Insight Manager

Ozone Project

Ozone is a digital advertising business with a difference. We are powered by the human connections created by audience first media businesses – those online places where people come to be informed, inspired, and entertained every day.

Our audience platform combines these connections at scale, with brilliant creative and deep audience capabilities to deliver measurable business impact for brands. We also provide publishers with tools, expertise and a collective voice to maximise the value of the powerful audience connections they create.

About this role

We are seeking a highly analytical, curious and creative Insight Manager to join our award winning Marketing team. This pivotal role will be instrumental in driving our efforts to surface commercial insights from our rich audience data, transforming them into compelling narratives that drive advertiser engagement across the Ozone platform. The successful candidate will play a key part in shaping how Ozone communicates its unique value proposition to the global advertising industry.

Key responsibilities

• Ownership, delivery and development of key Ozone insight activity, including: weekly “Connections” insights (Reading the Nation UK and States of Connection USA); bi monthly audience and moment spotlight insights (US market); seasonal and marquee moment deep dives (UK and USA); and support producing Ozone’s annual “Planning Guide” for brands and advertisers (UK and USA).
• Ownership of commercial insights collateral, ensuring it remains up to date with the latest proprietary and third party data releases, exploring other insight led sales arguments to support Ozone’s commercial narrative, and communicating changes to keep Ozone’s global sales hub fully updated.
• Repackage proprietary insights, learnings, and wider market and consumer trends into broader marketing activity, including campaigns, promotions, activations, events, sponsorships and PR opportunities.
• Work closely with the commercial and sales strategy teams across markets to understand their needs and support them with proactive or inbound advertiser brief requests, offering broad audience, marquee moment and category insights.
• Support the Head of Research & Insight with advertiser client activity, including agency presentations, industry events and other ad hoc initiatives.
• Oversee the development of brand, category and advertising product case studies that showcase the power of Ozone’s audience and platform.

Required experience/ skills

• Proven experience in an insights focused role within the advertising, media, technology or research industries.
• Demonstrable experience in analysing complex datasets and translating them into actionable, commercially relevant insights.
• Familiarity with industry currencies and data sources, such as Ipsos iris, Comscore and PAMCo.
• A deep understanding of digital advertising ecosystems, including audience data, targeting and measurement.
• Strong storytelling abilities, with a proven track record of packaging and presenting data insights in a compelling and persuasive manner.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to present to internal teams and external clients, and a natural ability to simplify complex concepts.
• A curious, analytical and commercially minded outlook, with a proactive approach to identifying new insight opportunities.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and platforms.
• Experience in formulating insights for multiple international markets and commissioning proprietary research is highly desirable.

You will be

• Highly collaborative and a team player.
• Self motivated and able to work independently.
• Detail oriented with a commitment to accuracy.
• Creative and innovative in approach.
• Passion for data and its ability to drive commercial success.
• Adaptable and comfortable in a fast paced, evolving environment.

About the process

We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds.

We are an equal opportunities employer, hiring solely on merit and business need. We encourage applications regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood and disability.

If you require reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process, please make us aware.

What we offer

• 30 days annual leave plus your birthday day off
• Competitive AVIVA pension scheme, with employer contributions up to 4%
• Medical cash plan – contributions towards a range of health benefits including physiotherapy, prescriptions and health screenings.
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality – includes unlimited virtual GP consultations and Mental Health support, in addition to cover for illness and a number of other incentives and benefits. This also includes generous cash allowances towards optical, dental and audio needs.
• Income protection – to support you financially following serious illness or injury. This pays up to 70% of your salary for up to 5 years
• Group life assurance – tax free lump sum of 4x salary paid to your chosen beneficiaries
• Employee Assistance Programme – range of mental wellbeing support including life coaching and crisis support
• Rewards and discounts via interactive apps to make savings at your favourite brands, including gym discounts and savings on holiday and travel
• Cycle to work scheme with Evans Cycles
• Salary sacrifice childcare with Yellownest
• Hybrid working – mix of office and home working

Our values

• We can build a better future for our industry. We are building a future for digital advertising in which audiences, publishers and brands can thrive. Where high quality, editorially governed content has a successful and sustainable future.
• Everyone can make a difference. It takes a lot of different people, ideas, and hard work to turn big ambitions into reality. Everyone’s input is needed, and everyone’s contribution is valued.
• Together is the best way. Born from collaboration, we believe team working is the best way, and our natural instinct is to help. Success is a team effort, so that’s how we work internally, and with all our partners too.
• Be open, authentic, and human. Positive progress comes from being transparent, telling it how it is, and keeping things simple. That’s the environment we like to create, and we warmly welcome people into it.