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Director, Data Strategy

Engineering · United Kingdom

Job description

Brainlabs is a digital media agency – we’re passionate about using data and tech to craft marketing strategies that drive real business results for clients. Our 1000+ Brainlabbers partner with some of the world’s largest advertisers to do just that. 

Our mission is simple, we want to become the world’s largest independent media agency, famous for delivering high performance and accelerating the careers of Brainlabbers whilst we’re at it.

Brainlabs has always been a culture-first company. In fact, from the very beginnings of the agency a set of shared principles, philosophies and values was documented in The Brainlabs Handbook, helping us create our unique culture.

As with everything here we always seek to adapt and improve so The Brainlabs Handbook has been fine-tuned to become The Brainlabs Culture Code.

This Culture Code consists of 12 codes that talk to what it means to be a Brainlabber. It’s a joint commitment to continuous development and creating a company that we can all be proud of, where Brainlabbers can turn up to do great work, make great friends and win together.

You can read The Brainlabs Culture Code in full here.

Director, Data Strategy

Classification: Full time

Team: Data Services

Location: London

Our goal is for our clients to view us as their most sophisticated data and marketing partner and you will be responsible for driving data strategies for the clients within your Hive, including privacy and 1PD strategies. The focus of this role is therefore to ensure that we build and deliver solutions to solve our clients’  business challenges and deliver real business growth by creating data strategies utilising new and existing data products.

What you do:

  • Implement client KPI frameworks and measurement plans for full-funnel media execution, working symbiotically with the wider strategy and planning team. 
  • Collaborate with our media execution teams to deliver insightful media testing frameworks.
  • Map our clients on a data maturity framework and propose strategies to enhance client maturity.
  • Drive adoption and champion usage of technology (AdTech, MarTech and Brainlabs proprietary Tech).
  • Create first party data (1PD) strategies for our clients and unlock access to this data for media execution
  • You’ll contribute to the UK growth and product strategy, helping to shape the future direction of the Data Strategy team and wider strategy and planning team.

Who you are:

  • 6+ years' experience in a senior Data Science, Data Strategy or Technology Solutions role and leading projects.
  • Proven data strategy and measurement framework capabilities on leading clients, ideally multi-market. 
  • Client-facing experience and commercial acumen.
  • Strong understanding of hypothesis testing and measurement methodologies such as frequentist and bayesian approaches, or a strong statistical knowledge and data analysis skills
  • A confident communicator, with the ability to command a room and captivate through data-led story-telling. Be able to create the ‘A-Ha!’ moment for client strategies from broad data sets.

How you succeed:

  • You will live our culture code every day!
  • Annual data revenue target met, demonstrating YoY growth for your Client Hives
  • Exceptional client leadership; 7+ TRR scores or CSAT on accounts you regularly work with
  • Strong collaboration and leadership feedback internally and from clients
  • Work with different functions, clients and client teams to identify challenges, design and sell solutions and deliver them with your team
  • Strong collaboration with our India Data Hub and wider Data Services and client teams to lead and deliver data projects
  • Understand the opportunities that data has to solve the day to day challenges our clients face.

Brainlabs is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace: we are committed to equal opportunity for all applicants and employees regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the application process, please let us know!

Please note that we will never ask you to transfer cash or make any other payment to us in order to apply for a role or to work for Brainlabs. Any such asks are fraudulent and should be reported to the appropriate authorities in your area.

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