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The Role in Brief:
Associate Director, Marketing Analytics
The Associate Director, Marketing Analytics discovers, analyzes, and communicates optimal marketing strategies that accelerate results for partners. The analyst’s deep knowledge of Enrollment Services marketing campaigns, identification of program successes and opportunities, and discovery of recruitment trends by analyzing results across all our higher education partners ensure that best practice marketing strategies are applied to every campaign. The Associate Director, Marketing Analytics is central to the Marketing & Analytics team mission to turn data into information, information into insight, and insight into business decisions resulting in our partners’ success.
This role is open to candidates based remotely within the United States.
Primary Responsibilities:
Campaign and Partner Optimization:
- Collaborate on global marketing A/B testing design, audience makeup, audience size, execution, etc. to ensure analytic and statistical standards are met and results can be accurately read
- Monitor and read global marketing tests resulting in thorough, comprehensive analysis with insight on test performance and recommendations detailed in presentations and documentation
- Monitor marketing campaign performance through customized queries and dashboards, digging into specific marketing elements to analyze impact and diagnose changes in performance
- Perform end-of-cycle analyses to unpack and detail key areas of success and opportunity for all major marketing programs
- Aggregate individual marketing optimization efforts of similar tactics, producing global recommendations & findings
- Present regularly to internal stakeholders and the marketing strategy & innovation team, detailing insights, opportunities, and recommendations
- Create and update KPIs and statistics used in broader EAB marketing, sales, etc.
- Perform ad-hoc analyses to support marketing strategy & innovation, analytics, partner success, etc.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, analytics, or other quantitative field
- 5+ years’ experience using data analysis to generate insightful findings required
- Exceptional analytic skills with a focus on converting analysis into strategy
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to articulate findings and strategies clearly and effectively
- Detail oriented, with an emphasis on documentation and organization
- Ability to collaborate with diverse functional areas to successfully complete projects
- Strong work ethic, ability to work independently, and a desire to own projects from inception to presentation
- Proficiency using SQL or other query tools/languages to perform data manipulation, with a working knowledge of databases and data relationships
- Proficiency in standard business applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
Ideal Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in marketing, business, analytics, or other quantitative field a strong plus
- 7+ years’ experience using data analysis to generate insightful findings
- 5+ years’ experience in digital marketing, direct marketing, or higher education
- Proficiency developing reports for internal and client audiences that utilize effective visualization techniques and highlight compelling insights, with ideal candidates having familiarity with Tableau
- Commitment to valuing diversity, practicing inclusive behaviors, and contributing to an equitable working and continual learning environment in support of EAB’s DE&I Promise
If you’ve reached this section of the job description and are unsure of whether to apply, please do! At EAB, we welcome diversity of background and experience. We would encourage you to submit an application if this is a role you would be passionate about doing every day.
Benefits:
Consistent with our belief that our employees are our most valuable resource, EAB offers a competitive and inclusive benefits package.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; dependents and domestic partners eligible
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- 20+ days of PTO annually, in addition to paid firm holidays
- Daytime leave policy for community service or fitness activities (up to 10 hours a month each)
- Paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- Phase Back to Work program for employees returning from parental leave
- Infertility treatment coverage and adoption or surrogacy assistance
- Wellness programs including gym discounts and incentives to promote healthy living
- Dynamic growth opportunities with merit-based promotion philosophy
- Benefits kick in day one, see the full details here.
At EAB, we believe that to fulfill our mission to “make education smarter and our communities stronger” we need team members who bring a diversity of perspectives to the table and are committed to fostering a workplace where each team member is valued, respected and heard.
To that end, EAB is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we make employment decisions on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.