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Sourcing Analyst
Paramount Pictures
Hollywood, CA, United States
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Overview and Responsibilities
The Marketing Sourcing Analyst will be responsible for supporting sourcing activities, projects and initiatives for multiple business units across marketing. This role will spearhead modeling and analytical efforts, providing strategic thinking, business intelligence, and data insights to guide business objectives and maximize opportunities.
He/she will collaborate and provide team support in identifying, analyzing and quantifying global, regional and local marketing spend and performance data. This person will be charged with designing, developing and maintaining efficient and effective analytical processes and execution improving business decision making. We are looking for someone that is intellectually curious and thrives in a highly collaborative team environment.
Responsibilities to include, but not limited to:
• Support leadership and team by providing vendor spend data analysis across all business units to drive company-wide synergies, when appropriate, highlighting opportunities with common vendors, agencies, spending, or processes.
• Analyze and interpret information from multiple data sources, constantly identifying new ways (e.g. automation & technology) to improve the usage of existing data, analytics infrastructure and develop new capabilities.
• Support leadership and team by providing classification/categorization, savings tracking and benchmarking of marketing vendors across multiple business units.
• Work with team throughout opportunity assessment, strategy & project plan development, end-to-end negotiations, sourcing engagement, and contracting processes to achieve strategic marketing and financial goals.
• Compile, prepare and manage marketing and financial data in support of analyses, including data quality checks and integration. Translate data, statistical information and financial analysis into actionable conclusions, insights and business recommendations.
• Ensure reporting, metrics and dashboard deliverables are maintained in a timely manner.
• Create and deliver executive presentations that promote sponsorship or drive results and decisions.
• Liaise and interact with other departments and business partners, as needed, to analyze risks associated with the continuous changes of the marketing landscape (i.e. data privacy, ad fraud, etc.), to minimize exposure and negative brand impact to Viacom, filmmakers, content partners, talent, etc.
• Prepare agendas and meeting recaps for meetings as required.
Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing or other quantitative discipline
• Minimum 3 years marketing analytics or finance experience
• Experience in data analysis, statistical modeling, economic analysis, and/or agency/consulting experience a plus.
• Relevant industry experience and strong knowledge in Marketing and Sourcing, with particular emphasis on strategy, analytics, media, digital, interactive media, ad tech.
• Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in project management
• Experience with data mining and analyzing large data sets
Additional Qualifications
Desired skills:
• Highly motivated, driven, and results-oriented with a “can do” attitude who can translate complex business situations and/or large data sets into innovative business opportunities
• Passionate for data and technology
• Strong analytical skills and an understanding of financial quantitative modeling and accounting principles
• Strong organizational and project management skills are a must to coordinate several projects simultaneously
• Strong attention to detail is necessary
• Strategic thinker, strong analytically and at the same time a pragmatic thinker
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience developing and/or presenting business cases
• Proficient in MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment and work with others