Senior Consultant, Data Strategy

Publicis Groupe; Paris; Hybride; EUR 110 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Inclusive workplace

Ongoing learning & development

Competitive compensation

Flexible work arrangements

Comprehensive health benefits for you/

Generous paid leave & holidays

Wellness program & employee assistance

Résumé du poste

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Manager, Data & AI Strategy to lead data-driven transformation programs for global clients. You will shape data and AI strategies, drive thought leadership, and embed innovative approaches into client engagements while mentoring teams and growing senior client relationships.

You will work across industries, bringing hands-on data/AI knowledge and a startup mindset to deliver value at scale and accelerate clients’ digital journeys.

Qualifications

• Strong data & AI knowledge, able to interpret client business/technical requirements, and translate into learning agendas and strategies.
• Practical grounding in at least one industry with understanding of data/AI value in that context.
• Knowledgeable about data and AI capabilities/use cases, data types, sources, partners, and data quality.
• Excellent storytelling and communication skills to distill complex data/AI concepts.
• Architect innovative data and AI strategies and integrated solutions.
• Curate a culture of learning in data and AI tools, case studies, new partners, and techniques.
• High sense of ownership, drive, and agenda setting.
• Strong team player with a can-do attitude and ability to simplify and go into detail when needed.
• Learning mindset and willingness to broaden skills as needed.
• Ability to establish, manage and grow senior client relationships and drive account growth.
• Ability to motivate and lead a cross-functional team to project completion.
• Ability to quantify and communicate impact-driven by data/AI solutions.

Responsabilités

• Lead the data- and AI-driven program approach across teams, developing data and AI strategies for clients.
• Educate client-facing teams and define best-practice approaches.
• Provide strategic direction on data and AI thought leadership for strategic partners.
• Embed new data-driven approaches and case studies into client engagements and collateral.
• Drive new business pitches and prototyping work.
• Oversee data-driven learning agendas, use cases, and partner evaluation/activation on client accounts.
• Align data/AI strategy with client approval and adoption.

Connaissances

Data strategy

AI strategy

Industry knowledge

Storytelling

Communication

Leadership

Client relationships

Team leadership

Learning mindset

Business growth

Description du poste

Company description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Overview

Manager Data Strategy

Do you want to join a global organization that is revolutionizing the digital landscape? Today, as clients across industries are moving from digitally extending their businesses to placing digital at the core, Publicis Sapient has an unprecedented opportunity to help them succeed.
As a digital business transformation partner of choice, we've spent nearly three decades utilizing the disruptive power of technology and ingenuity to help digitally enable our clients' business in their pursuit of next. We bring a startup mindset and agile methods to both established companies and the public sector to unlock value in ways that delight their customers and improve their operational effectiveness. Our approach to transformation is grounded in a view of both the company and the customers simultaneously, and a unique fusing of strategy and consulting, experience and engineering with an enduring culture of problem-solving creativity.
In the space between next and now is how. And we believe that how you seize that space is everything! Our ambition is to create an environment where data scientists and artificial intelligence experts can tackle some of today's most complex, strategic operational challenges. To make this happen we require the brightest minds in strategy to focus on data. This new venture will deliver predictive analytics solutions to leading businesses. It's an opportunity to design, build, and implement practical, end-to-end platforms that help the world's most recognized brands to make smarter decisions and provide more valuable services to their customers. With mentorship from both companies and the agility of a startup, we're building something from the ground up with deep resources, alongside a team of the world's premier talent in data science.

Your Impact

• The purpose of the Manager, Data & AI Strategy is to work with clients undergoing a data-driven transformation (DDT) across the globe.
• The Manager, Data & AI Strategy will accelerate and drive the DDT strategy for clients, working in partnership with client-facing leads, client teams, and practice capability.
• The role will be a key contributor in ensuring the agency is an industry leader in AI and data thinking, execution, and value realization for clients through data-driven solutions.
• Lead execution of data- and AI-driven program approach across teams, supporting client-facing leads in the development of data and AI strategies for their client, setting best practice approaches, and educating client-facing teams.
• Provide strategic direction on data and AI-driven thought leadership agenda for strategic partners
• Lead the continuous embedding of new data-driven and AI-driven approaches and case studies into our client engagement framework and agency collateral
• Be a key driver of new business pitches and prototyping work
• Leads the definition of data-driven learning agendas, use cases for AI and technology adoption, data strategy as well as owning partner evaluation, selection, and integration, and finally activation on client accounts.
• The requirement of the role is both strategic as well as executional, leading the activation of data-driven and AI-powered business solutions. Candidates must bring solid, hands-on knowledge of data and AI, and should have at least one industry vertical (e.g. retail, financial services, healthcare, media, manufacturing) they know well and can apply that knowledge to.
• Responsible for ensuring the data and AI strategy and measurement frameworks align, and securing client approval and driving adoption
• Working with client teams, strategy leads, and delivery leads to define an audience or data domain framework and data strategy for each client's business, brand, or overall portfolio, tapping into relevant data partners, and first-party data
• Grow the use of data and AI platforms (e.g. CDPs, data lakes, ML/AI platforms) in data-driven use cases, application in business initiatives, and general adoption through strategy to connect to a wider spectrum of datasets, particularly 1P and 2P data
• Support the development of technology-based platforms and applications as a data and AI strategist, providing data and AI thought leadership alongside Publicis Sapient data & tech talent as well as partner agencies
• Function as the data and AI technology and strategy subject matter expert, acting as a client steward and trusted partner, ensuring the technology ecosystem fits together while leading the implementation of any desired changes and proactively suggesting optimizations to improve data fluidity, reducing data loss / improving data match rates
• Work with client and internal teams to provide guidance on how data and AI can be utilized to inform annual planning insights and work with the team to help inform how data and AI integration evolves the planning process

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong data & ai knowledge, able to interpret client business/technical requirements, and support in translating these into clearly articulated, parceled up learning agendas and strategies to accelerate how data , AI, and technology support the maximization of client business outcomes.
• Practical grounding in at least one industry (e.g. retail, financial services, healthcare, media, manufacturing), with an understanding of how data and AI create value in that context.
• Knowledgeable about data and AI capabilities/use cases, data types, sources, partners, and what defines the quality of data; expert in leveraging data and AI in a business context for activation, measurement as well as strategic applications
• Excellent storytelling and communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex data and AI concepts and distill them to their core ideas, themes, insights, and recommendations
• Architect innovative and highly effective data and AI strategies, communication plans, and integrated solutions.
• Curate a culture of learning in data and AI tools, case studies, new partners, and techniques
• High sense of ownership, drive, agenda setting
• Strong team player with a can-do attitude and an ability to simplify as well as go into detail when necessary
• Aggressive appetite for learning and broadening/deepening skill set as needed
• Ability to establish, manage and grow senior client relationships
• Ability to motivate and lead a team of data and AI resources as well as the broader cross-functional team to project completion
• Ability to identify new business opportunities and value pools and propositions within the client's business and drive account growth
• Ability to quantify and communicate impact-driven by the team through strategic, data-driven and AI-driven solutions and work

Additional information

• An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexibility to support work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
• Generous paid leave and holidays.
• Wellness program and employee assistance.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [e-mail]