Analyst, BI, Product Management

Job Description Who We Are Horizon Next is one of the industry's most innovative and data-driven marketing organizations and sits at the intersection of three constantly changing landscapes: people, data, and media. Our business provides strategic leadership to accelerate growth for our clients through brand strategy, media planning and investment, and best in class analytics across all channels. As the leader in innovative business solutions, we are always pushing ourselves to understand what’s next: our next innovation, our next advancement in analytics, the market’s next media evolution, and your next breakthrough idea.

Horizon Next operates with the single goal that tomorrow must outperform today. At Horizon, we understand the value that different perspectives can bring to our clients and culture, so we strive for an environment where our employees feel welcomed, safe and empowered. We value YOU and believe that your authentic voice and unique perspective allows us to create a more rewarding culture, and experience, together.

Our simple recipe for success? We hire talented people (thinkers, doers, dreamers, makers), challenge them and give them every opportunity to grow.

Data and Analytics are core components of Horizon Next. They are used to drive and inform decision making at all levels of the company. The Horizon Next Analytics team offers a suite of analytical models to help our strategy and client teams plan and optimize media campaigns. The Analyst, Business Intelligence (Product Management) will assist in the implementation and maintenance of these models across our clients.

They will become a trusted resource on the data and processes involved in powering the models offered by Next Analytics and work closely with Horizon Next strategy and client teams as they use the various models. The Analyst will be responsible for day-to-day handling of data-related and modeling requests from Horizon Next Strategy and client teams. In addition, the analyst will help with QA of data pipelines and building reporting files for model output.

This is a hands-on role in which the Analyst will be supportive in managing data inputs for models, develop familiarity with the code that runs them, and understand the reporting out of the models.

• 60% - Deploy and maintain Next Analytics models for Horizon Next clients
• Ensure existing model pipelines run smoothly and produce high-quality data
• Help strategy and client teams interpret model outputs
• Assist with onboarding new clients by gathering the required data inputs needed for their models
• Update models for existing clients to add new features or KPIs
• Identify opportunities to automate model onboarding and deployment
• Investigate any bugs or model output issues that may arise
• 30% - Assist with QA of model input and output
• Build processes to provide data to client teams for transparency and reporting
• Work with client teams to maintain QA files
• Help to update mappings and reference tables
• Troubleshoot issues with data ingestion and create tickets to address.
• 10% - Improve processes of existing models
• Work with manager to further develop models
• Build new solutions towards model reporting
• Take time understanding how models work and gain insight on them

You are inclined towards working with data and enjoy building process around it . You enjoy tracking down discrepancies and finding the root cause of an issue. You find the media/marketing as a field of interest to explore. You have a “get it done” mentality and view new requests and challenges as opportunities to shine. You love learning new things and see unfamiliar technology or code as a chance learn and grow.

You see raw/messy in data as a challenge to be overcome. You can explain model requirements to non-technical users and help them interpret model results.

Education or work experience in a media/advertising medium

Proficiency at using Excel to parse and format data. Nice to have:
Some experience using SQL (in educational or work setting)

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