Associate Director

Spark Foundry is a global media agency that exists to bring HEAT – Higher Engagement, Affinity, and Transactions – to brands. By combining flawless media fundamentals with aggressive innovation, Spark inspires consumers to pay more attention, to care more about our clients’ brands, and to buy more products and services from them.

Balancing the nimble spirit of a startup with the powerhouse soul of Publicis Media, Spark Foundry delivers the best of both worlds to a client roster that spans some of the world’s best and most beloved brands and companies. We combine boutique-caliber insights and service with the buying clout and first-look access of a global leader, bringing the heat to challenger brands that want to act like giants, and to giant brands that want to act like challengers.

With a bottom-up culture that celebrates diversity and aims for all voices to be heard, Spark has become a magnet for the industry’s best talent, with one of the best retention rates in the industry. And by applying a whole-person approach to professional and personal development, Spark develops a workforce that is well prepared for today’s challenges, and also poised to create meaningful careers in the years to come.

Because we know that heat arises the intersection of complementary forces, our professionals come from myriad disciplines and backgrounds: data, analytics, and insights, content and creative production, communications and strategy, finance and marketing, and sociology, psychology, and other liberal arts disciplines.

The Associate Director, Media Analytics and Insights is responsible for the application of data-driven insights into Spark Foundry’s planning, investment, and measurement processes. Additionally, the role requires the candidate to design and lead the implementation of modern measurement plans and longer terms roadmaps for the client. Working closely with internal cross-functional teams and Analytics leads are vital parts of the role, with accountability for the highest quality execution of a diverse array of client and project deliverables an imperative.

The role functions as an expert technical point of escalation, an analytical problem solver, and a technical translator to internal account teams and clients. It also provides ongoing strategic account direction/vision for technology, process, and media reporting/insights.

• Build strong relationships with internal partners, facilitating alignment between the planning and activation functions that manage day-to-day client business
• Build and develop relationships with client business directors and brand teams, ensuring that client and overall data proposition is relevant and aligns with strategy direction
• Identify organic growth opportunities and partner with Client and Analytics leadership to convert
• Encourage a culture of constant data-driven decision making to embed the use of analytics in media/marketing investment planning and activation
• Scope and direct advanced analytics projects to ensure that the deliverables are designed to answer valuable client and media team questions, and that timelines and scope are adhered to
• Have experience and expertise in how to intersect consulting skills, data, advanced analytics, and marketing strategy to drive and improve clients’ business results
• Consult with senior client marketing and business leaders to define and answer most important business questions
• Advise on how to best leverage media and marketing investments to drive business results
• Work collaboratively with the network to provide the client with thought leadership, and use it to create meaningful and measurable marketing experiences
• Underpin client marketing processes with ‘big picture’ measurement frameworks and critical metrics that will be used to evaluate experiences and specific plans, campaigns, or investments across paid, owned, and earned media environments
• Keep abreast of evolving media landscape, including research and emerging trends to provide insight to both media teams and client (as required)
• Guide and work closely with the planning teams and the client teams to deliver on…