Data Solutions Director

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Key Responsibilities of the Data Solutions Director

Strategic Leadership & Delivery

• Lead the design, delivery, and continual optimisation of data solutions across multiple client accounts, ensuring consistency, quality, and efficiency.
• Define and evolve data delivery standards, frameworks, and best practices, ensuring alignment with MGOMD’s wider data strategy.
• Oversee onboarding of new clients and projects in a standardised, scalable manner, ensuring readiness across data, processes, and documentation.
• Ability to prioritise effectively, balance resource constraints, maintain project momentum and clear delivery milestones.
• Own operational excellence across data delivery, establishing repeatable processes, SLAs, delivery KPIs, and quality benchmarks across teams and clients.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Partner with agency teams, client data/media teams, and technical stakeholders to understand challenges, define requirements, and translate them into clear, actionable data solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor for clients on data architecture, governance, and analytics best practices.
• Facilitate / Deliver workshops, and requirements-gathering sessions for dashboards and presenting solution recommendations.
• Communicate complex technical concepts in a clear, concise, business-friendly way.
• Influence senior stakeholders to drive alignment across teams, ensuring clarity of ownership, expectations and delivery outcomes
• Identify and surface risks early, providing mitigation strategies and clear escalation paths when required.

Product Ownership & BI Leadership

Own the full lifecycle of dashboard development - from discovery and requirements mapping to delivery, QA, adoption, and user training.

Guide teams on best practices for semantic models, reporting layer design, and automation.

Collaborate with Data SMEs to ensure compliance with data standards, governance policies, audit practices, and quality frameworks.

Ensure robust monitoring is in place across dashboards, and automated reports, with processes to detect and resolve data quality issues.

Drive innovation and the roadmap for data products, exploring opportunities in automation, AI-assisted analytics, and emerging technologies

Team Leadership & Development

Mentor and develop junior and mid-level data team members, supporting their technical and professional growth.

Foster a culture of data literacy, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement across MGOMD.

Support data culture initiatives and help elevate awareness of best practices across the wider business.

Deliver training and upskilling sessions for both UK and India teams to ensure consistent capability and standards

Provide formal line management, including performance reviews, progression planning, hiring, and resource allocation.

Commercial & Out of Scope Projects

Lead scoping, estimation, and commercial modelling for data projects and SOWs.

Ensure efficient utilisation and profitability across the data team and project portfolio.

Identify opportunities for growth through upsell, cross-sell, and proactive value-adding recommendations.

Partner with account teams to drive commercial performance and help shape long-term client roadmaps.

Technical Proficiency

Strong understanding of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL), data management principles and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Proven ability to collaborate effectively with data engineers, BI developers, and business stakeholders.

5+ years of experience building and managing BI dashboard projects (including model design, DAX, governance and adoption).

Experience leading complex BI/analytics projects in medium-to-large organisations.

Microsoft Fabric experience is a significant bonus.

Management & Leadership Proficiency

Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-stream data projects end-to-end.

Familiarity with project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall) and associated tools.

Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into strategic business impact.

Experience influencing senior stakeholders and driving cross-functional alignment.

Confident in facilitating training, leading workshops, and presenting technical or strategic recommendations.

Commercial & Business Acumen

Experience scoping, estimating, and costing data or analytics projects.

Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to manage budgets, drive profitability, and support revenue growth.

Experience contributing to or owning Statements of Work (SOWs), commercial proposals, or client roadmaps.

Ability to identify and articulate value-adding opportunities (upsell/cross-sell).

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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