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About the Role

Microsoft Advertising is seeking a Head of Analytical Leads to lead a team that turns data into measurable business impact. You will manage analytical leads across EMEA, delivering insights and recommendations to improve client performance and unlock investment opportunities. The role requires strong people leadership, analytical and consulting skills, and a proactive mindset to influence senior decision-makers through data-driven narratives.

Responsibilities

Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
Ensure team members evaluate data sufficiency, drive accountability for data quality issue resolution, and encourage cross-team collaboration for data pipelines.
Leverage data, analyses, and learnings to articulate industry- and client-relevant stories and insights.
Build best practices for team members to apply expertise across client and business analytical needs.
Guide and coach team members through complex analyses, interpretation of results, and actionable recommendations.
Supervise team's data analyses, feedback, and ensure recommendations are accessible and understood by stakeholders.
Contribute knowledge across the team in data privacy and governance rules and regulations.
Guide the team to develop and implement methods for systematic efficiencies in analytics and reporting.
Coach team in guiding optimal and innovative methods for operationalizing, sharing, and scaling insights.
Establish and leverage strategic working relationships within and across internal and client teams.
Guide own and team's actions across networks of peers and client stakeholders.
Share expertise on industry vertical, clients, and competitors across teams.
Provide guidance on developing and delivering compelling client-facing presentations of analyses, reports, and data visualizations.
Synthesize insights into a story to influence leadership and senior stakeholders' decision-making.
Advance understanding of clients' business knowledge, including industry trends, value propositions, and competitive landscape.
Identify the appropriate scope and impact to develop solutions and build connections with client leadership.

Requirements

Experience in statistics, mathematics, analytics, data science, data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, business and financial analysis, or related field OR equivalent experience.
Experience using tools such as PowerBI/Tableau, DAX, R, SQL for data manipulation and visualization on large datasets.
People management experience.
Effective in communicating complex analyses to a mix of both technical and non-technical partners and clients.
Experience utilizing analytical tools to turn massive, dynamic datasets into actionable insights.
Experience pairing data visualization with storytelling to deliver persuasive presentations that influence varying audience levels.
Experience conducting, interpreting, and clearly communicating measurement analyses (e.g., incrementality, attribution, lift studies) to inform client decisions.
Experience and proficiency using PowerBI/Tableau, DAX, SQL for data manipulation and visualization.
Working knowledge and familiarity in a combination of the following data manipulation and visualization tools is a plus: Python, R, PowerPivot, Microsoft Advertising API.
Solid knowledge of statistics, predictive modeling and data clustering/classification techniques.
Experience in a partner or account management/client service/client-facing role.
Experience in EMEA market.
Experience in digital media, data analysis, and data management.

Skills

Data analysis
Data visualization
Storytelling
People leadership
Consulting
Statistics
Predictive modeling
Data clustering/classification techniques
PowerBI
Tableau
DAX
R
SQL
Python
PowerPivot
Microsoft Advertising API

Location

United Kingdom

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Head of
Senior

Salary/Compensations

£100,400.00 - £200,500.00 per year

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

About the Company

Microsoft Advertising is a global leader in digital advertising, helping advertisers grow through search, display, video, and retail media solutions.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals.
Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Equal Opportunity

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.