Data & Analytics Partner
No salary listed
Expert
London, UK
HybridFour days in the office per week on average.
ConsultingTechnology & Systems Consulting
About the job
Requirements
- Exceptional experience leading data and analytics in a consulting or agency environment, including setting up teams and operating models with clients.
- Experience building relationships with clients from junior to C-suite levels and handling complex stakeholder personalities.
- Ability to unify people across diverse skill sets behind a clear brief or goal and deliver work for clients.
- Ability to engage people through presentation skills and use active listening to create clear actions that meet client needs.
- Significant experience scoping, resourcing, and developing commercial proposals.
- Knowledge of data and analytics technologies across the marketing and digital ecosystem, including media, commerce, social and digital platforms, customer relationship management, and loyalty.
- Knowledge of analytics solutions and how artificial intelligence can be leveraged in marketing to drive growth; a technical analytics background is advantageous.
- Knowledge of data strategy consulting, including data landscapes covering first-, second-, and third-party data, data management, governance, roadmaps, and use-case development.
- Knowledge of analytics and artificial intelligence, including segmentation, predictive modelling, measurement and reporting, artificial-intelligence marketing applications, and product development.
- Knowledge of marketing technologies, including data cloud solutions, clean rooms, analytics and reporting tools, customer data platforms, customer relationship management and marketing automation, and artificial-intelligence technologies.
- Knowledge of marketing operations, including operating models, process design, governance, data culture and skills development, client enablement, and business change.
Responsibilities
- Set up and lead a client-oriented team of data, technology, and business consultants, analysts, and engineers.
- Oversee client onboarding plans and manage team workload.
- Direct and motivate the team to help members achieve their goals and deliver work for clients.
- Act as a strategic partner and advisor, helping clients leverage data, marketing technology, analytics, and artificial intelligence to achieve their goals and improve effectiveness and efficiency.
- Develop proposals and methodologies for data and analytics consulting across data, marketing technology, artificial intelligence, and operations.
- Develop data, artificial-intelligence, marketing-technology, and advertising-technology transformation roadmaps, measurement frameworks, and associated operating models.
- Deliver analytics and data science solutions covering customer analytics, customer segmentation, predictive modelling, digital analytics, journey analysis, web and application analysis, media analysis, business intelligence, dashboard reporting, and conversational business intelligence.
- Provide thought leadership and promote best practices to clients and across VML.
- Work with clients to diagnose and solve challenges, support their data and artificial-intelligence vision, and implement solutions.
- Drive client success and satisfaction.
- Serve as the data and analytics lead for new-business pitches, proposals, and presentations.
- Generate new ideas and opportunities to grow existing clients and extend the data offering to clients in other disciplines.
Desired Qualifications
- A technical analytics background.
About the company
Wunderman Thompson blends creative advertising, data-driven consultancy, and technology to drive growth for brands. It delivers creative campaigns and brand strategies, uses data and insights to help businesses transform, and offers technology solutions such as WaterLight, a product that converts salt water into electrical power. The company earns revenue through project-based fees, retainers, and performance-based incentives. It differentiates itself with an integrated approach that combines creativity, data, and technology, backed by global clients and award-winning work. Its goal is to help ambitious brands grow by delivering measurable, impactful results.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
M&A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1958
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- VML won Kohl's digital transformation work, signaling sticky enterprise demand in 2025.
- Healthcare and B2B remain strong; VML cites these as core growth categories.
- VML kept winning awards in 2026, including Gold at the ANDY Awards.
What critics are saying
- WPP cut hundreds of jobs in 2026, with VML employees notified directly.
- The FTC and eight states sued WPP in April 2026 over ad-buying practices.
- VML's brand is gone; integration into VML creates execution risk and identity drift.
What makes Wunderman Thompson unique
- Wunderman Thompson lives on inside VML, uniting commerce, data, and creative scale.
- VML combines 30,000 people across 64 markets, giving global delivery depth.
- WPP Open gives VML proprietary AI tooling with OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- 401(k) Company Match
- Paid Vacation