Manager, Analytics

MediaSense; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A media advisory company is seeking a Manager, Analytics to lead a team in delivering media performance analyses across channels. Ideal candidates should have excellent communication skills, a strong grasp of media data, and proficiency in Excel and Tableau. The role emphasizes problem-solving, team collaboration, and project management, ensuring high-quality outputs and effective client communication.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge across all media channels (online and offline) and excellent theoretical understanding of data parameters.
• Excellent attention to detail and a logical approach.
• Communication of complex concepts clearly across different audiences.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team to deliver media performance analyses.
• Managing pitch management projects and client communications.
• Conducting performance reviews for direct reports.

Skills

Strong knowledge across all media channels

Excellent analytical skills

Technical proficiency in Office suite

Excellent communication skills

Prior experience within a media role

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Tableau

Job description

THE COMPANY

MediaSense is a trusted media advisory partner to some of the world’s leading brands. We specialise in advising clients across all aspects of their media supply chain; their agency, their media & technology partners, and their internal operating model. We are a challenger to the legacy media auditor, consultant and pitch advisory players of the marketing communications consultancy sector offering intelligent, mature and high value advice on business and media challenges.

THE ROLE

A Manager, Analytics has strong knowledge across all media channels. They combine excellent analytical and organisational skills with a logical approach to problem solving. Energy, enthusiasm, loyalty, and a ‘muck in’ attitude are all key attributes.

This is a lead role in managing the delivery of important project and retainer work. Close collaboration with analysts, senior analysts and client leads is essential to ensure MediaSense is delivering high quality work within the agreed timeframe. They will have a superb grasp of media maths, data and analytics; strong account management and organisational skills, excellent report writing abilities; and technical proficiency across the Office suite of products and Tableau to deliver consistently exceptional outputs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leading a team of junior managers, senior analysts and analysts to deliver various types of media performance analyses across multiple media channels (on and offline)
• Leading pitch management projects in terms of evaluation of media agency offers and capabilities and producing client ready outputs in Tableau
• Leading communication with agencies to ensure projects are set up to succeed, establishing project timelines and ways of working and ensuring the agency is held to account on these agreements
• Managing up to the client management team to keep them informed of progress and highlighting any major issues in good time that might hinder a projects progress
• Managing, mentoring and training analysts on accounts and projects
• Overall QA project lead, ensuring aligned analyses are theoretically correct and presentations are client ready
• Line management of analysts. Regularly catching up to ensure your direct reports feel heard and helping them find a solution to any potential issues
• Conducting performance reviews for your direct reports. Leading and guiding review meetings to establish clear and coherent targets and objectives for the next 12 months
• Leading development of specific internal tools. Collating suggestions and implementing developments of all internal tools and processes, particularly for performance tracking and pitch management projects

THE ESSENTIALS

• Strong knowledge across all media channels (online and offline) and excellent theoretical understanding of all the data parameters
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint and Tableau. Using these tools to structure data in a clear and methodical way and spotting patterns and trends in the data to extract relevant insights
• A positive and productive attitude that proactively finds solutions to problems, constructively balancing the speed and quality of delivery. Excellent attention to detail, combined with a logical approach
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly across different audiences and varying levels across Media Sense
• Prior experience within a media role

Ideally, we’re looking for someone who is interested in media and how it is planned and traded, is very good with numbers but is also creative enough to produce interesting visualisations and have good ideas about how to present data. Accuracy is key, as is being able to work to and juggle with deadlines. Above all, we’re looking for people who fit in well with a close-knit team and want to and be able to make a difference at every level.