VP, Director, Operating System Implementation and Management

Company Description

With a history that dates back over 80 years, Starcom is a global communications planning and media leader. We are an agency still grounded in our founding principle that people are at center of all we do. Each day, we apply this belief to harness the transformative power of data and technology to inspire and move people and business forward. With more than 7,000 employees in over 100 offices around the world, Starcom partners with the world's leading marketers and brands, including Bank of America, Best Buy, Kellogg Company, McDonald's, Novartis, Samsung, Visa and more.

Job Description

Starcom is a world-renowned media agency that delivers meaningful brand experiences. Starcom helps get the right consumers’ attention and creates brand-building results for many of the world's leading companies. Our people are transformational, dynamic, relentless, and fearless experts. We seek out and develop these attributes in our talent and put these qualities to work for our clients.             

As part of the larger Analytics + Technology (A+T) department, the Applied Analytics team draws on the dynamic advertising technology space, digital and offline analytics, and evolving methodologies to address complex research and measurement challenges across Starcom client brands.

The VP, Director will drive implementation, requirements gathering, and global consistency across Starcom’s internal proprietary platform/operating system.  The VP, Director will interact with agency stakeholders and global client leads to providing strong action-oriented recommendations, develop platform roadmaps, and develop best practice use cases in order to drive consistency across the network.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and oversight for teams onboarding to new operating system platform
• Develop best practices and processes for platform implementation
• Develop best practices and processes for system management
• Collaborate with stakeholders across agency teams and clients to ensure smooth system implementation onto new operating system
• Work with internal teams and clients to ensure successful day to day management of system
• Educate, lead, train stakeholders on operating system
• Troubleshoot issues with system
• Manage all projects and rollouts related to operating system

Qualifications

• 10+ years in analytics, modeling, business consulting or media research
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in statistics, engineering, marketing, advertising or business, economics
• Robust experience with design, modeling, and execution of complex data analytics
• Expertise in implementation and application of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data sets
• Working knowledge of statistical software packages and coding languages (SAS, SPSS, R, Python, Advanced Excel)
• Experience leading and developing growth of other team members

Additional Information

Starcom is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.  

The Power of One starts with our people!  To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources.  Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:

• Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
• Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
• Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
• Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
• Matching Gifts programs
• Flexible working arrangements
• ‘Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
• Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances

The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.