Insights & Connections Manager

GLOBAL-ASM SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative marketing agency in Singapore is seeking a strategic and experienced individual to enhance client relationships and lead marketing initiatives. With responsibilities including overseeing insight tools and driving strategic direction, the ideal candidate will possess significant digital marketing experience and strong communication skills. This agency offers a competitive salary, personal development plans, and a hybrid work model for great work-life balance.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Annual compensation reviews

Work from Anywhere scheme

Impact Leave for volunteer activities

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant experience in strategy and/or planning roles.
• Experience in digital marketing across multiple channels.
• Ability to articulate complex information effectively to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead relationships with insight tools like GWI and SimilarWeb.
• Drive cross and upsell opportunities for data and tech teams.
• Work with planning teams to bring strategic directions to life.

Skills

Digital marketing expertise

Exceptional communication

Strategic mindset

Investigative skills

Negotiation skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

GWI

SimilarWeb

Meltwater

Job description

WeareAssembly – and we’renotliketherest. We’re the modern alternative agency, bringing together industry-leading data, talent, and tech to find the change that fuels growth for the best brands on the planet, including Lenovo, Lane Crawford, Marina Bay Sands, and more. Our diverse, global community of over 1,600 passionate experts combines global thinking with unmatched local expertise in more than 20 markets worldwide – enabling brands to engage and move consumers anywhere. We use STAGE, Assembly’s proprietary, privacy‑centric data‑solutions platform, to surface powerful insights that transform into actionable brand opportunities. We’re at the cutting edge of new media, technology, and platforms embedded in the lives of today’s consumers, and we’re tapped into how culture and communities’ needs change. We do this while staying steadfast in our commitment to leave the world better than we found it through measurable social and environmental impact work.

AssemblywasnamedTheDrum’sAPACMediaAgencyoftheYearin2021

WHOWE’RELOOKINGFOR

The Insights and Connections function is responsible for the identifying and providing of relevant and pivotal intelligence (e.g.; consumer behaviour, category analysis, market trends, etc.) to provide valuable insights and create meaningful connections between our client’s business with the market and target audiences. This will provide our team the clear direction to build relevant and effective go‑to‑market plans to ensure industry‑leading strategic output for our clients.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING ON ANY GIVEN DAY

• Bese as an expert across the business and externally (have a POV on trends, contribute to thought leadership pieces, uncover opportunities within client’s and internal business/process)
• Lead the relationship with insight tools (GWI, SimilarWeb, Meltwater, etc) and ensure uptake and consistent usage across the business
• Focus on strengthening existing and seeking new client relationships
• Influence overall approach to media outside of our scope
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of our client’s industry and what impacts performance beyond media optimisations (vertical dynamics, competition, consumers behaviour) and impart this to the wider team members
• Drive adoption of our strategic proposition across our client base to improve Assembly’s services across media strategy, planning and storytelling
• Lead agency‑wide training initiatives to improve our capabilities across the board
• Lead client briefing(s) on behalf of Assembly to understand client’s overall marketing strategy and campaign objectives.
• Work hand in hand with planning and activation team to bring the strategic direction to life on plans, media and activation
• Actively seek cross and upsell opportunities, and play a key role in driving new business for the data and tech teams

DOESTHISSOUND LIKEYOU?

• Bachelor Degree with 5 – 7 years of relevant experience
• Experienced and knowledgeable in digital marketing across multiple channels
• Hold previous agency experience working in strategy and/or planning
• Truly collaborative and integrated in your approach, with a strategic mindset and a proactive attitude
• An exceptional communicator skilled in articulating complex information to senior stakeholders of differing knowledge levels
• Able to interpret market data and fuse separated data points to gather to present an insightful strategic proposition to clients across a range of verticals
• Highly investigative and resourceful – able to uncover valuable data and signals from diverse sources
• Unafraid to push boundaries in your commitment to find and solution to solve complex challenges
• Able to demonstrate exceptional negotiating skills with an aptitude and eye for commercial opportunities
• Regional APAC experience and knowledge is a plus, as you will be working with offices in the geography

WHY ASSEMBLY?

• We’re part of Stagwell (NASDAQ:STGW), the challenger network built to transform marketing. We’re nimble, smart, and digital‑first, and we’re quickly growing to take on the biggest legacy hold‑cos.
• We care about your growth – we offer competitive salaries, annual compensation reviews, and keep detailed personal development plans to ensure you’re hitting your personal and company goals.
• We recognise and celebrate your success… all the time! Whether it’s through company meetups, employee recognition programs, or just a regular day, we make sure our people’s achievements are known and appreciated!
• We’re truly people‑first organization. That’s why we operate in a hybrid model with flexibility, Work from Anywhere Scheme, allows you to be in control of your work‑life balance.
• We believe in making impactful change in society, we encourage you to take Impact Leave time off from work to engage in volunteer activities with a charity that you support.