Director - Data Management & Visualisation - Media Agency

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

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

• Proven experience leading data governance, BI or data management programmes 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