Position Title: Data Solutions Lead

Duties & Responsibilities: Data Solutions Lead The Data Solutions Lead is a data expert and a marketing technologist rolled into one. This is a central role with high visibility across all client project teams within MarketShare. Ideal candidates will have a high level of business, technical, and communication skill. This position will report to the Director of Data Management, and will work cross-functionally with the Strategy, Analytical Insights, and Product Solutions teams to deliver high quality data services for our client engagements. Ideal candidates will have the opportunity to grow in a number of areas: Client Delivery: * Enable the MarketShare client teams to make successful use of common data sources, by providing education on the data sources (i.e. The methodology behind the data, taxonomy, limitations, etc.) * Providing guidance on data selection (i.e. How to query the data source to get the most relevant data for the client’s needs) * Providing guidance on data design and usage (i.e. How to transform the raw data to provide the best set for variables for modeling) * Evaluating the data and working with internal and external partners to resolve issues and questions * Scale the operation with efficient processes, tools, and knowledge base Innovation: * Help drive profitable growth by creating and improving processes and tools, and contribute to best practices and internal development projects * Work with Business Development team to evaluate, establish, and operate relationship with partners providing data content, services, and technology * Work with Data Management, Product, and Engineering teams to design, implement, and rollout automated data integrations (API, FTP, ODBC, etc) with our partners. * Methodology development: Contribute to MarketShare’s portfolio of internal tools and client facing products providing new analytical functionality and process efficiency Culture: * Gain a deep understanding of how marketing works across a wide range of clients and industries * Work with Data Management, Strategy, and Modeling teams to create and refine knowledge base, best practice, and design patterns for common data sources. * Promote best practices and knowledge sharing of common data sources * Promote our collaborative and positive working environment and share knowledge and experience with other team members What We Look For As a company developing innovative and ground-breaking solutions for our clients, we recognize that candidates from distinct backgrounds may be a good potential fit. Our ideal candidates possess a combination of professional work experience in quantitative analytics, especially marketing analytics, with strong project management talents, and time management ninja skills. Attention to detail is a must. (Projects are very sensitive to even slightest data change, must be able to pin point an error within huge datasets and explain with clients if necessary.)

Position Qualifications: Must haves: * 2+ years of experience working with large sets of diverse, client data source files with SAS system. SAS application/macro development skill will be valuable. * Bachelor’s Degree preferably in statistics, mathematics, marketing, economics or an applied science. * Skilled at distilling complex technology down to concise business language * Ability to distil complex domain knowledge down to easy-to-digest knowledge base and training modules * Advanced SAS Linux environment and window environment skills. * Excel-pivot table, vlookup, (VBA experience desired but not required.) * Experience auditing data, developing data, and performing data validation * Must be able to understand the complicated algorithm systems in short period of time and be driven to find ways to improve the efficiency. * Experience evaluating methodologies, business impact, and uses of those technologies and data * Understanding and experience working with relational databases * Experience developing process steps and quality checks * Japanese and or Korean language fluency a major plus About Us MarketShare is an analytics company that enables businesses to grow more efficiently via cross-media attribution and marketing optimization through our platform of combined technology, data, modeling and business intelligence solutions. We are reshaping the way companies think about advertising and marketing their products and services and delivers unprecedented recommendations and checkpoints to help them achieve the best possible ROI via marketing. The mathematics and modeling behind our work are globally recognized and respected as industry-leading. We pride ourselves on a track record of developing ground-breaking innovations in predictive analytics and software, and delivering insights that exceed client expectations, which has led to continued growth and long-term client relationships. MarketShare is currently powering marketing and media insights for many of the Fortune 500 companies, leading ad agencies and large media conglomerates around the world. We have helped direct over $100 billion in marketing spend for clients in over 45 countries and all U.S. DMA's. MarketShare team has grown worldwide across Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, and Bangalore. Outside Recruiters: Please do not contact MarketShare employees with unsolicited resumes Apply Here: http://www.Click2Apply.net/y6kb4zg

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Contact Email: tduccini@marketshare.com

Application Deadline: 10/06/2013