About the role

  • Senior analytics leader driving growth across strategic retail client portfolio at dentsu. Partnering with internal teams to deliver measurable impact in analytics and AI solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Strategic Retail Clients to be a senior advisor, embedding analytics into business-critical functions.
  • Build and lead hybrid teams (onshore + offshore) that deliver scalable, high-quality, and innovative analytics solutions.
  • Work with enterprise sales and client partners to identify, shape, and pursue new analytics opportunities.
  • Define and evangelize our analytics vision—extending beyond marketing into commercial functions.
  • Lead solutioning efforts, go-to-market strategies, and proposal development that position us as a differentiated partner.
  • Build, mentor, and scale hybrid analytics teams, fostering innovation, accountability, and excellence.
  • Stay ahead of market trends in data science, AI/ML, data engineering, and latest retail technologies.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in analytics consulting or professional services, with a strong focus on retail and commercial analytics.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative or business discipline (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, Engineering, or MBA).
  • Experience with building and scaling analytics programs across sales, pricing, merchandising, supply chain, and go-to-market functions.
  • Demonstrated success leading hybrid teams (onshore client-facing + offshore/global delivery) and managing revenue and margin outcomes.
  • Hands-on practitioner who can dive into technical detail, including solution design, code reviews, and analytics execution.
  • Grounding in data engineering and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), given the significant role of data engineering in retail analytics.
  • Familiarity with competitive intelligence techniques, web scraping technologies, and modern data pipelines.
  • Exceptional communication skills, executive presence, and ability to influence at the C-suite level.
  • Must be open to travel.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • 401k
  • Flexible paid time off
  • At least 15 paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick and safe leave
  • Paid parental leave

Job title

VP, Commerce Analytics

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$196,000 - $316,250 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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