Director, Data & Analytics Services GroupM - 4/f, 18 Cross Street

You will be the trusted advisor to Agency teams and clients in all areas concerning media data integration, management, reporting and analysis. You will also take on a team leadership / engagement director role and looked upon as a technical expert in the design and implementation of Datamart solutions leveraging a proprietary data and analytics platform.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Partner, Data & Analytics Services APAC

3 best things about the job:

1. The opportunity to work with a variety of blue chip clients from different agencies under GroupM
2. A role where you not only participate in day to day operational work but will be looked upon to provide technical leadership across multiple projects
3. A fantastic chance to develop and build relationships with internal stakeholders / external clients and senior stakeholder management.

Measures of success –

In three months, you would have:

• Engaged internal stakeholders and/or clients to architect and build a Datamart on our proprietary data and analytics platform
• Advocated the use of our platform, tools and global processes to address challenging data integration, visualization and analytics.

In six months, you would have:

• Lead the delivery of multiple data & analytics client projects while building rapport with global, regional and local partners.
• Help Agencies translate client business objectives into data/analytics roadmaps and increase value-added services for clients.

In 12 months, you would have:

• Acted as a trusted advisor to a number of agency teams and lead game-changing projects leveraging our internal platform and products to drive scaled application of analytics and superior insights. 
• Be an expert contributor and influencer to the continued enhancement of our existing global data and analytics platform and related products.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Manage timely delivery of all Datamarts in the region, ensuring proper resource utilization and effective project management.
• Lead the scoping, design and architecture of reporting and/or analytics Datamarts. This will include data analysis and translation of business logic, recommending data architectures and efficient ETL processes, design of reports and visualization mockups.
• Identify up/cross-sell opportunities with Agencies to deepen the usage/stickiness of client Datamarts and pursue additional revenue-generating opportunities.
• Facilitate reporting and analytics Datamart design workshops with agencies and clients.
• Build Datamart solutions leveraging the proprietary platform, including configuring data management steps and writing efficient MS SQL, Hive, VBA and/or Python scripts to process data end-to-end.
• Manage ongoing communication between business and technical teams for all Datamart projects.
• Ensure Datamarts are properly maintained by the offshore teams and ensure all data refresh cycles are successfully completed with strong emphasis on quality control.
• Conduct product demonstrations (internal and external), including creation of customized demo reporting and analytics solutions leveraging the data platform.
• Train users on the using the proprietary platform and provide expert help/support on addressing technical issues or challenges.

Singapore market overview GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means that aside from the local clients and media owners, we also have a high proportion of multi-national clients and media owners.

As the largest media investment management company in Singapore with over 41% market share (Recma) and over 650 employees, GroupM Singapore is the premiere organisation to join and develop a career in.

Desired Skills and Experience

What you will need:

• Demonstrate technical leadership and team management, with experience managing multiple parallel software and/or database implementation projects.
• Strong technical background in data management concepts, data architecture and data analysis with a keen interest in leveraging data and technology to deliver business insights at scale. (This will be formally tested)
• Significant experience using Microsoft SQL Server and tools, including SSIS and SSAS to deliver business intelligence and/or end-user data reporting / analytics solutions.
• Experience building reporting solutions using popular off-the-shelf tools, eg. Tableau, Microsoft BI and/or Omniscope.
• Familiarity with large-volume data management using scalable cloud architectures, MapReduce framework and Hadoop core components (eg. HDFS, Hive, Pig)
• Good knowledge and past experience in data analysis (eg. regression, clustering and data mining) using statistical packages (eg. R, Python, SAS, Matlab and Excel) will be highly valued.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multi-cultural business partners and stakeholders, and strong team player.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.