Freelance Brand Performance Director

Landor; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 214,000; Part time

Job summary

Landor, part of WPP, is seeking a Freelance Brand Performance Director to join our Chicago studio. The role focuses on building a robust Brand Performance offer that supports strategic and creative efforts and delivers measurable business impact.

The position involves partnering with the Global team, guiding analytics, and mentoring junior staff while advancing our brand measurement capabilities across a range of clients.

Qualifications

• Passionate about brands, audience, trends, and commercial impact.
• Experience translating insights into actionable client strategies.
• Experience with data gathering, models, surveys, interviews and analytics.
• Experience with statistical and financial modelling methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Analyze primary and secondary data to generate actionable insights for client brands and business outcomes.
• Coordinate with cross-office teams to develop proposals and deliverables.
• Mentor junior team members and maintain high-quality analytics capabilities.
• Act as a data-driven consultant to connect and analyse disparate data sources and build financial models.

Skills

Brand strategy

Data analytics

Market research

Statistical modelling

Job description

Landor is looking for a Freelance Brand Performance Director to join our Chicago studio. Could this be you?

We are Landor, part of WPP

World-leading brand experts,

underpinned by the most expansive strategic & creative capabilities in our category.

We make brands more valuable and less vulnerable.

We build brands differently. We work with our clients to define and solve their business problems through the lens of brand. We strategically join the dots between our design, experience, governance and measurement capabilities, and always connect our brand work to business outcomes.

Landor companies also include amp (sonic branding), bdg (workplace & architectural experts), Deep Local (creative technologists) and ManvsMachine (3D motion design).

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

What you’ll do

As part of the Brand Performance team, a Director at Landor will partner with the Global team to contribute to the delivery of key strategic projects that enable brand and business transformation for our clients. The Director will build a robust Brand Performance offer that strongly supports our strategic and creative effort, maintains our currency as a top-tier brand consultancy, and establishes new thinking and approaches to augment our current offer.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensures analysis and synthesis of primary and secondary data sources - from existing client financial data and research, new primary quantitative studies, and proprietary WPP data - to generate actionable insights that can impact clients and their business.
• Gains and maintains an in-depth understanding of clients’ businesses and industries.
• Takes day-to-day responsibility for running client projects.
• Identifies, recruits and manages Brand Performance suppliers, to include working with best-in-class vendors including boutique and global, specialist and generalist, custom and syndicated, B2B and B2C.
• Educates and trains Landor colleagues to build knowledge and comfort with the requirements of great analytics and brand measurement - what it is, what it costs, how long it takes, etc.
• Acts as a data-driven consultant to Landor colleagues and clients, designing and executing approaches to connect and analyze disparate data sources, including large proprietary market research and analytics studies, and the ability to create 5-year financial models
• Partners with Executive Directors and mentors/coaches junior team members to deliver Analytics and Brand Measurement & Monetization tools across a wide range of clients’ business challenges
• Supports the evolution of our offer to meet the needs of our clients and establish clear processes to ensure successful delivery.
• Understands the current consulting offers and deliverables, makes recommendations on areas of improvement with a view to standardise the workflow, approach, and deliverables.
• Acts as an advocate for Brand Performance and builds team credentials through building case studies and inspirational content to demonstrate team capabilities.
• Supports the Growth and Client Services teams to review client RFPs or business opportunities and define the Brand Performance needs by providing the right approach to meet the client brief.
• Partners with cross-office project teams to develop proposals, pitch materials, and articulate scopes of work, defining the Brand Performance needs with creativity, precision and efficiency.
• Supports the Global Brand Performance team in the creation of new Landor IP.
• Builds the trust and respect of the senior leadership teams through expertise, insight creation and analysis, clear guidance and coaching in expertise area.
• Instils confidence in clients and prospects via strong and persuasive presentation skills.

What you’ll need

• Passionate about brands, audience & market trends and commercial impact, as well as exploring how new methodologies & data sets can answer client briefs.
• Experience translating insights from research and data into actionable recommendations on client brand and business strategies, with proven strategic thinking and execution skills.
• Track record of developing and managing data gathering, models, surveys, interviews and other methods for utilising insights and analytics.
• Extensive experience and capability working with applied statistical and financial modelling methodologies across a range of quantification, measurement, and modelling approaches.

The hourly rate for this temporary position at the time of this posting may range from $100/hr to $155/hr. Individual compensation varies based on job related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click WPP Benefits for more details.

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.

We build brands. We build futures. Landor, a WPP company, is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics, committed to a culture of respect where everyone belongs and can progress in their careers.