Resume

Benjamin Waters

watersbenw@gmail.com – 317-696-5607 – New York, NY 10010

Summary

Experienced team leader with a consistent track record building robust analytics programs for global brands.  Adept at extracting value from large databases to deliver actionable insights and recommendations.


Professional Experience

Analytic Partners – Director of Analytics and Strategy

Financial Services Clients

  • Owned executive level marketing mix presentations for the CMO of a multibillion-dollar payment services business
  • Identified more than $20MM in revenue opportunities on $135MM marketing spend, including reducing TV costs by 50% and reinvesting $10MM from inefficient digital display to paid social
  • Devised a customized brand health machine learning solution to illuminate the impacts of messaging on brand metrics and to quantify long-term ROI multipliers to build messaging roadmap for optimizing marketing campaigns
  • Authored SQL program to translate zip code level transaction detail to regional aggregates in three countries improving model robustness and saving six weeks of data processing time annually

Retail Clients

  • Engineered a three-year vision to drive analytics adoption for a billion-dollar durable goods manufacturer successfully expanding modeling coverage from 5% of the business to 95% including all retail sales channels
  • Uncovered and rectified a 5% revenue decline related to shifts in rebate strategy
  • Coordinated a retail marketing mix program integrating brick-and-mortar and ecommerce channels for seven distinct women’s apparel brands to identify $50MM in savings opportunities

Consumer Package Goods Clients

  • Achieved a marketing ROI improvement of 25% over three years for a large CPG food brand
  • Built a digital attribution tool for a greeting card brand to highlight customer segmentation opportunities
  • Persuaded a billion-dollar CPG candy manufacturer to cancel $6MM overspend on cinema marketing

Team Lead / Managerial Responsibilities

  • Orchestrated 3-4 simultaneous client engagements including staffing, timelines, experimental design, proposal development, insights, quality control, software integration, and client presentations
  • Hired and managed a team of 3-5 analysts and consultants with 1-5 years of experience; directed performance, career growth, talent management, and communication skills
  • Developed and led training programs for 30+ new hires annually in data science and communication
  • Maintained best-in-class analyst retention and revenue per team member
  • Generated $250k-$450k incremental revenue annually through upsell with existing clients
  • Collaborated with software engineers to fix critical bugs in product back end to incorporate diminishing returns algorithms into media planning simulations tool

2007 – 2019
New York, NY


Political Experience

Janos Marton for District Attorney – Treasurer / Finance Director

Role and Responsibilities

  • Created analytical frameworks to identify fundraising opportunities, conduct competitive analysis, and measure event performance; filed campaign finance contributions and expense disclosures with the NY State Board of Elections
  • Coordinating contact segmentation system and contribution attribution from digital events
  • Delivering weekly contributions reports and metrics tracking to the campaign team
  • Coaching junior team members on data tracking methods and project organization

2019 – Present
New York, NY


Music and Entertainment

Midnight Spin – Manager and Performer

Responsibilities and Achievements

  • Manager and bass player for Brooklyn-based indie/alt rock band, Midnight Spin
  • Coordinated marketing campaign and release for debut record Don’t Let Me Sleep including an 85-date US National tour, college radio campaign, PR, merchandise, website, and digital distribution
  • Achieved high profile TV placements including the NFL, NBC’s The Voice, ESPN and MTV
  • More than 300 performances in the US and UK including the SXSW and CMJ festivals
  • Produced five music videos and live concert videos at Brooklyn Bowl and Arlene’s Grocery

2008 – 2014
Brooklyn, NY


Education

Dartmouth College
BA: Psychology and Economics

  • Relevant Coursework: Statistics, Econometrics
  • President Dartmouth Programming Board
  • Student Assembly, Class of 2006 Senior Executive Committee
  • French Tutor / Study Abroad in Lyon, France

Hanover, NH


Skills

  • Marketing Mix Modeling | Machine Learning | Simulations and Forecasting | Experimental Design | Strategy Consulting | Visual Storytelling | Excel, PowerPoint, SPSS, SQL, R, Python, Tableau | French conversant, Spanish literate | Musician

Featured Projects

Data projects and visualization by Ben Waters

COVID-19 USA Interactive Dashboard

Interactive Dashboard powered by Tableau

This digital Dashboard provides daily updates to the spread of COVID-19 in the United States. Drill-down capabilities provide flexible views down to the county level, and advanced filters make zooming in on a target area easy.

With additional map overlays from the US Office of Management and Budget and CDC by Metropolitan Statistical Area (by city) and Metropolitan Density, deeper insights are seamlessly integrated.

COVID-19 Global Dashboard

Interactive Dashboard powered by Tableau

This tool provides the user with a much more flexible range of options to compare pandemic outcomes by continent, region, and country.

This dashboard also provides map overlays based on different geographies, locations, and UN country designations including Developing, Least Developed, and Small Island Developing.

Janos Marton for DA Fundraising Dashboard

Interactive Dashboard Powered by Tableau

As Treasurer and Finance Director of the Janos Marton for District Attorney of Manhattan campaign. It is my responsibility to track, review, and share all campaign finance contributions and expenditures.

Transparency and accuracy are critical, and with thousands of donations registered, having this information on-demand provides more time for thoughtful analysis.

Simulating Diminishing Returns

Interactive Dashboard powered by Tableau

This tool provides a visual representation of different iterations of the diminishing returns function. The modeler can adjust Adstock and the two constants in the quadratic equation using the parameter controls.

With this tool, the modeler can familiarize herself with all the potential outcomes of her modeling test and easily eliminate iterations that are impossible while gaining the ability to predict ROI at different activity levels.