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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
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)
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
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
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
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
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