Senior Director, Business Enablement - Temporary Worker

Job Description:

Temporary assignment starting ASAP for 6 months.

The Sr. Director of Strategy, Consulting & Advisory is a trusted leader who guides all cross-functional projects with an emphasis on Customer Marketing Data, Strategy, & Analytics solutions. This role sets the standard for how strategic marketing plans, data, and technology come together to drive measurable growth. They provide key insights through data analysis to inform strategic planning and initiative prioritization. The successful candidate will have retail and or auto marketing strategy experience.

Responsibilities

• •Independently develop long-term roadmaps and use cases for workstreams to execute against
• •Support the planning, prioritization, and execution of marketing initiatives, ensuring activities are aligned with business objectives, target outcomes, and measurable performance goals.
• •Monitor performance and outcomes, interpret results, and identify opportunities to improve effectiveness. Apply insights from data, research, and trends to inform data-driven strategic recommendations.
• •Lead strategic planning and initiative prioritization
• •Recommend insights-to-action for strategic and long-term planning leveraging value-based measurement across client marketing leads to drive data-enriched activation
• •Identify opportunities for cross-solutioning within client’s ecosystem to drive incremental value
• •Teach, coach and train direct and indirect reports on how to best identify and execute the solutions driven through data, analytics, and technology available to support the strategic plans for the organization
• •Ability to connect capability challenges or goals to business needs and build compelling stories to articulate incremental value
• •Hands-on ability to create and support executive level presentations and analyses of analytic, data and identity solutions to support client needs
• •Ability to translate data/results into clear narratives for tech and non-tech audiences across different communication channels, i.e. ppt, email etc.
• •Assess market trends and incorporate external insights to recommend potential product and market level opportunities for client growth
• •Partner with client to develop use cases for activation across brand market segment teams
• •Align with Analytics, Marketing, and Media partners on marketing and measurement plans to support activation efforts
• •Collaborate cross-functionally to drive integrated process for the utilization and advancement of data and analytics
• •Ability to interpret media results and develop in period adjustments to drive improved results in targeted stores

Skills

• •Executive-level written and verbal communication
• •Strong active-listening skills, with ability to discern client needs
• •Proven people-management skills: coaching, developing, and holding managers accountable to clear success criteria.
• •Expert-level at PowerPoint
• •Confident with building interactive roadmaps and program plans to drive strategic growth
• •High emotional intelligence, with sound judgment to navigate organizational and relationship dynamics across client and internal stakeholders
• •Ability to leverage data and insights for story-telling and solution application
• •Ability to translate ambiguous requests and requirements into tangible and tactical solutions
• •Ability to manage both client and agency teams to facilitate timely and actionable solutions
• •High business acumen and the ability to connect business challenges analytic and data led solutions

Required experience:

• •10+ years in marketing strategy, business consulting, data strategy and or strategic planning functions
• •8+ years of cross-team leadership over multiple business and strategic disciplines
• •Experience across both agency and corporate environments
• •Experience guiding and planning work products from technical and strategic teams
• •Corporate Retail Experience preferred

The hourly pay range for this position is $120.00 - $140.56. The hourly pay rate for the successful candidate is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law. Temporary employees are eligible for paid holidays in accordance with dentsu policy, as well as safe and sick time. This position is not eligible for any other benefits or other compensation.

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.

To begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.

At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we’re connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office.

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Location:

Chicago - N. State

Brand:

Merkle

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Temporary

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