Senior Director Global, BI Services at WPP Media | GB | Rezi

Senior Director Global, BI Services at WPP Media

Senior Director Global, BI Services

WPP Media · GB

3 days ago

Senior Director Global, BI Services

WPP Media · GB

4 days ago
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About the Role

At WPP, we’re constantly reinventing the future of creativity on an ever-broader canvas, bringing together unrivalled talent, resources and skills to provide an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce and technology. The unique OpenDoor partnership model is built to deliver next level Productivity, fueled by our industry-leading approach to People, Platforms, and Process. By joining OpenDoor, you are joining a cross-function team partnering with one of WPP’s top five global clients, challenging yourself and the world around you every day, working in the most unusual way on some of Earth’s most ambitious opportunities in marketing, tech, media, business, and creativity.

Responsibilities

  • Own reports and data provisioning solutions for the client, taking direct accountability for the quality of the team’s solutions, representing them to clients and working with media leadership to drive successful adoption
  • Demonstrate firsthand understanding of client and media team needs, and lead Business Analysts in the translation of expressed needs into clear and structured requirements for engineers and BI developers
  • Work with clients and media leadership to establish consensus on the prioritization of requirements for development, using your knowledge of requirements and the technical solution to steer the conversation
  • Lead the design of technical solutions to meet requirements, including the scoping and estimation of work to develop
  • Provide strategic coordination across disciplines on the Amazon account (Media, Measurement/Analytics, Data Excellence, Leadership)
  • Hire, train, and mentor a team of data engineers and reporting specialists, ensuring they have the environment to deliver their best work
  • Provide hands-on leadership, leaning in to support the team when needed, and driving continual improvement in the way we ingest, store, transform and visualize data
  • Partner with Data Excellence, and Engineering as well as Measurement, Analytics and Investment leadership to ensure reporting solutions are incorporating best practice metrics to assess performance, which in turn link to client business goals
  • Be the voice of the client within DTA reporting product and service steering groups, directly influencing the ongoing development of supporting data & technology infrastructure
  • Provide support and training to users of reporting solutions, with the aim of empowering them to be more self-sufficient in overcoming these issues.

Requirements

  • Experience as a business intelligence or reporting specialists, preferably at a media agency or related company (e.g. publisher, ad tech, client marketing org)
  • Experience designing and developing intuitive data visualizations with business intelligence software (e.g. PowerBi, Tableau, Looker, Datastudio) that empower end users
  • Strong knowledge of using data infrastructure and cloud data management technologies, as well as data prep and ETL processes, to deliver robust data infrastructure
  • Experience with digital marketing platforms and the data they generate, in particular Google Marketing Platform, Facebook, Twitter etc. Knowledge of their API’s a plus.
  • Experience with WPP Media’s DPAM process and OMS, with particular benefit coming from experience with Campaign Management (formerly Olive) and Campaign Governance (formerly OCTRA)
  • Experience helping set clear strategy, designing technical solutions, proactively managing feature roadmaps, and organizing technical resources to deliver it
  • Excellent and adaptable written and verbal communications style, being able to translate non-technical use cases into technical requirements
  • Strong influencing skills, able to represent and defend your data solutions with senior clients
  • An ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams, and directly influence others to drive adoption of solutions and overcome upstream barriers to implementation
  • Experience leading, nurturing and coaching high-performing technical resources
  • A passion for data excellence and integrity, and a commitment to supporting others and providing better solutions to support it.
  • Specific experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), in particular S3, RedShift, and DBT.
  • A general understanding of how data is tracked and exchanged in the process of digital advertising (e.g. role of adservers and other third-party providers of campaign health performance metrics such as DoubleVerify)

Skills

  • Business Intelligence
  • Reporting
  • Data Visualization
  • PowerBI
  • Tableau
  • Looker
  • Datastudio
  • Data Infrastructure
  • Cloud Data Management
  • ETL Processes
  • Digital Marketing Platforms
  • Google Marketing Platform
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • API's
  • WPP Media DPAM
  • WPP Media OMS
  • Campaign Management
  • Campaign Governance
  • Strategy Development
  • Technical Solution Design
  • Feature Roadmap Management
  • Technical Resource Organization
  • Written Communication
  • Verbal Communication
  • Influencing Skills
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Team Leadership
  • Coaching
  • Data Excellence
  • Data Integrity
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • S3
  • RedShift
  • DBT
  • Digital Advertising Data Tracking
  • Adservers
  • DoubleVerify

Location

  • UK

Work Type

  • Hybrid
  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Senior Director

Benefits

  • Competitive medical insurance
  • Group retirement plans
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Significant paid time off
  • Preferential partner discounts
  • Employee mental health awareness days

About the Company

  • WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.
  • WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.
  • For more information, visit wppmedia.com.

Equal Opportunity

  • WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to characteristics.
  • We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection in this open and supportive environment.
  • That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week.
  • If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.
  • Please note that while our philosophy is the same across WPP, benefits may vary by office/country.