Global Head of Analytics
- london, england, United Kingdom
- Permanent·On-site
- Full time
- £150 - £210 Per Day
Job Description
Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.
As a part of The Brandtech Group , we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.
Role: Global Head of Analytics
Location: London, United Kingdom (2-3 days a week from our London offices)
Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.
As a part of The Brandtech Group , we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.
Role: Global Head of Analytics
Location: London, United Kingdom (2-3 days a week from our London offices)
About the role:
We'relooking for a Global Head of Analytics to lead one of the most important practices in our business. This is a senior leadership role with genuine scope; you'll own a global team of around 80 people, spanning audience insight, creative performance analytics, social listening and measurement, search marketing and paid social, all embedded within in-house client teams across Europe, APAC, LATAM and North America.
Reporting toOLIVER’sChief Strategy Officer,you'llsit at the intersection of creativity,technologyand data.You’llhelpOLIVER and our clients understand not justwhat'sperforming, butwhy, and what to do next.You’llspearheadnew solutionsin driving creativeeffectiveness, andproving the value ofthecreativecomponentof our clients’ marketing.
You’llwork closely withBrandtechcolleagues inpackagingand scaling Group data solutions to drivemore value from marketing.
You'llalso play akeyrole, with yourBrandtechcolleagues,in shaping how our proprietary Gen AI platform, Pencil, is powered by data and insight;makingit smarter,fasterand more impactful for the clients who rely on it.
This is a role for someone who is as comfortable in a client boardroom as they are in a product sprint. Someone who can inspire a globally distributed team, spot commercial opportunity andtranslate complex data into stories that help businesses make better decisions.
What you will be doing:
- Lead and develop the global analytics practice
- Provide leadership to a globally distributed team of :80 analysts and insight specialists, with six direct reports across disciplines and regions
- Build and sustain a high-performance, collaborative team culture across a diverse, multi-disciplinary group
- Define and continuously evolve OLIVER's analytics methodologies, tools and frameworks across search, paid social, social listening, audience insight and measurement — ensuring best practice is shared and applied globally
- Ensure the team has the engineering capability to integrate data sources and build automated solutions at scale
- Champion data and insight as a strategic differentiator — internally at OLIVER and externally with clients
What you need to be great in this role:
- 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: experienced in 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
- Experienced in navigating and influencing complex, matrixed organisations
- Sets the AI strategy for the analytics discipline across OLIVER's global portfolio
- Genuine fluency in Gen AI and its applications in marketing and data — including hands‑on experience building agents and agentic workflows
- Develops AI capability across teams and client offerings; embeds AI-powered insight into client workflows at scale
- Leads governance and quality standards for AI-assisted analytics across the practice
- Contributes thought leadership on AI's role in data, creativity and marketing — internally across Brandtech and externally in the industry
- Accountability for the analytics revenue line and year-on-year growth targets
- Experience building and presenting commercial propositions from data and insight capabilities
- 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 counts. Experience can be gained through work, independent research, or professional practice.
Our values shape everything we do:
Be Ambitious to succeed
Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible
Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work
Be always learningand listening to understand
Be Results-focused to exceed expectations
Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations
Our recruitment process does not employ artificial intelligence. Candidate evaluation and selection are conducted without AI-supported screening or decision-making.
OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.
OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.
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