SVP, Marketing Effectiveness

Job Description:

SVP Decisioning   

As the SVP of Decisioning you will support the EVP of Decisioning, shaping how current and prospective client perceive dentsu’s Marketing Effectiveness practice—simplifying complexity, instilling confidence in our capabilities, and championing innovative approaches to modern measurement. In this role, you will represent dentsu across three core areas: driving external growth, advancing internal partnerships, and collaborating with key vendors to shape industry leading measurement solutions. You’ll also be responsible for setting the tone of the wider Marketing Effectiveness teams learning agenda and trainings. 

Our Decisioning organization is expanding rapidly, increasing both the breadth and impact of our client work. Your mission is to turn data into a strategic asset across the full media and marketing landscape, working closely with agency and Decisioning leadership to reinforce dentsu’s position as a market innovator. 

You bring deep expertise across the evolving media, data, and technology ecosystem, using advanced tools and analytics to solve complex client challenges. You will collaborate with experts across data science, engineering, analytics, strategy, and planning—leveraging your influence to drive innovation and elevate our Decisioning capabilities. 

The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in media measurement, adtech/martech, identity solutions, people based marketing, and cross channel analytics. You excel at crafting compelling narratives for new business, have quantitative rigor, understand data activation, and possess the executive presence to work directly with senior clients and internal leaders.  

Profile  

We're looking for a high-energy collaborator who is experienced working across complex pieces of business. The candidate is required to have proven experience building strong relationships with both internal teams and clients. With business acumen and client charisma the candidate will navigate and understand the client's culture, business objectives, and media strategy, and will have an appetite for innovation.  

Responsibilities  

• Oversee tools, technology and platforms utilized for the client working with internal and external partners 

• Lead agency development efforts for analytics, including new and organic business pitches  

• Drive process and procedures to support efficiency and consistency  

• Drive strategic thinking and leadership for data analytics, insights and innovation  

• Develop close working relationships with Agency leadership 

• Help to set the vision for audience, competitive, measurement, reporting, and analytics across all lines of business  

• Support and drive the client’s strategic philosophy for data and a particular strength in “test-and-learn” measurement and optimization  

Requirements  

• 12+ years relevant Media Analytics experience  

• Communication & Relationship building: Client facing experience within media agencies, manage the analytics business for a portfolio of clients  

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to convey and package technical findings in simple terms