Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing - Marketing Linkedin - Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing - Marketing

Linkedin - Sunnyvale, CA

Job description

Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager - Marketing

Sunnyvale, CA

LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and every day millions of people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities and gain insights. Our global reach means we get to make a direct impact on the world's workforce in ways no other company can. We're much more than a digital resume – we transform lives through innovative products and technology.

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This role requires strong partnership with the business to strategically manage spend for the assigned categories. The Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager will develop category-sourcing strategy and lead cross-functional teams to execute the sourcing and supplier management strategy for their assigned categories. This position requires seasoned experience with SS methodologies related to indirect procurement commodities by performing market and spend analysis and then working with the business to build a category roadmap, perform sourcing activities, leading contract negotiations and award to supplier, and then utilizing scorecards and quarterly business reviews to monitor supplier performance. The Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager will be responsible for negotiating and administering of pricing agreements, service contracts. The applicant must display the characteristics create and review analysis reports, strongly represent the SS department in company meetings, interact with other departments, effectively lead negotiations and work efficiently handling multiple responsibilities. Ultimately, the Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager should manage and be the procurement expert in his/her commodity area and assist the manager with company-wide SS strategy and decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to manage preferred supplier relationships, monitoring performance and analyzing category spend, and ability to connect with business leaders in an effort to define and strategically leverage spending to include proactive focus on major spend initiatives.
• Strategize with the BU stakeholders to identify and proactively focus on major spend initiatives or opportunities to drive optimal cost savings.
• Propose and drive opportunities for optimal cost savings through analysis of current spend and external category analysis and benchmarking.
• Lead or facilitate the supplier selection, Request for Proposal (RFP) projects and negotiation process to deliver agreements that include excellent long-term pricing models, measurable service level/performance criteria, effective remedies for non-performance, mechanisms for monitoring performance/remedies, etc.
• Facilitate the development of programs to control and automate appropriate categories.
• Manage the assigned supplier base through supplier scorecards and quarterly business reviews.
• Partner with Legal team to ensure negotiations result in optimal terms.
• Work with internal staff and other departments as a team player to achieve desired goals.
• Effectively communicate the mission of Strategic Sourcing and educate internal stakeholders: must be able to understand and interpret the difference between what stakeholder asks for, what they actually need, and what contracts/buying arrangement may already exist to serve those needs
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically; ideal candidate will manage commodity area from high-level definition of pricing strategy to the management of purchase orders.
  

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience in purchasing related background.
• 6+ years experience in managing multiple commodity areas and effectively procuring goods/services in a fast paced work environment is required. 
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in business, supply chain management or other related field.
• Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM) or Senior Professional in Supply Management (SPSM) a plus.
• Expertise in sales and marketing categories and contracts, terms and negotiation
• Knowledgeable in the competitive bidding and pricing
• Knowledgeable in ERP Systems, Oracle 12 preferred
• Experience with report writing tools, OBIEE preferred
• Familiarity with Sarbanes Oxley
• Assertiveness
• Independent Judgment and Initiative
• Confidence in dealing with other departments, outside representatives and upper management
• Expertise in Project Management
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast paced environment
• Excellent communication, analytical, leadership and negotiating skills

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Senior Associate, Business Analytics - Talent Solutions Marketing Linkedin - Mountain View, CA

Senior Associate, Business Analytics - Talent Solutions Marketing

Linkedin - Mountain View, CA

Job description

Business Analytics, Senior Associate – Talent Solutions Marketing

Job description

LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and every day millions of

people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities and gain insights. Our

global reach means we get to make a direct impact on the world's workforce in ways no other

company can. We're much more than a digital resume – we transform lives through innovative

products and technology.

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purpose. Join us in changing the way the world works.

LinkedIn's Business Analytics team uses data analysis to drive our monetization efforts. Our

team is rapidly reinventing the way that proprietary data analysis can drive sales / marketing

efforts and product decisions. We now need a talented and driven professional to accelerate our

efforts and be a major part of our data-centric culture. We're looking for a hands-on professional

with deep experience and passion for B2B marketing to help our Talent solutions better measure

and optimize the role of marketing to acquire new customers and help us grow our relationship

with existing customers.

A successful candidate will be both technically strong and business savvy, with a collaborative

and resourceful style that's contagious. Our team is highly entrepreneurial and business-focused.

RESPONSIBILITIES

 Deliver actionable insights regarding how to track and optimize the impact of marketing

on new customer acquisition and existing customer retention. Example problems to

address are "How can we measure the impact of marketing on customer renewals rates?"

and "How can we segment our prospect audience to determine what stage of the customer

buying process they are at?"

 Be thought partner to marketing leaders in making data-driven business decisions

 Build dashboards to help marketers see the results of their activities and test new ideas

 Help our marketing team think about rigorous A/B tests to measure the impact of their

efforts

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

 BS or MS degree in quantitative fields such as Computer Science, Operational Research, Statistics, Economics, etc.

 2+ years' industry experience

 Experience with statistical testing methods (e.g., how to determine if a result is statistically significant) and how to implement in Microsoft Office

 Experience with SQL/relational databases (Teradata, Oracle etc.) and capable of analyzing and manipulating very large dataset

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

 Overall, a highly driven, results-oriented, creative and nimble problem solver and a willingness to do "whatever it takes" to deliver business value quickly

 5+ years' industry experience, ideally in marketing analytics

 Deep understanding of marketing industry best practices. Experience with B2B or SaaS

business models a plus

 Programming experience in Python, Java, or equivalent

 Familiarity with statistical software such as R, SAS, or SPSS

 Experience with large-scale data analysis frameworks: Pig, Hive, Map-Reduce (Hadoop)

 Experience with Tableau, Microstrategy or other data visualization and BI tools

 Predictive modeling development experience

 Strong oral and written communication skills. Must be able to drive discussions with

marketers and cross-functional partners (e.g., marketing operations)

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Campaign Manager, Marketing Solutions Linkedin - San Francisco, CA

Campaign Manager, Marketing Solutions

Linkedin - San Francisco, CA

Job description

Campaign Manager 

LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and every day millions of people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities and gain insights. Our global reach means we get to make a direct impact on the world's workforce in ways no other company can. We're much more than a digital resume – we transform lives through innovative products and technology.

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We are looking for a Campaign Manager to join our Marketing Solutions team in booking, managing and executing advertising campaigns. Primarily, you will focus on the pre- and post-sales processing of advertising campaigns while assisting with campaign optimization and billing reconciliation. This includes providing quality assurance, logging traffic, pulling campaign placement reports, entry of proposals and reviewing the status of campaigns in order to optimize their performance. Additionally, you will troubleshoot and resolve site and advertiser issues.

Responsibilities:

• Elevate the overall customer experience
• Implement, troubleshoot, deliver and monitor campaigns to ensure they meet client objectives
• Provide a world-class sales support experience by handling clients with grace and confidence
• Ensure all campaigns, starting in the pre-sales stage all the way through a campaigns conclusion, are booked accurately and in a way that meet clients objectives
• Flawlessly execute on campaigns while generating ideas on how to meet all booked revenue goals and ensure customer success
• Make fast, high-quality decisions that strengthen the company
• Think like an owner and have an impact outside of your core functions by demonstrating leadership, providing leverage and producing results that will help effectively scale
• Invest heavily in the team, growing and finding success in the job by learning from one another's experiences and actively working to improve
  

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree
• 2+ years of experience in online media/advertising

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with HTML, SQL, CSS, Flash and JavaScript
• Experience with 3rd party advertising tags (Eyeblaster, Mediaplex, Atlas and Doubleclick)
• Experience using commercial or in-house ad serving systems
• Expert knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel)
• Understanding of ad-serving technologies and order entry platforms, preferably DART for Publishers (DFP) and DART Sales Manager (DSM)
• Excellent communication, collaboration, organizational and project management skills
• Ability to interact comfortably with both clients and internal departments
• Ability to present data in an effective, actionable manner and learn new software quickly
• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines with little supervision

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Product Marketing Manager Pixorial - Englewood, CO, US

Product Marketing Manager

Pixorial - Englewood, CO, US

Job description

Listing Info

 

 

About Pixorial

Pixorial Inc. is an online video platform that makes it easy for consumers to collect, create and share their video memories. Based in Englewood, Colorado, Pixorial is seeking a Product Marketing Manager to help guide our video products to the next level. We've focused on developing tools (including web-based and mobile for iOS and Android) geared for the typical consumer who is not a video expert. Our customers use their smartphone or video camera to capture special moments, but don't want to spend hours learning complex video editing software. They just want a simple, straightforward way to create stories with video.

Pixorial is a fast-moving company that focuses on working collaboratively to solve problems and meet marketplace demands. We hire people who are passionate about the future of digital video, who think creatively and strategically and are committed to being a leader in our field.

About this position

A Product Marketing Manager is an expert on Pixorial's platform, how it works, who uses it, and how it fits in the online video ecosphere.  He or she is responsible for planning, designing and positioning of Pixorial's products, including serving as a subject matter expert for development of collateral materials and documentation. The PMM is also responsible for defining pricing and promotional strategies.  He or she will also work closely with sales and marketing to ensure all customer satisfaction goals are met.

A successful candidate will possess first-rate analytic and strategic thinking skills and developing product requirements. The Product Marketing Manager will serve as the advocate for the customer to the development team, using market and customer discovery research to develop sensible, achievable product recommendations. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, the Product Marketing Manager will have a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Chief Executive Officer.

The Product Marketing Manager will also hold responsibility for working with existing and potential partners to develop contracts and implementation recommendations and plans. Experience with business development, including contract negotiation and review is highly desirable.

Overall, the Product Marketing Manager will focus on making Pixorial's online video platform world-class and the best possible solution for the general consumer market.

Requirements

Pixorial is looking for a Product Marketing Manager with the following skills: 

·       5+ years of product management experience for an online technology product or service. Direct experience with online video or photo products or database technology is highly desirable.

·       Experience developing and defining the product strategy and roadmap for a best in class technology solution. 

·       Possesses a deep understanding of the product process, including mining, organizing and surfacing customer feedback.

·       Experience planning and executing through the product lifecycle, including gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision and working closely with marketing, product development, sales and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction. 

·       Serve as the primary monitor and collector of competitive intelligence for the company. Maintain a competitive matrix comparing features and benefits.

·       B2B sales or sales engineering background within a technology environment, with an emphasis on determining revenue potential and possible integration challenges.

·       Strong passion and drive to make a difference and develop online video products that meet the ever-changing needs of a broad consumer audience. 

·       Experience working with B2B technology companies serving the Latin American market is a plus, but not required.

·       Bachelor's degree or combination of education and experience required.

Personal Qualities

·       Team player with a great attitude and a positive outlook on life (it's not all about work)

·       Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects in a fast paced environment

·       Ability to execute like a champ – knows how to prioritize and work with minimal supervision

·       Have sound business skills with excellent aptitude for technical details 

·       Be able to back up recommendations using data

·       Strong quantitative and analytical problem solving skills

·       Extreme detail orientation, especially when it comes to flyspecking prerelease products to ensure brand adherence and a consistent, highly polished consumer experience

·       Data oriented marketer adept at using all available tracking and measurement tools to surface actionable intelligence. Deep experience with   Google Analytics, email analytics, creating database reports and using reporting to develop action plans and priorities. Knows how to use data to back up recommendations

·       You're driven to solve tough and interesting problems

·       You want to see the results of your work first hand

·       You enjoy meeting customers and working to innovate solutions with them

·       You're hands on, action oriented, adaptable and you care about customers

·       You have demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products

·       Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority

Compensation

Pixorial offers a great package which includes: competitive salary; stock options; choice of medical plan; dental, vision and disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; a 401(K) plan; paid holidays and 2 weeks vacation. Pixorial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Sr. Manager, Acquisition Marketing DogVacay - Santa Monica, CA

Sr. Manager, Acquisition Marketing

DogVacay - Santa Monica, CA

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join an agile, entrepreneurial team and have a real impact. The Sr. Manager, Acquisition Marketing is responsible for growing new customer acquisition through SEM, Facebook PPC, Display and other channels. The right candidate will have a deep expertise in large-scale acquisition growth, optimization and analysis/reporting. This will be a very impactful and high-profile role within the organization.

 

Key responsibilities include:

• Manage all paid acquisition channels with a significant emphasis on SEM
• Own budget allocation to hit top and bottom-line growth targets
• Collaborate with data engineering and finance on reporting and analytical insights
• Lead creative and landing page testing to maximize ROI while maintaining brand consistency
• Manage relationships with traffic partners and tools, overseeing contract negotiation and technical/reporting integration
• Provide data and recommendations for marketing forecasting
• Lead multi-channel attribution modeling

Desired Skills and Experience

EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years online marketing experience
• 3+ years managing SEM campaigns at high volume(6-figures monthly)

EDUCATION: 

• BA/BS - preferably in a quantitative discipline

SKILLS/REQUIREMENTS:

• Superior quantitative/analytical skills and love of data
• Experience managing direct response campaigns to ROI, ROAS, CPA, CPL, CPI, etc.
• Experience managing app download campaigns
• Advanced skills in Excel, PowerPoint, Adwords/Bing interfaces and editors

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• You thrive in a fast-paced and constantly changing startup environment.
• You're amazing under pressure and you don't mind wearing a few different hats.
• You enjoy a variety of tasks and have no problem switching between projects throughout the day. 
• You're extremely detail-oriented.
• You're a strong verbal and written communicator and presenter.
• You're an analytical, resourceful, and creative problem-solver.
• You're a team player who is willing to do what it takes to support your co-workers.

About this company

WHAT IS DOGVACAY?

DogVacay is the largest and fastest growing online and mobile community of pet care providers. The company has over 20,000 vetted pet sitters across the U.S. and Canada. It's a safe, convenient, and superior way to make sure your best friend is in good care while you're away. All reservations include premium medical coverage, 24/7 customer support, and daily photo updates. Our sitters offer daycare, grooming, walking, and other services too.

DogVacay has booked millions of stays and racked up hundreds of thousands of 5-star reviews. The company has raised $47 million in funding from top-tier venture capitalist firms including Benchmark and Andreessen Horowitz.

 

We work in large, bright, dog-friendly office in the heart of Santa Monica just blocks from the beach. Our 90+ employees across Customer Care, Engineering, Product, Marketing, Operations, and Finance love playing with dogs at work every day! Our key investors include Benchmark Capital's Bill Gurley (Uber, Zillow, GrubHub) and Foundation Capital's Charles Moldow (Lending Club, Adroll). Founder and CEO is Aaron Hirschhorn, UCLA MBA and the first-ever DogVacay sitter.

Visit www.dogvacay.com/press to read hundreds of articles by leading publications: USA Today, NBC, Huffington Post, FOX, WSJ, ABC, Forbes, New York Post, Inc, The Economist, and others.

 

THE OPPORTUNITY

 

DogVacay is one of the fastest-growing tech companies, and the pioneer of an online marketplace where owners can find services for their pets. The company started with dog boarding and is expanding into other services. Pet care is a $15-billion industry.

WHY DOGVACAY?

• This is a full-time, permanent position with a highly competitive salary, and generous medical benefits.
• NEW, gorgeous office located blocks from the beach in sunny Santa Monica.
• Bring your well behaved dog to work with you!
• Free snacks, free drinks and catered lunch at least twice a week!

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Technical Product Manager DogVacay - Santa Monica, CA

Technical Product Manager

DogVacay - Santa Monica, CA

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join an agile, entrepreneurial team and have a real impact. The Technical Product Manager will oversee the development of internal tools that are used by our various customer care teams to drive our business. Our ideal candidate has both a technical and business background that will enable them to drive improved processes and the tools that support them. They have a strong ownership mentality, entrepreneurial spirit and drive to win this high growth category.

 

Key responsibilities include:

• This role will deep dive into the back office tools and existing processes to develop a roadmap that will drive operational efficiencies and ensure continued 5-star customer support.
• Prioritize roadmap items against business goals to ensure releases of key features that align with the customer care business unit.
• Develop wireframes and, if necessary, working prototypes of new tools and systems to work through processes and drive sign-off from key business stakeholders.
• Work hands on with the development team writing tickets and shepherding roadmap items through the dev queue.
• Collaborate with the care team on releases and develop training materials for roll-outs.
• Develop key business metrics with the data engineering team and report to key business stakeholders including the executive team on business improvements via the new tools and processes.
• Oversee the entire process from requirements gathering through implementation of building out integrations with 3rd party systems like ZenDesk and our Phone systems. 

Desired Skills and Experience

• 4+ years of experience in technical product management, including documenting and delivering internal web applications for back office systems.
• 2+ years of experience in business process re-engineering to streamline existing operational processes.
• B.A. or B.S. degree in Business/CS/MIS/Other relevant majors or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated success managing teams and processes to targets operational inefficiencies.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience in pet services, consumer internet or high growth startups is a plus
• A balance between big vision and practical planning. You've got the skills to balance big projects and tight roadmaps with ease.
• Analysis.  We don't just build tools, we monitor and optimize them based on data and other key performance metrics.  So be ready to bring your game to analytics reporting.
• The ability to keep up with tech.  We're an agile shop and we work with the best engineers in Silicon Beach.  Your requirements and user stories should not only be technically literate, but get our engineers fired up to tackle them.
• Wireframes and prototypes. You have hands-on experience with tools like Balsamiq, Axure, Sketch, Invision, UXPIN.
• Process Flows. You have experience developing process flows that represent existing and proposed processes with tools like Gliffy, Visio

About You:

• You love both dogs and people and understand what it takes to deliver a great customer service experience.
• You thrive in a fast-paced and constantly changing start-up environment.
• You're amazing under pressure and you don't mind wearing a few different hats.
• You enjoy a variety of tasks and don't mind switching between projects throughout the day. 
• You are extremely detail oriented and can effectively identify inefficiencies. 
• You are a strong verbal and written communicator and can effectively communicate to all levels in the organization.
• You are analytical, resourceful and a creative problem solver.
• You are a team player who is willing to do what it takes to support your co-workers

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Bioinformatics Scientist University of Connecticut - Hartford, Connecticut Area

Bioinformatics Scientist

University of Connecticut - Hartford, Connecticut Area

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY
The University of Connecticut seeks a Bioinformatics Scientist to serve faculty, researchers, and graduate students on the main UConn campus and the UCHC within the Center for Genome Innovation housed in the cross-campus Institute for Systems Genomics (isg.uconn.edu). We are seeking applications from dynamic, motivated individuals interested in providing computational biology and statistical expertise to help develop and analyze a variety of projects. The Bioinformatics Scientist will work closely with members of the Center for Genome Innovation (sequencing core facility) to support investigators as they design their experiments, particularly those that involve next-generation sequencing data. The user base of the CGI is broad, and the successful candidate can expect to work on a diverse array of problems in a range of systems (both model and non-model organisms).

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The successful candidate will provide consultation to faculty, researchers, and graduate students on the use of specific computing tools for solving a broad range of problems in biology, interface with biologists and computer scientists, and maintain web and tutorial resources. They will have an excellent command of verbal and written communication to facilitate the dissemination of results through presentations, reports, and scientific publications. They will stay informed on the latest software tools and test these for possible integration into existing analysis pipelines.

APPOINTMENT TERMS
Candidates with commensurate experience will be considered at the more advanced Academic Assistant 3 classification. This is a non-tenure track, annual 11-month appointment. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications.MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
M.S. with two or more years' post M.S. work experience or Ph.D. in bioinformatics or a related area; direct experience or equivalent skills to design experiments and analyze data from studies focused on: RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, RAD-Seq, metagenomics, genome assembly, variant detection, and/or phylogenetics. Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (Perl or Python) as well as fluency in Unix and comfort in high performance computing environments is expected. Excellent project management and organization skills required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Solid foundation in statistics as well as software development is desired. Expertise in R/Bioconductor is desired.

About this company

The University of Connecticut (UConn) is one of America's top research universities. It is home to more than 30,000 students, 1,300 faculty, 214,000 proud alumni, and a handsome husky named Jonathan.

The University has fourteen schools and colleges: Agriculture and Natural Resources, Business, Dental Medicine, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Law, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work. Students can choose from eight undergraduate bachelor's degrees with 102 possible majors, as well as seventeen graduate/doctoral degrees and five professional degree programs (MD, JD, etc.).

UConn's main campus in Storrs is admitting the highest-achieving freshmen in University history. Student diversity continues to increase, as does the number of honors students, valedictorians and salutatorians who consistently make UConn their top choice. It's a great time to be a Husky!

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