Marketing Automation Analyst

Career Area: Marketing and Public Relations

Occupation Group: Marketing Specialists

Salary

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A typical Marketing Automation Analyst earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $67,854

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $70,224

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Assists with collecting, analyzing, developing, and implementing various marketing business systems that leverages internal data to drive additional revenue opportunities, including CRM and POS systems. The person in this role will use this aggregated data to drive demand generation for various markets, segments, and micro-segments.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Marketing Automation Analyst is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Detail-Oriented: A detail oriented person is someone who pays attention to the details and can make a conscious effort to understand causes instead of just the effects, and that does this in a second nature type of way.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Salesforce: Salesforce provides companies with an interface for case management and task management, and a system for automatically routing and escalating important events.
• Marketing: Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships.
• Sales: Experience selling products or services to consumers.
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Experience analysing data about customers' history with a company to improve business relationships with customers, specifically focusing on customer retention and ultimately driving sales growth.
• Operations Analysis: Definition of operations analysis: the systematic examination of a tactic or other military procedure usually by mathematical and statistical methods to determine its efficiency and to devise or indicate possible improvements

Distinguishing Skills

Any Marketing Automation Analyst that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• HubSpot: HubSpot is a developer and marketer of software products for inbound marketing and sales.
• Salesforce Marketing Cloud: Working experience of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, which is a customer relationship management (CRM) platform for marketers that allows them to create and manage marketing relationships and campaigns with customers.
• Pardot: Working experience of Pardot. Pardot is a lead marketing automation system that allows you to reach potential clients through a number of means, i.e. email campaigns, social media and paid marketing, to name a few.
• Eloqua: Working experience of Eloqua, which is a marketing automation platform (MAP), now owned by Oracle. This software is used by marketers, primarily B2B marketers, to help automate the lead generation process. Eloqua and it s ilk all have a database which stores prospect and customer information, an emailer which sends email to prospects and customers, and a website monitoring system which tracks prospect and customer activity on websites under control of the marketer.
• Sales Analytics: Sales analytics is the process used to identify, model, understand and predict sales trends and sales results while helping in the understanding of these trends and finding improvement points.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Sales Operations Analyst
• Business Development Associate
• Marketing Operations Specialist
• Marketing Analyst
• Senior Sales Operations Analyst

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