Data Integration Associate Director

Group M Worldwide Inc.; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company seeks a Data Integration Associate Director in London to oversee data orchestration and enhance project management across data workstreams. The role involves ensuring teams are trained, managing technology implementations, and driving accountability across the organization.

Benefits

Competitive medical and dental insurance

Group retirement plans

Significant paid time off

Employee mental health awareness days

Preferential partner discounts

Qualifications

• Experienced in media planning, data or analytics.
• Strong understanding of the data (1P, 2P, 3P) landscape.

Responsibilities

• Conduct ongoing orchestration across all data workstreams.
• Manage the roadmap and implementation of technology.
• Ensure teams are trained on processes across all data workstreams.

Skills

Project Management

Media Planning

Data Analytics

Client Facing Skills

Presentation Skills

Job description

Data Integration Associate Director

Colgate Palmolive EMEA

About WPP Media

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.

WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com

About Wavemaker: A Leading WPP Media Brand

Wavemaker positively provokes growth for clients by reshaping consumer decision-making and experiences through media, content, and technology. Our name is both our mission and our method. We do our best work for brave brands and people who relish being challenged to go further and faster, together.

Role Summary and Impact

This role would be focused on data orchestration and project management of data workstreams to gel teams together and smooth out challenges existing between central swim lanes. It would also drive accountability in hubs and markets, supporting our new processes, and raising any challenges to the central team. Orchestration, in this sense, means bringing everything together and working in harmony.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct ongoing orchestration across all data workstreams.
• Manage the roadmap and implementation of technology coming from global to EU. Prioritise technology based on need and market maturity, working with global to onboard.
• Ensure teams are fully trained and updated on CP and WPP processes across all data workstreams and data activations.
• Facilitate the orchestration of relevant data for MMM studies or other projects requiring data inputs.
• Ensure technical infrastructure is sound across CP and WPP platforms. For example, ensuring that the CP website is adequately tagged for data activations.
• Police data usage and adherence to best practice processes across hubs and markets, raising any challenges back to the relevant stakeholder.
• Review performance insights, feeding back necessary optimisation to hubs and markets to help improve performance.
• Maintain relationships with data partners (e.g. clean rooms, DSP’s, retail media) to ensure teams have the latest updates and access to tests etc.

Skills and Experience

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growthand Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.
• Experienced media planning, data or analytics experience
• Strong understanding of the data (1P, 2P, 3P) landscape
• Strong project management skills
• Strong client facing and presentation skills

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Please note this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location.

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