Associate Consultant (Analytics)

Associate Consultant (Analytics)

Gurugram, India

The Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has become available to be part of our fast-growing team and to be a key part of the Client Services function. This role provides an outstanding opportunity to join a growing global integrated marketing advisory and will provide an ambitious individual with valuable experience for progression and development.

The Company

mediasense is a global, independent advisor that brings the clarity, connection and confidence modern marketers need to fuel growth. We help marketers eliminate waste and maximize the impact of their most significant investments at scale. Our ambition is to define and own an entirely new category – recognized as the world’s most trusted, independent and impactful marketing advisor. We do this by elevating how clients operate, how agencies deliver, how platforms perform, and how all parts of the ecosystem connect. Because progress doesn’t happen in isolation, it takes alignment, intelligence, and trust. That’s what we enable. That’s what we stand for. That’s Unified Marketing Intelligence.

mediasense is designed around how we help marketers optimize and transform through best-in-class structure and governance (Organization), partners and platforms (Ecosystem), governance and controls (Assurance), and measurement and effectiveness (Science). We have the proven ability to effectively support large, complex organizations and deliver multiple projects simultaneously. As evidenced through our strong track record with clients, we pride ourselves on the consistent high quality of service delivery and the ability to accelerate transformation and growth.

mediasense and has over 200 employees across London, New York, Singapore and New Delhi. For more information, visit www.media-sense.com

The Role

The ideal candidate will have the following:
The Associate Consultant (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.

The role comprises of a wide range of activities:

• Leading a team of juniors 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 Candidate

• 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 find 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.

What We Offer:

• Hybrid working
• Initial holiday allowance of 27 days per year
• Day off for your birthday
• Work from any location in the world up to 4 weeks per year
• Company bonus scheme
• Personal Bupa health insurance from Day 1
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Referral Bonus & New Business Bonus schemes
• Frequent social events
• Performance Recognition and Length of Service awards
• Learning and development opportunities