AddressCompany Description
Are you ready to be a big part of something big?
At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 25 years we've been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow.
When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership.
Not something you'd expect from one of the country's biggest tech companies, is it?
And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle - Office, Hybrid or Anywhere.
What's on offer:
- A place where you can move your career forward, where you'll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world.
- We're proud to be recognised as one of Australia's Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work, an AFR BOSS Best Place to Work, a Family Friendly Workplace, and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
- The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that's you'll actually have face time with.
- 22 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.
What you'll do:
Carsales Data function is embarking on the next phase of its transformation. We are seeking an experienced leader who thrives at the intersection of analytics, Media and Martech, and human behavioral change.
In this pivotal role, you will be a key leader within the Data function, bringing best-in-industry analytical expertise in partnering with our Media function whose opportunities are amongst the fastest growing in the business.
- Bring best-in-breed expertise to advance our analytical solutions (e.g. in attribution, MMM, cross-site performance optimisation) that enables carsales' Media division's continued market leadership against a backdrop of evolving market conditions
- Define carsales' Media team's analytical approaches underpinning performance and product reporting, data commercialisation, data-enabled client partnerships and sales enablement
- Contribute to the medium-term (~3-12 month) plans in Media and breaks these down into quarterly OKRs that can be executed by smaller teams
- Build relationships across Data, Media, Product and Technology to deliver on decision-support and data commercialisation initiative
- Where necessary accelerates the end-to-end delivery and lifecycle of complex solution
- Providing craft leadership to analytics specialists
Qualifications
What are we looking for?
- Inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect with our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don't take ourselves too seriously)
- Models an all-of-business ownership mindset over siloed success; leading with high levels of personal integrity and accountability
- Experienced managing complex trade-offs between business stakeholder needs and technical objectives, and a willingness to engage in conversations between groups
- Experiences leading teams of 3-5 data specialists that deliver cross-functional work with business and technology teams
- Well versed in the application of quantitative methods within Media and Marketing analytics supported by a High degree of organisation and practical execution disciplines
- Skilled in two or more programming languages of their area of specialisation -- e.g. SQL, Python, Java, Scala and experience with cloud data platforms and analytic tools including - Snowflake, dbt, Thoughtspot, Tableau
Additional Information
A few other things we want to let you know about...
carsales is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you're a candidate with a disability or you'll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process - if you want to know more just ask.
We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.
Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.
So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.
