Analyst, Product Feeds Jobs

About Ovative Group
Ovative Group is the premier independent media and measurement firm in the United States. We help change makers, in fast-growing, customer-centric organizations across industries reinvent their marketing and measurement programs. We leverage our media, measurement, and consulting capabilities to help brands like Coach, Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman, Facebook, The Home Depot, CVS, Disney, and UnitedHealth Group transform their media and marketing programs. Our proprietary approach to measuring and optimizing marketing investment decisions, Enterprise Marketing Return (EMR), is disrupting the industry and setting the gold standard for customer and marketing strategy, activation, and measurement.
Recognized six consecutive years on Star Tribune’s list of Top 150 Workplaces and four years on Inc.5000’s list of the fastest growing private companies in America, we pride ourselves in always overdelivering for our clients, our teams, and our communities.  
About The Role
Digital Marketing is a critical part of every consumer journey, but many companies only measure its impact on their digital outcomes. Our approach to feed-based marketing at Ovative Group cannot be found anywhere else. We measure and optimize marketing at the enterprise level, both online and offline. Our omni-channel retail clients are household brand names.
The Ovative Analyst, Product Feeds position is an opportunity for a candidate to take a role at a fast-growing company that has the highest standards for talent, fun, and client success. The ideal candidate demonstrates phenomenal client management, inspiring leadership, great critical thinking, and a sophisticated understanding of the digital media landscape. Their role will play a pivotal role in helping Ovative build and drive new capabilities toward advances in feed-based marketing and product intelligence.
Responsibilities of a Product Feeds Analyst:

• Strategy and feed optimization planning, integrated with all Ovative paid channel teams
• Developing and delivering client communication to demonstrate strong feed marketing expertise
• Leveraging Feedonomics and other technology as needed to support feeds for clients
• Accountability with strategic partners
• Client relationship management:
• Effectively influence partners to evolve strategies and capabilities to help Ovative bring a differentiated approach to feed marketing
• Escalation point to support client teams when feed issues arise
• Guide, manage, and Q/A optimization and management of client feeds across all paid channels
• Feed management & optimization:
• Lead day-to-day management of client feed optimization programs
• Proactive feed optimization and testing across priority accounts in partnership with client account teams and client contacts
• Custom analysis and insights that can scale across channels or clients
• Actively find new test and learn opportunities within feed marketing to build on expertise and unlock new capabilities
• Own, manage and grow the overall relationship and performance of Feedonomics and other feed partners
• Feed testing and optimization strategy, with a customer-first mindset
• Partner relationship management:
• Effectively manage partner relationship and establish trust and credibility
• Clearly defining optimizations and testing goals that align with client KPIs

Requirements:

• Follow best practices to build product feeds, including transforming, modifying, sorting and filtering large quantities of product data into optimized product listings
• Cross-functional project management skills, self-starter who can hit the ground running, shows initiative, but is not afraid to ask for direction and work with the team
• Highly organized, professional individual who works quickly under pressure
• Exceptional communication skills, with positive, collaborative attitude

Preferred

• Hands-on retail or marketing background; experience managing product and listing information for multiple SKUs across multiple client accounts
• Experience working with FTP servers and file systems via applications such as FileZilla
• Experience working in a marketing agency setting
• Experience with Feed Management platforms like Feedonomics, Channel Advisor, CommerceHub, etc.
• Managing and optimizing product data (data feeds) for advertising channels such as Google Shopping, Meta, Microsoft, and others

Pay Transparency
At Ovative, we offer a transparent view into three core components of your total compensation package: Base Salary, Annual Bonus, and Benefits. The salary range for this position below is inclusive of an annual bonus. Actual offers are made with consideration for relevant experience and anticipated impact. Additional benefits information is provided below.
For our Analyst positions, our compensation ranges from $48,000 to $72,000, which is inclusive of a 10% bonus.
Benefits Of Working At Ovative Group
We provide strong, competitive, holistic benefits that understand the importance of your life inside and out of work
Culture:
Culture matters and we’ve been recognized as a Top Workplace six-years running because of it. We demand trust and transparency from each other. We believe in doing the hard and
complicated work others put off. We’re open in communication and floor plan. We’re flat – our interns sit next to VPs, our analysts work closely with senior leaders, and our CEO interacts with every single person daily. Put together, these elements help foster an environment where smart people can support each other in performing to their highest potential.
Compensation and Insurance:
We strive to hire and retain the best talent. Paying fair, competitive compensation, with a large bonus incentive, and phenomenal health insurance is an important part of this mix. We’re rewarded fairly and when the company performs well, we all benefit.
Tangible amenities we enjoy:

• Sabbatical program
• Charitable giving via our time and a financial match program
• Frequent, paid travel to our Minneapolis headquarters for company events, team events, and in-person collaboration with teams.
• Top notch health insurance options
• Flexible paid vacation policy
• Monthly stipend for your mobile phone and data plan
• Access to our office space in NYC, Minneapolis and Chicago
• 401k match program
• Shenanigan’s Day

Working at Ovative won’t be easy, but if you like getting your hands dirty, driving results, and being surrounded by the best talent, it’ll be the most rewarding job you’ll ever have. If you think you can make us better, we want to hear from you!