Global Data Ops & Competitive Intelligence Lead

Publicis Groupe; New York (NY); On-site; USD 89,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Family Care for parents andCareg

Pet adoption support

Flexible working arrangements

Work Your World program

Job summary

Starcom, a Publicis Groupe internal agency, seeks a Manager of Data Operations and Reporting to own end-to-end processes for global paid media data collection, cleansing, consolidation, and governance. You’ll design and improve workflows, ensure data quality, and partner with cross-functional teams to enable high-quality reporting and insights.

With a focus on competitive intelligence, you will evolve methodologies, automate processes with AI, and lead a dispersed team to deliver actionable

Qualifications

• 3–4 years of experience in media research, competitive intelligence, data operations, or a related field, including at least 1 year focused on competitive intelligence.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Working knowledge of AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude, or Gemini; experience designing or configuring AI-enabled workflows or agents is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising, economics, applied mathematics, data analytics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the collection, cleansing, classification, governance, and quality assurance of competitive data across 45+ markets.
• Identify opportunities to streamline and automate workflows building in AI tools, agents, and other technologies, with the appropriate quality controls.
• Collaborate with client, research, analytics, and strategy teams to understand gaps in competitive knowledge, contributing to strategic learning agendas on answering business goals and challenges.
• Lead responses to client inquiries and develop polished, client-ready presentations and executive summaries.
• Manage recurring and ad hoc deliverables, ensuring clear scope, ownership, timelines, quality standards, and on-time delivery.
• Evaluate existing and prospective data partners, tools, and methodologies to strengthen the agency’s collection and consolidation capabilities.
• Partner with research and analytics teams to advance the digital competitive intelligence solution, clearly communicating and executing findings
• Ability to detect and translate a story behind numbers/data that moves beyond typical reporting of activity (the "what") to develop the "why" and "how" of competitive strategy
• Project manage ad hoc and scheduled competitive deliverables to ensure on time delivery
• Lead and coordinate a geographically dispersed data governance team supporting operational delivery and quality assurance.
• Support broader Data Reporting and Management initiatives as business needs evolve

Skills

Data operations

Competitive intelligence

Media research

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

Claude

Gemini

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Power BI

Tableau

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Job description

Starcom, a Publicis Groupe internal agency, seeks a Manager of Data Operations and Reporting to own end-to-end processes for global paid media data collection, cleansing, consolidation, and governance. You’ll design and improve workflows, ensure data quality, and partner with cross-functional teams to enable high-quality reporting and insights.

With a focus on competitive intelligence, you will evolve methodologies, automate processes with AI, and lead a dispersed team to deliver actionable