About the Role
As a Data & Analytics Manager - Retail Media within Publicis Groupe Japan, you will lead the development and delivery of our Retail Media and commerce analytics capabilities, helping clients drive measurable revenue growth across eCommerce platforms such as Amazon. This is a player-coach role that combines hands-on analytics, client leadership, project ownership, and people management. You will use Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC), retail media, advertising, and commerce data to develop advanced measurement solutions, uncover growth opportunities, and translate complex analyses into clear business and media recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Lead Retail Media and commerce analytics projects across clients, ensuring high-quality, timely, and actionable deliverables.
- Act as the primary client-facing analytics lead, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and proactively identifying opportunities to drive business growth.
- Design custom analyses using Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC), combining advertising exposure, audience, and retail data to answer complex business questions.
- Remain hands-on with SQL, Python, and visualization tools while reviewing the team’s methodologies, queries, dashboards, and analytical outputs for accuracy and business relevance.
- Translate analytical findings into clear recommendations for media strategy, audience targeting, budget allocation, customer acquisition, retention, and retail growth.
Requirements
- Experience managing analysts or leading complex analytical projects across multiple clients, stakeholders, or workstreams.
- Strong experience in Retail Media, eCommerce, digital advertising, or commerce analytics; experience with Amazon Marketing Cloud or other Retail Media Networks is strongly preferred.
- Strong hands-on expertise in SQL and applied experience with Python or R for data processing, automation, statistical analysis, and reproducible workflows.
- Experience guiding advanced analytical approaches such as audience analysis, customer journey measurement, incrementality, attribution, predictive modeling, propensity, or customer lifetime value.
- Strong client-facing and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex analyses into clear strategies and recommendations for senior, non-technical stakeholders.
- Business-level Japanese, both spoken and written.
- Demonstrates AI fluency, including the ability to leverage AI tools to enhance work quality and productivity, critically evaluate outputs, and apply ethical and responsible judgment in their use.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- R
- Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC)
- Retail Media Networks
- Data Visualization
- Data Governance
- AI Tools
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Flexible
Experience Level
- Manager
Benefits
- Extensive Learning & Development opportunities
- Work Your World program (work from anywhere globally for up to six weeks per year)
- Culture of open feedback and continuous growth
- Structured Career Conversations
- 360° Feedback framework
- Comprehensive rewards offering
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Well-being support
- Access to Marcel, our global AI platform
- Wide range of leave policies
- Employee communities and clubs
About the Company
- Publicis Groupe is a platform for talent, connected to a global network of knowledge, people, and resources.
- We are one of the world's largest communications groups, present in over 100 countries as leaders in marketing, communication, and digital business transformation.
- Founded in Paris in 1926, we have over 90,000 brilliant minds with expertise in data, technology, media, creativity, and business transformation.
Equal Opportunity
- Publicis Groupe believes that our people are our greatest asset. Our people are selected for their skill sets, ethics, and professional qualities, without any exclusion, preferential treatment, or discrimination.
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on age, gender, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, disability, or any other difference.
- We encourage applications from all qualified individuals and will provide appropriate assistance for candidates who may need other considerations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process upon request.
