About Us

Initiative unlocks business growth for the world’s most ambitious brands. We believe in the power of media to reshape our industry and orchestrate a brand’s entire consumer experience, by balancing both what unites people and what makes them different. When brands unite people in culture, they build Fame, and when brands connect individuals to their unique journeys, they build customer Flow. 

Media responsibility is at the forefront of everything we do, whether it’s creating media plans that reflect the diversity of our communities, promote brand safety, and foster sustainability. 

Our agency celebrates diversity in an inclusive environment where all of our 6,000+ strong talent across 90+ markets feel seen, heard, and valued. Our vision is to create not only a better media company, but also a better media industry, and maybe even a better world. 

TEAM OVERVIEW 

The Cultural Insight and Analytics (CIA) team in London is a group of 30+ specialists covering four principal craft areas of data and analytics: Business Intelligence, Audience & Data Strategy, Research & Insights and Advanced Analytics.

This role will be part of the Rufus Team (Initiative’s dedicated Amazon team) in the EMEA Hub, based in London and servicing the Amazon client teams in Europe.

Rufus is an Amazon-dedicated entity, powered by Initiative, and bolstered by critical discipline expertise from the entire Mediabrands and IPG networks. Our vision is to be a trusted, indispensable partner of Amazon.

We are a collective who share an obsession with the convergence of media, creativity and data, through a branded cultural lens. We are one connected team. Many voices & many countries, with one shared culture based on pride, enrichment, balance, and growth for our people.

Our mission is to become Amazon’s most client-first, customer-obsessed partner by consistently delivering strategic thought leadership, scalable, creative ideas that break boundaries and drive Amazon’s business forward, streamlined operations, and unparalleled media value.

ROLE OVERVIEW

This Director role will work across a number of Amazon business units in the EMEA hub, to proactively find and create solutions with data.

This is a consultative, technical role requiring previous hands-on experience of media data and infrastructure, with the expertise to understand client requirements, identify and design appropriate solutions and oversee implementation. In addition to technical proficiency, data story-telling through smart visualisations and extracting insights from data are critical requirements for this role.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Assess challenges and requirements, identify solutions and write SOWs for clients.
• Be responsible for the successful delivery of high profile and complex projects.
• Work with agency stakeholders, locally and globally to develop the solution / architecture for clients’ BI solutions
• Bring data to life through analysis and visualisations to maximise decision making capabilities and create efficiencies​.
• Work with the Global Rufus team on Global-led projects, often to translate and roll out solutions to meet European requirements.
• Manage relationships with senior client data leaders to understand their data needs and identify opportunities within their business.
• Be a thought-leader in the space, becoming a trusted advisor for senior clients
• Work with junior members of the BI team to deliver solutions.
• Develop and maintain relationships across our IPG and MediaBrands partners to ensure strong collaboration and identify efficiencies and opportunities in our solutions.
• Connect with the other CIA functions to provide holistic solutions and services for clients.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Significant experience of data, analytics and/or tech experience, ideally within a media environment.
• Experienced client partner who excels at developing trusted advisor relationships
• Excellent communicator at all levels of the business, able to talk plainly and simply about data and reporting.
• Strong familiarity with data quality principles and processes.
• Practical experience in agile ways of working.
• Good knowledge of the digital advertising and marketing eco-system, including the programmatic landscape.
• Comfortable with SQL, python and/or other coding languages
• Experience of using data visualisation solutions, especially Tableau or Quicksight.

THE PERKS

We guarantee that your career with us will be varied and exciting. Every day in this fast paced environment presents a different challenge and if you work smart and are the best at what you do, your time here will produce endless possibilities for your future.

You will get our support in developing your skills at every step of your career journey with us. Your manager will help you create a tailored career path and through our in-house experts, and online performance management and learning and development tool, you will have access to a wide range of internal and external courses. In addition to this there are always plenty of internal sessions on the latest developments in the industry, e-learning courses, bite-size learning sessions and on the job training and development.

We aim to provide all of our people with a supportive and fun work environment where you can develop your full potential and benefit from the broad range of opportunities within the agency both in the UK and globally.

When you join us, we want to make sure you feel valued – and that you are rewarded for your fantastic work. So we also offer a range of benefits:

• Unlimited annual leave (subject to manager approval)
• Group Income Protection (after 2 years’ service)
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance or Health Cash Plan (dependent on level)
• Group Personal Pension Plan with matched contributions from 3-6%
• Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Core Hours (Mon-Thurs, flexible start/finish times)
• Early finish Fridays
• Generous Maternity & Paternity Pay
• Wellbeing programme
• Paid time off for Volunteering
• Independent mortgage advice
• Financial education
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Interest free season ticket loan
• Free breakfast
• Subsidised Café
• Free eye tests
• Retail discounts
• Flexible benefits including Dental, Travel insurance, Ride2Work, GymFlex and many more!

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At Mediabrands and Kinesso, we celebrate difference and believe this makes us stronger. Mediabrands and Kinesso are equal opportunity employers and committed to championing an inclusive culture that provides a sense of belonging for all our employees. We do not discriminate against any applicant based on age, disability, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, belief, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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