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Director - Data Management & Visualisation - Media Agency
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Director - Data Management & Visualisation
Location: London
Work Model: Hybrid (3 days per week)
Salary: Up to £75,000 + benefits
About the Role
This is a high-profile Director opportunity within one of the world's leading media agencies, leading data governance and visualisation across a complex EMEA client. Rather than being hands-on in dashboards every day, you'll be the strategic bridge between senior stakeholders and technical delivery teams, ensuring data solutions are scalable, accurate, and commercially valuable.
Why this role?
- Lead data management and visualisation across a major multinational consumer brand spanning multiple EMEA markets
- Highly visible client-facing role partnering with senior stakeholders to translate business challenges into scalable data solutions
- Manage a Senior Manager plus an offshore team, while working alongside a dedicated engineering function responsible for data pipelines
- Drive data governance, taxonomy, quality standards, and reporting best practice across a complex regional ecosystem
- Play a key role in improving processes, automation, and AI-enabled initiatives that enhance analytics delivery
- Join a well-established, collaborative analytics and data function with genuine strategic influence across the client account
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The role
- Act as the senior client lead across data governance, reporting, and BI initiatives
- Gather and translate business requirements into practical, scalable data solutions
- Oversee the delivery of dashboards, reporting, and governance frameworks while ensuring high-quality outputs
- Champion governance, taxonomy management, and data quality standards across multiple teams and markets
- Work closely with media, operations, engineering, and analytics teams to ensure consistent data processes and compliance
- Lead project delivery, documentation, QA, and continuous improvement initiatives across the account
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Skills & experience
- Proven experience leading data governance, BI, or data management programs within a media agency (ideally) consultancy or digital environment
- Strong stakeholder management with the ability to communicate confidently with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience translating business requirements into data and reporting solutions
- Previous leadership experience managing both direct reports and offshore or distributed teams
- Knowledge of taxonomy management, governance frameworks, and data quality processes
- Experience with Power BI or similar visualisation platforms (Tableau etc.)
- Understanding of media data, reporting infrastructure, and analytics environments
- Exposure to SQL, Python, or APIs would be advantageous but isn't the core focus of the role
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