Mindshare data Science Director

**Overview of job**

**Reporting of the role**

This role reports to The Chief Data Strategy & Analytics Officer (CDSAO) APAC.

**3 best things about the job**:

- Lead client-facing work for a team of specialists serving iconic brands in the world’s most exciting super-regional market
- Work with world leading technologist from partners such as Google, Meta, etc to drive innovative new approaches to data strategy and analytics delivery
- Connect the dots between advertising investment and business return for the world’s largest and most successful media agency

**Key responsibilities of the role**:

- Act as a senior consultant and trusted adviser, build a strong, collaborative relationship with client executive leadership, educating and embedding the DS&A practice to drive business outcomes.
- Collaborate with client leaders and other internal capabilities to identify growth opportunities for DS&A services, developing both strategic roadmaps and tactical executions to optimise client return on investment.
- Build a strong working relationship within local market, regional and Global leadership teams across GroupM and WPP’s network, understanding technology, partnerships and market opportunities to develop and deliver the best-in-class DS&A products and services proposition.
- Work closely with Mindshare’s CDSAO APAC to build and scale a super-regional DS&A capability, leveraging Global products and services investments into APAC.
- Scope, estimate, lead and deliver DS&A projects for clients, leveraging local market, regional and global talent to provide award winning services to clients.
- Provide technical and thought leadership in the domains of data management, automation, analytics and insights, data science and ML/AI.
- Manage and coach a growing team of more junior DS&A teams members, developing them to help realise their full potential

**What you will need**:
- 7-10 years of relevant experience in data, analytics and data science practice, preferably with time spent both in consultancy and enterprise delivery.
- Extensive experience in data and analytics practice in paid media (agency, client, or vendor side), in both traditional and digital advertising platforms, combined with knowledge of practice in owned media, CRM and digital experience platforms
- Experience managing large data and analytics projects, including scoping and estimation, requirements gathering, data science development and client delivery.
- Master’s degree in relevant technical domain (Maths, Statistics, Computing, Data Science, Econometrics, ML/AI etc)
- Demonstratable commercial acumen, ability to translate business problems into DS&A opportunities, clearly and succinctly expressing complex technical ideas for a no-technical audience.
- A motived, self-starter with demonstratable business and team leadership capabilities; able to both influence executive leaders and inspire and coach aspiring practitioners.
- A team player with a track record of delivering outstanding results in a sophisticated, matrix organisation, managing complexity outcomes both vertically and laterally
- Hands-on, practical experience in data and analytics tools of the trade, including Cloud Data Management, Automation and Engineering technologies (Azure, GCP, Snowflake etc), and BI, Analytics and Data Science platforms (Power BI, Data Robot etc)
- Strong hands-on practical experience in data science development in languages such as Python, R, SQL, Java, Tensorflow, etc

**About Mindshare**

Mindshare, the global media agency network, and part of WPP, the largest marketing communications network in the world, has more than 7,000 employees, in 116 offices across 86 countries. Mindshare APAC has won over 300 awards in 2014/2015 and was the most awarded agency at the 2015 Campaign Asia Awards Festival. Mindshare was also recognised as the SMARTIES APAC ‘Agency Network of the Year 2015’ for the third consecutive year. Mindshare is also home to The 2015 Festival of Media Asia Pacific Rising Star - Jason Maggs.

**GroupM APAC is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential.