VP, Analytics Solutions Director
Merkle
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support opportunity creation e.g. participating in credentials and chemistry sessions, c-suite engagement, deal qualification and initial revenue forecasting.
- Help create an engagement strategy for qualified opportunities e.g. contribution to a pursuit plan and development of solution requirements and client roadmaps.
- Simplify and help package up our services to make us easier to buy e.g. requirements analysis, solution architecture, proposal development, cost optimisation and right-shoring.
- Bring our offer and capabilities to life for different partners through storytelling to demonstrate the value and influence of analytics. This includes having a voice on the right profile and casting needed to pitch and run follow-up sessions.
- Remove solution barriers to closing deals e.g. cost optimisation, commercial innovation, stakeholder engagement.
- Align and work with all partners to finalise scopes of work and mobilise the necessary teams including the drafting up of SoWs and defining the service orchestration and programme set-up.
- Directly responsible for a small team of analytics consultants, they will be inspiring and someone, able to develop top- tier talent.
- Lead teams to deliver pioneering projects around new and innovative analytics capabilities, being both an internal and external change maker focus on growing analytics advocacy across all areas of dentsu UK.
- Work with our clients in an advisory capacity to help them create and accelerate value from their data and analytics investments.
- Supported opportunity value and conversion.
- Successful client onboarding and outcomes delivered in first twelve months.
- Marketable success stories.
- Develop sales-plays and connected propositions working in partnership with practices and capabilities.
- Sell between services and expansion of opportunities.
- +10 years' experience in all things related to marketing analytics including advanced data analytics, digital analytics, media measurement, campaign and performance analytics plus data engineering.
- A compelling and credible subject matter expert with familiarity on the use of 1P, 2P and 3P data with geo-demographic and media panel data to guide client outcomes.
- Someone with experience creating, sharing, and presenting thought-leadership.
- Motivated by achieving commercial outcomes for Merkle and our clients, with an ability to evaluate and take acceptable risks to inspire and bring innovation to market.
- Collaborative with networking and relationship skills and the ability to win people's trust.
- A credible and inclusive leader who can map out and define complex analytics and data requirements.
- C-suite experience, with a Board Level presence and ability to collaborate with CMO's, Heads of Digital Marketing, Data and Analytics and with more functional leaders within organisations.
- You'll have a great compensation package, private health & dental insurance, corporate discounts and career development through dentsu University, and free access to LinkedIn learning
- 29+ days of annual leave (25 days of regular holidays, Birthdays off and 3 additional wellness days) We also offer the opportunity to volunteer for up to 2 days per year and tend to close down the agency between Christmas and New Years
- You'll have a hybrid working schedule, with flexible start/end hours