced Programming Experience in Python and/or C++, with a strong understanding of object-oriented programming
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including presentation experience to large and diverse audiences.
• Exceptionally self-motivated and directed.
• Experience advocating and driving product adoption and usage.
• Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.

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