Data Solutions Business Director

Location: London, London, United Kingdom

Agency

Omnicom Media

Job Function

Data and Analytics

Job Subfunction

Data Engineering

The Role

We are looking for an experienced and commercially minded Data Solutions Business Director to own and lead the Data Solutions function at MG.

Reporting directly to the Head of D&T Strategy, this role will co-own the overall strategy and commercial growth of the function and be accountable for the performance, people, proposition, and delivery standards of the practice.

The successful candidate will lead a 10+ multidisciplinary team of BI, data engineering, and offshore specialists, helping clients transform data into a strategic asset. They will shape scalable solutions across connected media, business intelligence, analytics, measurement and AI, while ensuring the function delivers high-quality, commercially sustainable outcomes.

This is a senior leadership role requiring confidence with clients, agency leadership and wider OM teams. The successful candidate will work across all our clients, including Specsavers, John Lewis Partnership, British Airways, giffgaff, Virgin Media, and O2, and must be highly organised and comfortable managing multiple complex workstreams. They will be an influential, forward-thinking leader who can translate complex client challenges into practical and scalable data solutions; build high-performing teams; manage senior stakeholders; and drive innovation through the development and scaling of new products and services.

The role is accountable for

Developing alongside the Head of D&T Strategy the vision, operating model and roadmap for the Data Solutions function.

Team leadership, workforce planning, recruitment and succession planning.

Capability development across BI, analytics engineering, data integration and emerging technologies.

Commercial performance, including revenue, profitability, utilisation and growth.

The development, evolution and scaling of Data Solutions products and propositions.

Delivery standards, operational excellence and client satisfaction.

Leading Data Solutions requirements and visualisations within pitches and new business processes.

Driving agency wide initiatives to raise data quality standard e.g. taxonomy, data democratisation and governance

Building and maintaining senior client relationships and acting as a trusted advisor on data and transformation initiatives.

Representing and championing the Data Solutions capability across MG, Omnicom Media and wider strategic initiatives.

To the extent permissible by local law, Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager.

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