Dentsu

The Managing Director of Data Solutions plays a pivotal leadership role within Dentsu's Marketing Science practice, responsible for the strategic growth, delivery excellence, and commercial success of our data-driven solutions. As maternity cover, this role will oversee a team of 22 specialists spanning three core capabilities: Data Visualization, Data Intelligence, and Consulting. Acting as a senior client partner, the MD leads day-to-day client engagement for key accounts, ensuring our data and technology offering is both visionary and grounded in business impact. This is a hands-on leadership position requiring deep cross-functional coordination, commercial expertise, and a forward-thinking approach to innovation and delivery. The role may also contribute to new business growth by supporting pitch activity alongside media teams or through strategic outreach to existing clients to expand Dentsu's footprint. Job Description: Key Responsibilities Leadership & Team Management Lead a team of 22 data specialists across Visualization, Intelligence, and Consulting. Foster a high-performing and inclusive team culture, ensuring continuous development, support, and inspiration for individual and collective growth. Actively manage team structure, prioritization, and workflow to ensure effective resourcing across multiple high-value clients. Client Partnership & Delivery Serve as the senior strategic lead for key client relationships, leading data and technology delivery across multiple sectors. Translate complex data challenges into actionable strategies and overseeing implementation. Ensure quality, consistency, and clarity in client deliverables Industry Leadership & Internal Influence Act as a senior representative for Dentsu in external forums, contributing to industry dialogue and reinforcing our brand reputation. Build strong relationships across lines of business to embed our data solutions into end-to-end client delivery. Commercial Growth & Innovation Contribute to new business efforts, pitching all data capabilities Drive new and incremental revenue by expanding client relationships, identifying cross-sell opportunities, and supporting the wider Dentsu business development agenda. Guide the development and adoption of new data products and services as well as packaging these offerings Skills & Experience Proven ability to lead large, multidisciplinary teams across different capability areas and levels of experience. Strong client leadership skills, with a track record of building trust and delivering high-impact strategies across data, tech, and analytics. Experience managing commercial delivery, revenue planning, and strategic account growth. Deep expertise in data strategy, measurement frameworks, and applied analytics. Confident presenting complex concepts and technical solutions to C-suite and senior stakeholders. Skilled at balancing strategic vision with operational execution, able to get into the details while keeping teams focused on the big picture. Excellent internal collaboration skills across product, media, tech, and creative disciplines. Location: London Brand: Dentsu Media Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

Job Description: is a global digital-first end-to-end media agency. Our unmatched mix of media strategy and storytelling with digital expertise and audience knowledge defines the new territory of performance-driven brand building. By delivering human-centric solutions, we accelerate growth for the world's most iconic brands including Kering, Sonos, Cox, LG, Hilton, Levi's, Budweiser, Microsoft, and Procter & Gamble. We work across a network of more than 8,000 media and performance specialists spread across 93 global markets. Role Purpose The Global Client Partner will play a key role on a 12 month FTC in delivering industry-leading integrated planning, alongside crafting the strategic direction for Gucci, as well as new business. You will work closely with teams across the globe and are in a pivotal role to drive strategic and commercial growth, and leading development and progression for your team. Reports to: Global Lead, Gucci Key objective: Drive transformative business results for our clients, resulting in client retention and satisfaction whilst ensuring commercial growth This will be achieved by: Building strong trust-based client relationships with our central clients in Gucci and Kering, and with key markets globally Drive transformative business results for Gucci, deploying key specialists in a globally integrated way Building an inclusive and collaborative culture across the dentsu Gucci team globally What Success Looks Like: Client Satisfaction: Achieve TRR of 8 or above on Gucci Financial Control: Deliver accurate revenue forecast, growth plans to achieve targets Financial Success: Achieve revenue growth through delivery of new and innovative solutions for our clients Trusted advisor status: Be seen as a strategic partner and leader of the client's category/business delivering on the transformative digital plan for your clients Team leadership: Lead and influence our teams effectively by ensuring expectations are set and clearly communicate with teams and clients on deliverables, timing etc. Positive culture: Demonstrate the dentsu values Positive feedback: Positive 360 feedback from peers What you bring Articulating information concisely and engagingly Knowledge of digital and ATL channels Good understanding of holistic digital media concepts, propositions, dentsu services Ability to develop a strong brief response using ability to understand cultural nuances, adapting personal style to fit. Respects differences in culture, approach, and skillset Ability to find and derive consumer and category insight from available planning tools e.g. Mintel, Statista, YouGov, internal tools A few of the benefits 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) pro rata 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 Inclusion and Diversity At Dentsu, we embrace diversity and inclusion, valuing the unique perspectives and contributions of every individual. We believe that diversity fuels creativity and innovation, benefiting our employees, partners, and communities. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic. Beyond recruitment, we strive to create an environment where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. We recognize the importance of work-life balance and are open to discussing flexible working arrangements for all roles. If you need reasonable adjustments due to a disability or medical condition during our recruitment process, please contact us at , quoting the reference number of the role that you are applying for. Your needs will be handled with respect and confidentiality to ensure an inclusive and accessible experience. Location: London Brand: Global Iprospect Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

Dentsu and Santander are partnering to drive growth and prosperity by helping Small and Mid-sized Businesses to access International Trade through a world-first, global platform and ecosystem of expertise, insight and connections. This role will be an important member of the team behind our platform's launch and global success. Job Description: At Navigator.Global we're building a category-defining B2B platform that empowers businesses to grow internationally. While our core mission is to help businesses expand globally, we also have big plans to expand internationally. We plan to launch in ten markets this year with further markets planned in 2026 and beyond. As our first Head of Data and Commercialisation, you'll lay the foundation for a data commercial focused culture, collaborating with other skilled teams to make a strategic impact across the business. If you're excited by the opportunity to shape strategy, own outcomes, and work in a B2B business that is helping define the category -let's talk. The Role: At it's heart Navigator.Global is a lead management and data platform helping businesses to grow internationally. We are your one stop shop for international trade - combining financial and commercial partners with vetted industry providers to help our customers expand globally across a wide variety of industries. As Head of Data and Commercialisation you'll help us unlock the power of data in building a smarter, faster, and more scalable B2B platform. In this pivotal role, you'll shape and execute our data vision, turning insights into action that drives customer value, product innovation, and revenue growth. You'll lead a team of experts and collaborate across departments to align data strategy with our go-to-market and product roadmap, playing a foundational role in how we grow. Combining your expertise and insight in data - you will work with the sales and commercial teams to test, define our subscription and pricing plan. Responsibilities: Define and Execute Data Strategy: Build a clear and scalable data strategy that supports our product-led growth model, customer success, and market expansion. Commercial Product and Pricing Strategy: In collaboration with the commercial/sales teams - define our subscription roadmap and pricing strategy, conduct regular sales/market analysis. Identify opportunities to acquire new customers, trade customers up and retain the ones we do have through product/sales initiatives globally Drive Commercial Value from Data: Identify ways to use data to improve monetisation (e.g. upsell triggers, data as a service), enhance onboarding, and optimise retention. Inform Product & GTM Decisions: Collaborate closely with Product, Commercial and Marketing to use data for segmentation, targeting, and personalisation strategies. Attribution: As we expand globally and develop our marketing programs ensure all our initiatives are attributable, measurable by channel and market. This is vital for us but also our commercial partners Own Metrics and KPIs: Establish the metrics that matter-usage behaviour, digital satisfaction etc -and make them accessible across the org. Build Insights Infrastructure: Work with engineers or vendors to implement and manage the tools needed to deliver reporting, dashboards, and predictive insights. Support Regulatory & Risk Needs: In partnership with compliance/legal teams, help ensure data usage aligns with GDPR and market regulations. Act as Strategic Partner: Serve as the data voice in leadership discussions-bringing a data-driven lens to commercial strategy, pricing models, and investor reporting. Requirements: 10+ years of experience in data strategy, product analytics, or commercial operations-ideally in fintech or SaaS environments. Strong understanding of building data models, data sharing agreements, customer lifecycle, LTV economics, and regulatory considerations. Demonstrated experience translating data into commercial outcomes (e.g., churn reduction, pricing / subscription optimisation, market performance). Experience working with pricing, margin and revenue models across multi national businesses. Hands-on skills with modern data tools (e.g., AWS, PowerBI, SalesForce) Exceptional communication skills-you're equally comfortable presenting to the exec team or collaborating with engineers. Proven ability to thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment with competing priorities. Ability to travel to the UK and abroad when required Good to have: Experience working with financial and/or banking partners. Knowledge of banking systems and data sets would be advantageous Familiarity with B2B metrics like product-led growth, activation funnels, and customer segmentation. Exposure to or curiosity about AI/ML and how it can enhance SaaS experiences. A few of the benefits 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 Inclusion and Diversity Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures. We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles - we can't promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams Location: London Brand: Merkle Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Permanent