Associate Director, Analytics

RAPP Chicago is looking for an Associate Director, Analytics to join our award-winning Marketing Sciences team.

WHO WE ARE:

We are RAPP – world leaders in activating growth with precision and empathy at scale.

As a global, next-generation precision marketing agency we leverage data, creativity, technology, and empathy to foster client growth. We champion individuality in the marketing solutions we create, and in our workplace. We fight for solutions that adapt to the individual’s needs, beliefs, behaviors, and aspirations.



We foster an inclusive workplace that emphasizes personal well-being.

HOW WE DO IT:

At RAPP, our fearless superconnectors help to create value from personal brand experiences by focusing on three key areas: connected data, connected content and connected decisioning.


Our data analysts identify who that person is, our strategists understand what they want, and our award-winning technologists and creatives know how to deliver it – ensuring we’re able to activate authentic customer connections for our clients.


Part of Omnicom’s Precision Marketing Group, RAPP is comprised of 2,000+ creatives, technologists, strategists, and data and marketing scientists across 15+ global markets

YOUR ROLE:

The Associate Director plays a critical role in shaping data-informed strategic frameworks, from business objective alignment through test design and measurable outcomes and attribution methodology, building a business case through results and ROI. This individual is responsible for evolving best in class output, analytical rigor, innovation around campaign and media analytics, and insights generation for RAPP clients. 

Under the direction of the Director and SVP, this individual collaborates across disciplines and agencies in developing actionable insights from all campaign results, to optimize creative across audiences in media – in support of the Content Intelligence workstream. This individual will optimize performance marketing strategy and execution based on data driven results and insights. This position drives a best-in-class learning agenda, including test design, key KPIs based on objectives, and optimization recommendations based on results.  This position also supports identifying the decisions needed to create customer journey experiences that are the catalyst for increased acquisitions.

This candidate is expected to bring a consulting mindset to advise clients on the right next direction; to continuously seek, learn and actively use new technologies, tools and methodologies; and to apply this experience to innovate new solutions aligned with client needs.  Resourcefulness, curiosity, passion and fearlessness are required traits of all Marketing Sciences employees.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the development of best-in-class applications of analytics for clients and across the enterprise
• Collaborate across Account, Strategy, Creative and Technology disciplines to produce actionable insights for our client(s) on prospect and/or customer behavior based on campaign results and analysis, both from individual campaigns and at an aggregate/historical level
• Provide a consultative approach when developing client-based solutions, listening for business challenges and designing approaches that will relieve client “pain points”
• Collaborate with subject matter experts in the Media and Data Science space to develop measurement plans and reporting for all initiatives ensuring proper KPI assignment, data collection, test and learn plans, and targeting in order to produce data driven intelligence from campaigns and programs
• Craft innovative data and analytics representations that allow insights to be easily understood and extracted from large amounts of data and analytical output
• Develop methodologies that informs component (creative, format, target, offer, message) analyses and optimizations based on tests and in-depth analyses within or across campaigns
• Drive strategy and optimization plans through lateral thinking, knowledge of results, customer behavior, meaningful data insights and the use of innovative forecasting and insight tools
• Connect multiple data source inputs (including first and third party data and third party research) to produce performance reports, advise on segmentation and assist longitudinal analyses
• Develop observations and insights around campaign results for optimization of Media and omni-channel performance across marketing campaigns
• Ensure analytics rigor in all areas of analytics
• Lead innovation of visualization or other forms of presenting analytical results and insights
• Lead in the development, standardization and implementation of measurement plans
• Leverage Media data and technology platforms to