About Spark Foundry:
Spark Foundry is a global media agency that exists to bring HEAT – Higher Engagement, Affinity, and Transactions – to brands. By combining flawless media fundamentals with aggressive innovation, Spark inspires consumers to pay more attention, to care more about our clients’ brands, and to buy more products and services from them.

Balancing the nimble spirit of a startup with the powerhouse soul of Publicis Media, Spark Foundry delivers the best of both worlds to a client roster that spans some of the world’s best and most beloved brands and companies. We combine boutique-caliber insights and service with the buying clout and first-look access of a global leader, bringing the heat to challenger brands that want to act like giants, and to giant brands that want to act like challengers.

With a bottom-up culture that celebrates diversity and aims for all voices to be heard, Spark has become a magnet for the industry’s best talent, with one of the best retention rates in the industry. And by applying a whole-person approach to professional and personal development, Spark develops a workforce that is well prepared for today’s challenges, and also poised to create meaningful careers in the years to come.

Because we know that heat arises the intersection of complementary forces, our professionals come from myriad disciplines and backgrounds: data, analytics, and insights; content and creative production; communications and strategy, finance and marketing, and sociology, psychology, and other liberal arts disciplines.

Overview:

The Operations Manager support’s Client Leadership and Operations teams in the execution of budget management, billing, reconciliation, general reporting, data manipulation, process improvements, and more while maintaining an eye for detail and understanding the interdependencies across the various tasks assigned. The manager works with the team to centralize and standardize processes across all areas of business as well as bring tactical and detail-oriented work streams together to find smarter, faster ways of working.

Role Objectives:

• You are a leader of process
  • You love following a process and explaining a process to others.
• You can work cross-functionally, working with different management levels and teams within the agency in a succent way.
  • Process and data are your friend. You love generating reports that support teams/management in their day-to-day responsibilities.
• You can take data and make it digestible for both clients and internal teams
  • You can pull excel data, pivot, adjust, and present in a PowerPoint presentation for both internal and external client review.
• You are a go getter; you see a problem and say, “How can I fix this?”
  • If a process isn’t working, you jump in and create a new one. You are not afraid of change.
• You are a team player and see your team as a reflection of you
  • You want to share your knowledge by teaching and improving your team’s skills, while also supporting their freedom to create new processes.

• 3+ years of related experience
• Project management experience
• Strong critical thinker and problem-solver
• Experience in providing insights and analytics on data
• Experience in implementing new processes and enhancements
• Strong experience in Microsoft Excel with the ability to easily create pivot tables and use advanced formulas
• Highly detail orientated
• A strong writer who can communicate complex processes in a digestible way to both internal and external teams
• Exercises discretion when presented with sensitive and/or confidential information (e.g. financial information, personnel information, etc.)
• Consistently demonstrates a desire to learn through proactivity and initiative
• Experience in Media/finance/analytics is a plus

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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