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MARCUS A. MURPHREE

Chicago,IL

Summary

Strong leader and proven problem-solver with analytical skills that provide context and insights to a variety of verticals, which consistently increase ROI and bottom line revenue.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Associate Director, Analytics Strategy

American Hospital Association
Chicago, IL
08.2019 - Current

Digital analytics lead for the country's largest hospital-centric nonprofit, comprised of more than 4,400 member organizations. Utilized multiple data visualization and business intelligence tools to ideate, report and improve upon KPIs for various business units.

  • Managed multiple marketing campaigns with a goal of achieving at least 200% RoAS in a variety of health care verticals.
  • Mapped and cross-referenced multiple nine-figure financial data sets to address revenue shortfalls and bad spend, ultimately growing bottom line non-dues revenue for the association.
  • Developed robust web and marketing automation reports to isolate deliverability issues and more-than double email open rates.
  • Centralized varied data sources to produce clear, actionable results, benchmarks and reporting for executive management groups, highlighted by C-suite appointment to association's Member Health Index team.
  • Used Google Tag Manager in concert with various automation tools to analyze conversion rates across multiple digital channels.
  • Identified and monitored KPIs for new and existing digital initiatives through SEO, social media and native analytics tools to grow web traffic by 25 percent.
  • Designed overall media campaign objectives, defining project goals and outlining technology limitations and improvements.
  • Highlighted goals and key metrics from digital campaigns through real-time dashboards via Google Data Studio, Tableau and Excel.
  • Created innovative accurate QR Code tracking schemas to increase attribution of mobile-first marketing efforts and increase digital conversions.

Conversion Rate Optimization Specialist

GoHealth Inc. (GOCO)
Chicago, IL
05.2018 - 07.2019

In a collaborative effort with UI/UX teams, revamped the organic health insurance lead generation pipeline for the electronic insurance brokerage while increasing online-only policy sales by 15 percent year-over-year.

  • Increased organic search lead generation by more than 30 percent in B2C environment.
  • Created online and offline blended attribution models to accurately track sales across complex multi-channel funnels. Reporting constructs blended Splunk logs, SQL queries, Excel pivot tables and Google Analytics custom reports.
  • Organized years of mismatched data from multiple sources into easily accessible historic set of financial tables, which were used by business operations teams for paid advertising tactics.
  • Constructed custom UTM tagging system to effectively and accurately track advertorial and paid media campaigns.

Digital Media Account Director

Conroy Media Ltd
Willowbrook, IL
02.2017 - 05.2018

Account lead for programmatic digital display advertising campaigns for a variety of healthcare, education and high-end retail clients. Duties included providing data analysis, strategy and technology troubleshooting for future paid media goals.

  • Utilized DoubleClick Bid Manager platform to manage affinity and geographic-based campaigns for various health care clients reaching nearly $1 million in ad spend annually.
  • Created attribution pathways to integrate Interactive Voice Response call center details with Google AdWords campaign reports for premium optimizations.

Digital Analytics Consultant

American Veterinary Medical Association
Schaumburg, IL
06.2016 - 12.2016

Restructured Google Analytics framework for AVMA's marketing and communications teams to determine actionable data and KPIs for future branding campaigns.

  • Increased mobile membership renewals by 50 percent by utilizing audience behavior metrics to create optimized registration forms.

Digital and Web Strategist

University of Dallas
Irving, TX
01.2015 - 04.2016

Webmaster and digital marketing strategist for the University of Dallas with a focus on increasing graduate student enrollment.

  • Championed redevelopment, redesign and relaunch of university website.
  • Combined Google Analytics site metrics with Pardot CRM data to find holistic measurement of enrollment prospects.

Editor and Digital Producer

The Dallas Morning News
Dallas, TX
06.2008 - 01.2015

Organized and produced print and online content from staff and user-submitted sources covering news and sports Dallas-Fort Worth area.

  • Incorporated analytics programs including Adobe Omniture, Chartbeat and Visual Revenue to evaluate content performance in real time
  • Leveraged audience analytics to create multimedia sponsored content for a $100,000 inaugural College Football Playoff ad adjacency
  • Mastered print and digital content management systems, notably CCI NewsGate and Escenic
  • Managed team of five reporters and oversaw large-scale news projects for 11 hyper-local editions of The Dallas Morning News' community-centric print portfolio

Education

Fellowship - Digital Media

Newspaper Association of America
Arlington
2012

Bachelor of Science - News/Editorial Journalism; Geology Minor

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas
2008

Skills

  • Certifications: Google Analytics IQ, Google Tag Manager, Google AdWords, DoubleClick Bid Manager, Harvard ManageMentor Leadership Development Program
  • Analytics Expertise: Google Analytics 4 (GA4), Firebase, Hotjar, Adobe Omniture, Heap, Chartbeat, Visual Revenue, Google Search Console
  • Business Intelligence Tools: Looker Studio, Tableau, Excel
  • Publishing Styles: Associated Press Stylebook
  • Social Media Monitoring: Socialbakers, Hootsuite, Facebook Business Manager
  • Content Management Systems: Wordpress, OmniUpdate, Escenic, NewsGate CCI, Drupal
  • Marketing Automation: Higher Logic, Marketo, Hubspot, SalesForce Pardot, Unbounce
  • Code Languages: CSS, PHP, Google RegEx and HTML

Timeline

Senior Associate Director, Analytics Strategy

American Hospital Association
08.2019 - Current

Conversion Rate Optimization Specialist

GoHealth Inc. (GOCO)
05.2018 - 07.2019

Digital Media Account Director

Conroy Media Ltd
02.2017 - 05.2018

Digital Analytics Consultant

American Veterinary Medical Association
06.2016 - 12.2016

Digital and Web Strategist

University of Dallas
01.2015 - 04.2016

Editor and Digital Producer

The Dallas Morning News
06.2008 - 01.2015

Fellowship - Digital Media

Newspaper Association of America

Bachelor of Science - News/Editorial Journalism; Geology Minor

Texas Christian University