Analytics Director

Analytics Director – 264 GCS

About WPP Media 

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Role Summary and Impact 

The Director, Global Analytics is a senior, client-facing role responsible for leading the campaign reporting agenda across Global Solutions. This individual will ensure reporting outputs are accurate, consistent, strategically useful and clearly connected to planning, optimisation and future investment decisions. The role will collaborate closely with global planning leads, local market teams, client stakeholders and technology teams to turn campaign performance data into clear, actionable insight and compelling strategic narratives. 

The role requires a strong reporting and insights leader with technical confidence across dashboards, data flows, taxonomy, metric definitions and measurement tools. They do not need to be the deepest technical specialist, but they must be able to interrogate outputs, identify issues, explain limitations and work effectively with technical and analytics teams. The successful candidate will be highly client-facing, confident presenting to senior stakeholders, and able to constructively challenge and advise the client on reporting interpretation, measurement tools and wider measurement strategy. 

While planners and analysts will remain responsible for much of the day-to-day report drafting and analysis, this person will lead the reporting agenda end-to-end: defining the standards, shaping the narrative, reviewing outputs, challenging interpretation and ensuring the final work is accurate, insightful, ready to feed future planning cycles and ultimately client-ready.  

Skills and Experience 

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values: 

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity. 

• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust. 

• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise. 

Campaign Reporting & Insight: 

• Lead the global campaign reporting workstream, setting the standard for dashboards, recurring reports, post-campaign analysis and senior client readouts. 
• Define and guide the development of reporting outputs that move beyond descriptive performance updates to provide clear insight, implications, recommendations and next steps. 
• Ensure complex and multi-source campaign data is translated into compelling analytical storytelling for senior client and internal stakeholders.
• Work in lockstep with planning teams to ensure reporting is designed around the decisions that need to be made before, during and after campaign delivery. 
• Guide teams to identify trends, patterns, performance drivers and opportunities within campaign data to inform future planning cycles and optimisation recommendations. 
• Present findings and recommendations to senior client and internal stakeholders in a clear, concise and commercially relevant way. 

Measurement Strategy & Client Advisory: 

• Act as a senior client-facing lead for reporting and measurement interpretation, confidently explaining methodology, assumptions, limitations and recommended actions. 
• Partner with clients, planning teams and analytics specialists to define campaign learning agendas, KPI frameworks, reporting requirements and measurement priorities. 
• Constructively challenge client and internal stakeholders on reporting interpretation, measurement expectations and the role of different tools in answering business questions. 
• Stay close to industry trends and best practice in campaign measurement, reporting automation, data visualisation and insight storytelling. 
• Ensure reporting and measurement outputs are connected to planning hypotheses, optimisation opportunities and wider business  

 Collaboration & Training: 

• Work closely with global planning teams to integrate reporting learnings and data-driven insights into campaign strategy and execution. 
• Partner with local market teams to understand reporting needs, improve consistency and provide tailored support where 
• Collaborate with technology,analytics and data governance teams to improve dashboard usability, data reliability, taxonomy discipline and reporting automation. 
• Develop and deliver guidance, coaching and training to improve data literacy, insight writing, analytical storytelling and client-ready recommendations across the team. 
• Act as a subject matter expert on campaign reporting, insight development and measurement interpretation, providing guidance and support to colleagues. 

Technology, Data & Reporting Infrastructure: 

• Shape the development and adoption of reporting outputs in Rubik and other measurement platforms, ensuring tools are usable, strategically relevant and capable of supporting high-quality insight. 
• Bring technical confidence to discussions around data sources, data quality, taxonomy, metric definitions, dashboard logic and measurement  
• Work with technical specialists to troubleshoot reporting issues, improve data reliability and ensure the team can explain how key numbers are produced and what decisions they can credibly support. 
• Support the development of reporting documentation, process guidance and standards that improve consistency across markets and workstreams.
• Partner with data governance and tooling teams on reporting requirements, while maintaining clear responsibility for the strategic usefulness, interpretation and adoption of reporting outputs. 

Life at WPP Media & Benefits 

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.   

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. 

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. 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 this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location 

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