Associate Director, Data Consultancy

GLOBAL-ASM SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Caregiver Leave

Parental Leave

Impact Champions

Employee Resource Groups

Personal Development Plans

Job summary

Assembly Singapore seeks an accomplished Associate Director, Data Consultancy to lead a portfolio of strategic client relationships across Southeast Asia. This role drives data-led growth strategies and ensures high-quality delivery across complex engagements spanning local, regional, and global stakeholders.

The ideal candidate brings seniority and judgment to operate autonomously in a fast-paced, matrixed environment, balancing business impact with client needs and influencing stakeholders at

Qualifications

• Senior data delivery and analytics leadership experience.
• Strong stakeholder management with senior client exposure.
• Experience leading complex data consultancy engagements across SEA.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior strategic lead across a portfolio of key data consultancy accounts.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and advise on data, measurement, martech and analytics.
• Anticipate risks, competing demands, and delivery challenges early, and reprioritise or elevate as appropriate.
• Oversee delivery of complex consultancy projects across analytics, BI, martech, and data science.
• Define priorities and delivery plans across multiple workstreams.
• Share knowledge to raise regional data consultancy maturity.

Skills

Data delivery

Stakeholder management

Analytics leadership

SQL knowledge

GA4

BigQuery

Tools

Google Cloud

Tableau

CDP

Job description

We are Assembly– and we’re not like the rest. We’re the modern alternative agency, bringing together industry-leading data, talent, and tech toFind the Change That Fuels Growthfor the best brands on the planet, including Lenovo, Lane Crawford, Marina Bay Sands, Fossil and more. Our diverse, global community of over 1,600 passionate experts combines global thinking with unmatched local expertise in more than 20 markets worldwide –enabling brands to engage and move consumers anywhere. We use STAGE, Assembly’s proprietary, privacy-centric data solutions platform, to surface powerful insights that transform into actionable brand opportunities. We’re at the cutting edge of new media, technology, and platforms embedded in the lives of today’s consumers, and we’re tapped into how culture and communities’ need change. We do this while staying steadfast in our commitment toLeave the World Better Than We Found Itthrough measurable social and environmental impact work.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

An accomplished Associate Director, Data Consultancy to lead a portfolio of strategic client relationships across Southeast Asia. This role is responsible for driving senior client partnerships, shaping data-led growth strategies, and ensuring high-quality delivery across complex consultancy engagements spanning local, regional, and global stakeholders.

The ideal candidate brings the seniority and judgment to operate with a high degree of autonomy in a fast-paced, matrixed environment. They are able to assess priorities quickly, balance business impact with client needs, make sound decisions in ambiguity, and influence stakeholders at all levels to move work forward effectively.

What you’ll be doing on any given day

Client leadership & stakeholder management

• Serve as the senior strategic lead across a portfolio of key data consultancy accounts.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and act as a confident advisor on data, measurement, martech, analytics, and activation strategy.
• Anticipate risks, competing demands, and delivery challenges early, and proactively reprioritise or elevate as appropriate.

Strategic consultancy & delivery leadership

• Oversee the successful delivery of complex consultancy projects across advanced analytics, business intelligence, martech, and data science.
• Bring structure to ambiguity by defining priorities, decision paths, and delivery plans across multiple workstreams.
• Support the spread of the Data Consultancy knowledge across the company at regional level

Examples of project areas may include:

• Advanced Analytics: GA4 implementation, Floodlight strategy
• Business Intelligence: dashboarding, visualisation, BigQuery projects
• MarTech: GMP onboarding, CDP selection and implementation
• Data Science: predictive analysis, attribution, marketing mix modelling, incrementality testing
• Revenue growth
• Lead/ Support new business pitches when required
• Identify opportunities to expand Assembly’s data consultancy services and convert them into well-defined proposals, scopes, and commercial plans.
• Keep abreast of channel and product updates within the agency, ensuring these are communicated to the client where appropriate.
• Contribute to the overall growth of the Data Consultancy practice by sharing knowledge, improving ways of working, and raising the maturity of the function regionally.

Does this sound like you?

• Minimum 8 years of experience in technical data delivery and account management, preferably in consultancy and analytical roles
• Fluent English communication, verbal and written. A second South East Asian language is a plus.
• Strong experience leading senior client relationships and complex consultancy engagements across Southeast Asia.
• Numerical and analytical with experience working with data specialists
• Excellent understanding of main digital channels and data platforms/ecosystem, including Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Cloud, Tableau, PPC, Display, Programmatic, Paid Social etc
• Demonstrable experience in managing data projects, experience in working with developers and technical specialists
• Understands SEA market nuances to adapt and localise global and regional strategies
• Proven ability to manage ambiguity, evaluate priorities independently, and make sound commercial and operational decisions in fast-moving environments.
• Demonstrated success influencing senior stakeholders and leading conversations with authority, credibility, and tact.
• Experience overseeing complex data and technical projects, with the ability to work effectively with specialists across analytics, engineering, product, and media.
• SQL knowledge is a plus.

Personality attributes

• Commercially minded with strong business judgment
• Ability to traverse and handle multiple projects initiatives at the portfolio-level
• Proactive, motivated, self starter and willing to learn
• Confident, responsible with client facing attributes
• Detail-oriented, organised
• 'Never stop learning' attitude
• Strategic, calm, and decisive under pressure

Benefits

WHY ASSEMBLY?

• We’re part of Stagwell, the challenger network built to transform marketing. We’re nimble, smart, and digital-first, and we’re quickly growing to take on the biggest legacy hold cos.
• We care about your growth – we offer competitive salaries, annual compensation reviews, and keep detailed personal development plans to ensure you’re hitting your personal and company goals.
• We recognize and celebrate your success... all the time! Whether it’s through company meetups, employee recognition programs, or just a regular day, we make sure our people’s achievements are known and appreciated!
• We’re truly a people-first organization. That’s why we offer a Flexible Time Off policy that puts you in control of your work-life balance, as well as market-leading primary and secondary caregiver and parental leave policies.
• We care about social and environmental impact – we have dedicated Impact Champions that collaborate globally to make sure we’re leaving the world better than we found it.
• We have an amazing group of employee resource groups committed to guiding the agency to become more inclusive, diverse, and representative of the world around us.