Kantar · 9 hours ago
Head of Dx Analytics
Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company, seeking a strategic analytics leader to head their Digital Analytics practice in North America. The role involves team leadership, business development, and delivering digital insights solutions to clients, while collaborating with various internal teams to enhance analytics capabilities.
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Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and empower a multidisciplinary closely-knit digital analytics team (data analysts, consultants, and data scientists)
Nurture talent and create clear opportunities for growth, skill building, and career development; proactively invest in upskilling and coaching the team
Set vision and roadmap for the digital analytics function, including new capabilities, tools, and standardized frameworks
Provide ongoing feedback to global product team as client needs evolve
Drive a culture of curiosity, craft, and continual improvement
Responsible for commercial activation, engage and embed digital capability into solution teams (brand, innovation, media, customer experience, brand strategy & consulting) and drive profitable revenue growth
Support revenue growth through proposal leadership, client retention, and expansion
Drive thought leadership to drive salience
Partner with business development on proposals, scoping, and new business pitches
Serve as the senior analytics partner for key clients, presenting insights and advising executives on brand, digital, and customer experience strategy
Translate business questions into analytical frameworks and measurable outcomes
Guide clients through complex findings with clear storytelling rooted in data
Oversee end-to-end analytics on projects
Ensure analytical rigor and actionable recommendations in all deliverables
Create space for team members to stretch into new responsibilities
Work closely with solution teams for integrated insights
Own staffing, resourcing, project margin hygiene, and team utilization
Evolve hybrid delivery models (onshore/offshore as needed) to scale the practice profitably
Refine standardized analytics products and adopt repeatable frameworks (dashboards, competitive scorecards, brand tracking, AI-driven insight tools, etc.)
Identify opportunities for automation, AI/LLMs, and scalable data pipelines to improve efficiency and depth of insight
Establish quality standards, processes, and best practices for analytics delivery
Help refine the NA Analytics strategy and drive the ONE TEAM mindset
Engage with other practice leads and teams to identify commercial synergies to grow the Analytics portfolio (x-sell across Analytics solutions)
Qualification
Required
Ability to be flexible, scrapy, and comfortable with ambiguity
12+ years of experience in analytics, insights, data strategy, or related functions—preferably within a creative, digital, consulting, or customer experience environment
Proven track record of being able to grow business and work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams (i.e. solution, business development, client partners and insights delivery)
Proven track record of building high-performing teams by upscaling and motivating talent
Demonstrated ability to lead analytics teams to deliver complex, multi-workstream programs while ensuring highest levels of client satisfaction
Ability to balance and guide technical and analytical work with leadership and vision-setting
Deep experience translating data into strategic recommendations
Comfortable presenting to senior audience (internally/externally)
Experience delivering standardized analytics solutions with an onshore/offshore model is a plus
Ability to learn new offers and bring them to market
Experience working with data; experience with digital datasets including search data, social listening data (e.g., Brandwatch, NetBase, Meltwater), and website analytics data
Benefits
Medical plans with comprehensive, affordable coverage for a range of health services
Health Savings Account/FSA
Dental, Vision and benefits to cover unique healthcare needs
Wellness Program
401k with match
Tuition Reimbursement, Commuter benefits
Unlimited PTO
Company
Kantar
Kantar is the data investment management division of WPP, is a global insight, information, and consultancy network.
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.86B2025-02-07Debt Financing· $1.86B
2025-01-17Acquired
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2025-11-10
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