Global Head of Analytics

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential marketing services organization in their search for a Global Head of Analytics based in London (hybrid, 2-3 days per week on-site). This is a senior leadership role with genuine global scope. You'll lead a team of approximately 80 analytics professionals distributed across Europe, APAC, LATAM, and North America, spanning audience insight, creative performance analytics, social listening and measurement, search marketing, and paid social disciplines.

Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, you will:

• Provide strategic leadership to a globally distributed analytics practice with six direct reports across multiple disciplines and regions
• Build and sustain a high-performance, collaborative team culture across diverse, multi-disciplinary groups
• Define and evolve analytics methodologies, tools, and frameworks across search, paid social, social listening, audience insight, and measurement
• Ensure the team has engineering capability to integrate data sources and build automated solutions at scale
• Own the analytics revenue line with accountability for delivering 10% year-on-year growth
• Identify and develop new commercial opportunities, expanding services within existing client relationships and contributing to new business development
• Work with senior client stakeholders to demonstrate and quantify the value of data-led decision-making
• Partner with technology leaders to co-develop proprietary data products and analytics capabilities, particularly focused on creative effectiveness
• Lead the scaling of Gen AI-enabled data products, including trend and competitor reporting tools and automated social reporting
• Play a central role in ensuring proprietary Gen AI platforms are optimally enabled by data and insight
• Stay at the frontier of Gen AI developments relevant to marketing analytics and bring new ideas into the business
• Build strong relationships across the broader organization, contributing to group-wide data strategy and product development

What We're Looking For

Our client seeks a candidate with:

• Significant senior leadership experience in analytics, data strategy, or a related discipline, ideally within a creative or media agency, platform, or technology business
• A track record of building and scaling high-performing, multi-disciplinary analytics teams in a global or multi-market context
• Demonstrable success growing revenue and commercialising data or insight propositions
• Experience developing and launching data products or insight tools, ideally in collaboration with technology partners
• Deep familiarity with the marketing analytics landscape: performance measurement, audience insight, social listening, search, paid social, and creative effectiveness
• Exceptional strategic thinking—the ability to connect data to business outcomes in ways that resonate with C-suite and board-level stakeholders
• Strong commercial instincts with experience identifying, shaping, and closing revenue opportunities
• Outstanding communication and storytelling skills—able to make complex data feel clear, relevant, and actionable
• Ability to lead and inspire distributed, culturally diverse teams across multiple time zones
• Experience navigating and influencing complex, matrixed organisations
• Genuine fluency in Gen AI and its applications in marketing and data—including hands-on experience building agents and agentic workflows
• P&L management experience across multiple markets or business lines
• Track record of presenting financial performance to executive and board-level stakeholders

Formal qualifications are welcome but not required. Equivalent experience gained through work, independent research, or professional practice is valued.

How We Work with You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai will guide you through the entire process. When you apply through our platform, a dedicated recruiter will screen your background and experience. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the hiring organization directly—all communication and coordination will flow through Get A Job.ai to ensure the best candidate experience.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.

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