Profile
Experienced digital marketing professional with a strong background in implementing innovative, strategic analysis to drive business results. I have built and mentored effective teams, that through my leadership, have delivered differentiated client experiences. I have also improved internal capabilities that have driven cost efficiencies and new business wins.
My key skills that enable these outcomes include:
- Building and fostering trusted relationships with my client teams to drive long term growth
- Executing and strategically managing large multi-channel digital projects, bringing creative thinking and proactive problem-solving
- Establishing KPIs to quickly identify and measure opportunities for continuous improvement
- Managing multi-million-dollar paid media budgets that have ignited awareness and consumer action
- Mastering a variety of social listening and analytics tools to create insightful, highly-visual reports that have generated favorable business outcomes
Experience
MXM A PART OF ACCENTURE
June 2019 – Present
Director, Digital Marketing
- Serves as the paid media, social listening, and analytics subject matter expert, contributing to new business pitches; resulted in multiple wins over the last 6-months
- Responsible for all aspects of paid social media execution, managing program budgets upwards of $10M
- Creates relationships and strategic partnerships with key client stakeholders; has secured incremental business with a client portfolio exceeding $2M
- Represents the social insights and paid media practice by leading onboarding for new clients; manages the discovery phase and creation of strategic materials
- Drives performance accountability through defined marketing metrics, timely reporting processes, and strategic, highly-visual reports using cross-channel data
- Recruits, trains, supports, and supervises qualified, senior analytics staff; has been recognized by colleagues as a strategic and creative leader
- Undertakes innovation and evolution efforts for social analytics department by actively seeking internal and external opportunities for improvement and identifying cost efficiencies
MXM (MEREDITH XCELERATED MARKETING)
July 2016 – June 2019
Senior Insights Supervisor
- Developed an agile and repeatable insights framework that enhanced internal offerings through a 37% time-reduction in report creation and delivery
- Restructured reporting capabilities and methodologies for multiple clients to provide a holistic view of their online presence; led to increased share of voice and differentiated messaging
- Designed and developed reports producing key strategic insights leading to incremental account growth
- Led social listening reporting for clients across several industries as well as internal teams, using tools such as Crimson Hexagon
- Managed a diverse group of senior analysts while onboarding new staff, inclusive of creation of training documentation and education
- Led the overhaul of agency-wide social listening policies and reporting that expanded to key client stakeholder trainings
- Researched, built, and maintained important vendor relationships for social listening and analytics reporting tools
KETCHUM
July 2016 – June 2019
Project Manager, Digital Research & Analytics
- Led all aspects of digital projects from RFPs, prospective client pitches, program development and execution, to analysis and presentation of results
- Partnered with account and client teams to provide strategic guidance in the creation of data-driven tactics; my benchmarking approach was expanded department-wide
- Established metrics framework and implemented measurement methodologies to track progress of and continuously optimize against client goals across several industries
- Created performance and trend reports, providing tactical recommendations that drove increased brand awareness, affinity, and transformative business outcomes
- Used social media monitoring tools, such as Brandwatch and Sysomos, to create in-depth social landscape and crisis monitoring reports; assessment of situations for multi-million-dollar clients led to proactive management of brand messaging and outreach
- Completed SEO and website audits to identify issues and areas of opportunity with actionable next steps; improved Google search engine ranking for clients’ key terms by 2-5 positions, on average
- Led company-wide webinars around areas of expertise that gained audiences of more than 200 employees worldwide
McMURRY/TMG (NOW MANIFEST)
May 2012 – September 2015
Digital Analytics and Operations Manager
- Established proprietary analytics structure to effectively and efficiently communicate data, insights, and recommendations
- Developed graphics-based reporting templates in partnership with the creative team
- Created strategic, data-based insights, presenting findings to clients’ key social media stakeholders on a monthly and/or quarterly basis
- Facilitated creative brainstorming sessions with internal teams to improve content, social media, and email strategies; led to several pieces of “viral” content (drew 2-5x more pageviews than site’s average)
- Composed e-newsletters for several clients, with a database exceeding 110K subscribers; through A/B testing, improved email open rates by 5-15%, on average
- Managed major client accounts on a day-to-day basis and key milestones such as website redesigns; through UX enhancements, improved time on site
- Managed social media accounts for McMURRY/TMG and client; increased client Facebook fans by 21% and Twitter followers by 14% in first month of taking ownership
- Led SEO push on client sites; increased organic search traffic by an average of 51%
- Presented on analytics at industry events such as the AM&P annual conference
Core Competencies
- Corporate Communications
- Data Visualization
- Digital Advertising Agency Experience
- Digital Analytics Analysis & Optimization
- Digital Content & Social Media Strategy
- Digital Media Planning, Implementation, & Optimization
- Executive Social Media Coaching
- Integrated Digital Marketing & Communications
- KPI & Benchmark Identification & Tracking
- Marketing Operations & Project Management
- Recruitment Communications
- Search Engine Optimization
- Social Influencer Outreach Programs
- Social Listening & Crisis Management
- UX Best Practices
Education
Bachelor Business Administration (BSBA) and Psychology, Specialization Marketing
Magna Cum Laude
American University, Kogod School of Business (2012)
Industry Expertise
- Associations
- Automotive
- B2B/B2C
- CPG/Beverage
- Education
- Entertainment
- Federal/Government
- Financial Services & Banking
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Pharmaceuticals
- Technology
Technical Skills
Analytics: Google Analytics, Adobe
Social Analytics/Listening: Facebook Insights, Facebook Business Manager, Twitter Insights, YouTube Analytics, Pinterest Business Analytics, Tailwind, Curalate, Track Maven, Brandwatch, Sysomos, Crimson Hexagon
Web: HTML, CMS (Drupal and WordPress)
Applications: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Email Marketing: Mail Chimp, Exact Target, Blue Hornet, Act On, Informz
Training
Google Analytics training
Luna Metrics
September 2014
Facebook Blueprint training
Facebook
November 2018
Presentations & Certifications
Presentations
How to Win the Analytics Game
AM&P Annual Conference
June 2015
SEO 101: What Makes a Great Search Result
DigiMaster Session
May 2016
Certifications
Google Ads
October 2019