Temporary Executive Director, Marketing Science

The Company:

Hearts & Science has been inspired by confident marketers seeking business advantage in a world of personalized digital marketing, where CRM and addressable channels converge, and decisions must be made in real time to aggregate effective reach and deliver the right message at the right time.

Designed to inform brand strategies with real-time insights, Hearts & Science is a data-driven marketing agency with expert media planning and buying capabilities, among other services that include shopper marketing, marketing innovation and content activation.

The Business Analytics team is pivotal in the delivery of modern agency services. We are tightly integrated with planning and investment teams to deliver on and exceed our clients’ business goals. 

Responsibilities 

External facing responsibilities: 

• Set the vision, strategy and roadmap to deliver bleeding-edge marketing sciences solutions on your portfolio of clients. 
• Defining and executing the data strategy:  Uncover data needs/opportunities and develop a practical roadmap to get maximum value from 1st, 2nd and 3rd party data through integration and augmentation. 
• Develop relationships with clients by providing strategic advisory on how data and analytics can help unlock strategic opportunities. 
• Encourage creative use of data to solve client’s business challenges and support client’s growth, in close alignment with Planning and Investment teams. 
• Provide thought leadership around analytics, research, measurement, and ad-technology concepts / methods / tools. 
• Develop best in class audience solutions, in collaboration with Planning and Investment teams. 
• Become a trusted advisor to client leads and senior clients and consult on audience strategy, measurement, and advanced analytics. 
• Partner with the Planning and Investment teams on annual budget setting, media plan development and ongoing budget / plan optimization. 
• Share POVs regarding industry changes in the data and analytics space (future of measurement, new data solutions like clean rooms, attention measurement, etc.). 
• Investigate the impact of new data sources and technologies on the future of marketing and the vertical our brands are operating. 
• Lead and mentor direct reports: Continually assess capabilities, provide a roadmap for career growth and institute goals to build and expand skills. 

Internal facing responsibilities: 

• Provide methodological support, coaching, training and advice to your direct reports and to the broader teams. 
• Recruit new talent. 
• Lead the development of playbooks for audience and measurement activities to help standardize the delivery of high-quality marketing sciences services across the agency. 
• Build the pipeline and be responsible for the revenue goals of Marketing Sciences. 
• Actively help to develop and grow Marketing Sciences offerings by contributing to POVs and exchanging knowledge with colleagues at Annalect and in the broader OMG network. 
• Keep in front of industry trends and developments by conducting research, engaging in training and attending industry events. 

Required Skills 

• Industry Knowledge in marketing analytics and data (1st and 3rd party data solutions, data lakes, data clean rooms, aggregated and user level data) 
• Experience in integrated marketing related to media and/or customer journey development, including budgeting, revenue forecasting, ROI development.   
• Expertise in audience-based marketing and data-driven advertising 
• Solution development: analytic skills, critical thinking and clarifying strategic & operational issues as relates to data and analytics.  Problem-solving skills to drive issues to resolution. 
• Proven leadership ability and strong, impactful client relationship experience 
• Stellar communication and presentation skills: we need someone who is articulate, engaging and straightforward – and, above all, can effectively and convincingly translate unstructured business solutions into innovative customer marketing programs 
• Ability to train and coach colleagues for growth: being organized and detail oriented, prioritizing work, business writing & presenting, conducting analysis, and project management (scope, budgeting, timing) 
• Comfortable working in ambiguous situations 
• Passionate about driving change by adopting emerging technologies in the advertising space 

Education and Experience 

• A university degree and 13+ 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 

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, benefits include: health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, 401(k), Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, vacation days, sick days, personal days, paid parental leave, paid medical leave, and STD/LTD insurance benefits.

Compensation Range$150,000—$250,000 USD

This role is hybrid, requiring three (3) days per week in the office. The remaining two (2) days may be worked remotely. Specific in-office days will be discussed during the interview process, with flexibility to align with team needs. Please note that the number or required in-office days may be adjusted over time, potentially increasing the number of required in-office days based on business needs.

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