Creative Data Strategy and Reporting Manager

Location: Hoboken, New Jersey

Job Type: Contract

Compensation Range: $60 - $65 per hour

We're looking for a Creative Data Strategy and Reporting Manager to join a leading retailer's Creative Business Operations Team! If you're passionate about numbers, data-driven decisions, and spotting patterns, this is the role for you. You'll work closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver actionable insights, design data strategies, and optimize reporting processes. As a manager, you'll lead a team of analysts and collaborate across departments to ensure accurate data analysis and reporting. This position offers a unique blend of creativity, data analytics, and strategic leadership!

Responsibilities:

• Define, plan, implement, and champion the creative data strategy across the Creative Studio tools and teams.
• Partner across teams to support the implementation and maintenance of a data pipeline that minimizes manual input and maximizes output.
• Lead data team in implementing creative data strategy, pipeline implementation, and successful completion of data insight initiatives.
• Oversee design, build and delivery of reports & insights that analyze business functions, key operations, and performance metrics.
• Build and manage relationships through close collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders and SMEs across the Creative Studio.
• Provide support to key business priorities to enable more informed decisions, and partner with Operational leads and other senior stakeholders to implement recommended optimizations across the business.
• Partner with teams to develop and implement quality controls and departmental standards that ensure quality standards, organizational expectations, and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee data/report request process: tracking submitted requests, prioritization, approval, etc.
• Manage and optimize data intake, validation, modeling, visualization, comms of deliverables.
• Examine, interpret, and report results of analytical initiatives to stakeholders in creative leadership, marketing, and product teams.

Qualifications:

• Analytical expertise with at least 3 years of working experience in a data strategy, metrics, and/or analytical position within a creative or marketing team.
• Experience leading creative data strategy through definition, roadmap development, and implementation in a fast-paced and complex business setting.
• At least 2 years of experience managing data roles/team.
• Strong ability to communicate and collaborate with a large set of stakeholders representing a variety of data goals.

• Experience with a wide range of data to develop and analyze financial and operational metrics.
• Experience working with and creating databases and dashboards using all relevant data to inform decisions.
• Experience using analytics techniques to contribute to company growth efforts, increasing revenue and other key business outcomes.
• Working knowledge of data mining principles: predictive analytics, mapping, collecting data from multiple data systems on premises and cloud-based data sources.
• Understanding of and experience using analytical concepts and statistical techniques: hypothesis development, designing tests/experiments, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and developing actionable recommendations for business units.
• Strong deck/narrative building and presentation skills to educate, influence buy-in, and drive change management.
• Strong problem solving, quantitative and analytical abilities.
• Strong ability to assess processes and translate business needs into data requirements.
• Ability to plan and manage numerous processes, people and projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and delegation skills.
• Familiarity with Adobe Workfront and/or Adobe Experience Manager Assets.

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of SAS code statements, models, and macros
• Strong SQL skills, ability to perform effective querying involving multiple tables and subqueries.
• Understanding of data warehousing, data lakes, and data pipelines.
• Experience with data visualization tools: Tableau, Raw, chart.js, etc.

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