Director - Commerce Analytics & Intelligence

Dentsu Aegis Network Ltd.; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k

Flexible paid time off

15 paid holidays per year

Paid sick leave

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Ugam, part of Dentsu Aegis Network, seeks a Director of Commerce Analytics to lead analytics strategy and delivery for a major enterprise account. You will pair business acumen with AI/ML insight, manage a blended onshore/offshore team, and translate client needs into end-to-end analytics solutions across pricing, assortment, and competitive intelligence.

You will shape the practice, drive weekly status, and ensure solutions live in the client's environment with solid governance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in commerce, retail, or merchandising analytics with depth in two areas
• Strong business acumen and client leadership experience
• Onshore/offshore delivery leadership and ability to translate business needs into technical plans

Responsibilities

• Own analytics craft end to end for the account and present proposals to the client
• Lead and manage a blended onshore/offshore pod across time zones
• Maintain governance, documentation, and value cadence with milestones and risk management
• Grow the account by converting delivered value into expanded scope and opportunities

Skills

AI/ML

Python

SQL

Cloud computing

LLMs/GenAI

BI tooling

Data storytelling

Tools

LLMs & GenAI

BI Tools

Attribution platforms

Semantic/Decisioning

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Job description

The purpose of this role is to develop best in class strategies and management of all Insights and Analysis activity on assigned clients, to manage and develop the team and serve as a point of escalation as needed. Job Description: Merkle's Commerce Analytics & Intelligence practice helps the world's largest retailers, brands, and marketplaces turn data into decisions across the four Ps — product, price, promotion, and place — and against the competitive market. We are moving from an embedded, staff-augmentation delivery model to a craft-led consultancy: named specialists organized by discipline, US-onshore leadership in front of a global delivery engine, and value measured by the decisions we enable rather than the hours we bill. The Director, Commerce Analytics is a US-based onshore craft leader accountable for one of our largest enterprise accounts. You pair fluent business acumen with a strong technical foundation — AI and machine learning, Python, SQL, and cloud computation — and you use both to own the analytics craft end to end: consumer decision modeling, pricing and promotion, assortment and space, and competitive intelligence. You lead a blended onshore/offshore pod, sit at the client's table as a trusted advisor, and translate business need into a delivery plan the offshore engine executes. This is a build role: you are shaping how the practice operates as much as running the work. What you will own Client partnership. Be the senior analytics voice the client relies on — present the standard rather than wait for the ask, bring proposals not order-taking, and hold the relationship at the business‑decision altitude, not the report altitude. The craft. Own the analytics discipline across the account: consumer decision modeling and the semantic/decisioning layer, pricing and promotion, assortment and localization, digital shelf and competitive intelligence — the me‑vs‑market view of the four Ps. A blended pod. Lead a flat, project‑based team drawn from a single global Merkle pool — onshore practitioners in front, offshore engineering and data‑science engines behind. Assemble teams around projects, not titles; project leadership follows the work. Delivery you can prove. Stand up and run a value cadence: weekly delivery status with dated milestones, risks and dependencies; monthly project‑based business readouts per area; and a scorecard that shows the client what their investment returns — baselines stated honestly, targets met. Documentation and governance. Ensure solutions live visibly in the client's environment with current documentation, clear workflows, and a governance standard any party can pick up — closing the gap between what the team delivers and what the client can see. Growth. Convert delivered value into expansion — new decisions, new areas, new scope — and feed the account's forward pipeline in partnership with account and client‑success leadership. What you will bring Fluent business acumen. You read a P&L and a merchant's world with equal ease — you can move between the four Ps and the levers behind them (traffic, transaction, units, conversion, margin), translate a business question into an analytical answer and back, and hold your own in a boardroom, not just a data review. Strong technical background. Deep, hands‑credible expertise across the modern analytics and AI stack — AI and machine learning, Python, SQL, and cloud computation (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure and their data/ML services) — plus fluency in the market‑leading tooling of the moment: LLMs and agentic/GenAI, semantic and decisioning layers, experimentation and attribution platforms, and modern BI. You do not have to be the builder on every project, but you must be credible enough to architect, challenge, and lead engineers and data scientists. 8+ years in commerce, retail, or merchandising analytics, with real functional depth in at least two of: pricing and promotion, assortment and space, consumer decision modeling / CDT, or competitive and digital‑shelf intelligence. You have sat on the merchant or business side of these decisions, not just the reporting side. Consulting and client leadership. You have led senior client relationships as a trusted advisor, set the analytical standard, and navigated a large, matrixed client organization — comfortable proposing the path rather than executing a spec. Onshore/offshore delivery leadership. You have led blended teams across time zones and shores, translated business intent into a technical plan, and held delivery quality and dates without a heavy management layer beneath you. A build-and‑shepherd temperament. You set standards, raise risks early, escape rather than absorb, and grow people by the work they lead — not by title.

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 15 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick and safe leave
• Paid parental leave

Placement within the salary range for this position is $136,000-$190,000. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.

Location: USA - Remote - Georgia

Brand: Ugam

Time Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

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