(Senior) Data Manager (m/f/d)

The Data team at Axel Springer is seeking a (Senior) Data Manager to drive data-driven growth for one of Germany's largest media houses. This role involves pioneering a holistic data strategy, maximizing customer value, and working at the intersection of business, tech, and law. The manager will be a key contact for stakeholders, support data strategy development, identify new business approaches through partnerships, and lead data-driven projects to enhance marketing and revenue.

Must Have

• Act as a contact person for internal stakeholders, customers, and partners focusing on data and technologies.
• Support the development and implementation of a group-wide data strategy.
• Identify and implement new business support approaches through partnerships.
• Design data-driven processes and lead cooperation projects with internal and external partners.
• Work on Media Impact's data-driven marketing strategy to increase reach and revenue.
• Prepare product and management presentations and decision documents for strategic control.
• Bring several years of experience in technical online marketing or marketing with a focus on programmatic, ad serving, or data-driven business models.
• Demonstrate strong technical understanding and knowledge of SSPs, DSPs, CDPs, or DMPs.
• Confidently interpret KPIs and dashboards for data-based decision making.

Perks & Benefits

• Choose from a variety of discounts: Deutschlandticket, Wellhub (gyms, courses, and personal trainers), and various online shops.
• Exceptional campus in the heart of Berlin with modern office spaces, co-working space, and Berlin's coolest rooftop terrace.
• Free food offer: in addition to a breakfast snack, there is also a free lunch in one of our employee restaurants.
• Never stop learning! Use our diverse learning content and offers for your personal development.
• Collaboration thrives on direct exchange – we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile work.

We are the Data team. Our goal is to pioneer as a marketer with a centralized, holistic data strategy and thereby maximize value for our customers. Do you want to drive the data-driven growth of one of the largest German media houses? Are you fascinated by working at the interface between business, tech, and law? Do you act entrepreneurially and love innovations? Then you are exactly right with us – we look forward to your application!

We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies. Our five Essentials are the values that connect us and our compass in our commitment to freedom.

What you will move with us:

• Take on the role as a contact person for internal stakeholders, customers, and partners with a focus on data and technologies.
• Support the development of a group-wide data strategy and strengthen its implementation.
• Identify new approaches to support the business through partnerships and promote their implementation.
• Design data-driven processes and lead cooperation projects with internal and external partners.
• Work on Media Impact's data-driven marketing strategy to increase reach and revenue.
• Prepare product and management presentations as well as decision documents for strategic control.

What you bring:

• Bring several years of experience in technical online marketing or marketing with a focus on programmatic, ad serving, or data-driven business models.
• Show strong technical understanding and know the functionalities of SSPs, DSPs, CDPs, or DMPs.
• Confidently interpret KPIs and dashboards to make data-based decisions.
• Think entrepreneurially and evaluate topics from different perspectives.
• Work structured and quickly acquire complex contexts.
• Communicate confidently in German and English to convince stakeholders at all levels.

What we offer:

• Choose from a variety of discounts: Deutschlandticket, Wellhub (gyms, courses, and personal trainers), and various online shops.
• Exceptional campus in the heart of Berlin with modern office spaces, co-working space, and Berlin's coolest rooftop terrace.
• Free food offer: in addition to a breakfast snack, there is also a free lunch in one of our employee restaurants.
• Never stop learning! Use our diverse learning content and offers for your personal development.
• Collaboration thrives on direct exchange – we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile work.
• We offer you an immediate permanent position in full-time or part-time.

Media Impact GmbH & Co. KG – as a marketer for Axel Springer and selected clients, we work passionately every day to offer our customers the optimal stage for their advertising message. For this, we use the cross-media power of Axel Springer brands such as BILD, Welt, and Business Insider. We combine these quality reaches with intelligent technology and creative solutions for maximum advertising impact for our customers. Innovative event formats refine our 360-degree marketing. Together with our cooperation partner Ad Alliance, we reach up to 90% of Germans in print and digital.

Questions and answers about the application process

The most frequent questions and answers can be found in our FAQs: career.axelspringer.com/de/faq

To facilitate readability, we limit ourselves to masculine designations in the text. Nevertheless, diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We welcome all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, worldview, disability, age, and sexual orientation and identity.

Information on the severely disabled representation at Axel Springer can be found here: career.axelspringer.com/de/ksbv

Contact person for this position (reference number REF2623B) is: Florian Jänchen #LI-FJ1