Manager - Data Operations and Reporting

Agency Omnicom Media

Job Function Data and Analytics

Job Subfunction Data Engineering

Job Description Role purpose Own the day-to-day operation of a global marketing taxonomy governance service. The role maintains approved taxonomy and metadata standards, manages controlled change, monitors compliance and helps markets and delivery teams apply naming and classification standards consistently.

Working across business, media, data and reporting teams, the Manager ensures taxonomy supports reliable activation, measurement and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain taxonomy standards, data dictionaries, naming

conventions, field definitions and guidance.

• Manage change requests from intake and assessment through approval,

implementation and closure.

• Identify duplicate, conflicting or poorly defined values and protect

taxonomy integrity.

• Chair the governance forum, maintain decision records and escalate

material or ambiguous issues.

• Define compliance rules with data and reporting teams; review results

and coordinate remediation.

• Assess downstream impacts across planning, activation, creative

workflows, data and reporting.

• Confirm approved changes are implemented across relevant tools,

datasets and reports.

• Deliver practical guidance and training to improve adoption and correct

usage.

• Manage analysts or specialists, set priorities and assure work quality.
• Use compliance trends and stakeholder feedback to improve governance

processes.

Essential Experience and capabilities

• Experience in taxonomy, metadata, data governance, information

management or data quality.

• Strong understanding of naming conventions, controlled vocabularies,

data dictionaries and classification structures.

• Experience operating change-control, approval and governance

processes.

• Ability to analyse compliance issues and coordinate corrective action.
• Strong stakeholder management across business and technical teams.
• Clear documentation, facilitation and written communication skills.
• Experience managing specialists, analysts or an operational workstream.

Desirable

• Experience in media, marketing data, campaign operations or digital

advertising.

• Familiarity with campaign, placement, creative, asset or tracking

taxonomies.

• Exposure to planning platforms, data pipelines, validation tools or BI

reporting.

• Experience supporting multiple markets or regional teams

About Annalect EMEA Omnicom Media Group Europe (OMG EMEA) is the media division of Omnicom Group Inc., headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and Newcastle.

The Annalect EMEA team at OMG EMEA is the data, technology, and analytics division. We help CMOs and their teams harness data, technology, and advanced analytics to grow their brands.

We have built a variety of innovative product and specialist service solutions for clients and agency partners.

We build and maintain the Omni platform which gives agency and client teams access to these capabilities as well as the ability to integrate and combine their own data and technology with Omni. Omni has over 30,000 active users and is recognized in the industry as a leading marketing platform. We continuously innovate the platform to ensure our clients stay ahead of their competitors in data driven marketing.

Our team of Annalectuals is growing rapidly and are based in over 80 countries around the globe, supported by global and regional team hubs in NY, London, Singapore, Gurgaon, Bangalore, and Hyderabad.

The EMEA team is responsible for global and regional client relationships led from London, as well as the development of new data-driven marketing capabilities. They form part of our global team and collaborate closely with local market Annalect teams across EMEA as well as regional Omnicom agency partners.

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance. Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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