Senior Consultant, Data Strategy

Company Description

About Us
About Publicis Sapient Most companies in the AI era do one of two things: they advise, or they sell you a tool. We do both. Publicis Sapient is a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services, which means we build our own AI platforms and bring the strategists, product thinkers, designers and engineers who make them work inside the world's most complex businesses. It's where people and products shape the future of enterprise, and where your ideas actually reach the organizations that run the world. If you want to question how things are done, learn continuously and do the best work of your career alongside 20,000 people across 28 countries, you're in the right place. Come build with us. Our Commitment to Inclusive Hiring We are committed to fostering and encouraging an inclusive and welcoming environment for everyone and we believe great talent comes from many different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. That's why we're committed to creating a hiring process where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed and feel safe. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and identities including: race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion and value the diverse experiences, perspectives, and strengths they bring to our teams. If there's anything we can do to make our recruitment process more accessible or comfortable for you, please let us know. We're happy to provide reasonable adjustments throughout the application and interview process. You can contact us anytime at emeahiringteam@publicissapient.com. Your Safety Matters To Us At Publicis Sapient, we're committed to protecting candidates throughout every step of their journey with us. To help you stay safe from recruitment scams, please remember that our recruiters will only ever contact you from a Publicis Sapient email address. In some cases, we may partner with trusted, vetted recruitment agencies who will clearly identify themselves as working on behalf of Publicis Sapient. If you receive communication from any other domain claiming to represent us, please treat it with caution and contact us at emeahiring@pubicissapient.com Overview Why This Role Matters Manager Data Strategy Do you want to join a global organization that is revolutionizing the digital landscape? Today, as clients across industries are moving from digitally extending their businesses to placing digital at the core, Publicis Sapient has an unprecedented opportunity to help them succeed.
As a digital business transformation partner of choice, we've spent nearly three decades utilizing the disruptive power of technology and ingenuity to help digitally enable our clients' business in their pursuit of next. We bring a startup mindset and agile methods to both established companies and the public sector to unlock value in ways that delight their customers and improve their operational effectiveness. Our approach to transformation is grounded in a view of both the company and the customers simultaneously, and a unique fusing of strategy and consulting, experience and engineering with an enduring culture of problem-solving creativity.
In the space between next and now is how. And we believe that how you seize that space is everything Our ambition is to create an environment where data scientists and artificial intelligence experts can tackle some of today's most complex, strategic operational challenges. To make this happen we require the brightest minds in strategy to focus on data. This new venture will deliver predictive analytics solutions to leading businesses. It's an opportunity to design, build, and implement practical, end-to-end platforms that help the world's most recognized brands to make smarter decisions and provide more valuable services to their customers. With mentorship from both companies and the agility of a startup, we're building something from the ground up with deep resources, alongside a team of the world's premier talent in data science. Where You’ll Make an Impact
• The purpose of the Manager, Data & AI Strategy is to work with clients undergoing a data-driven transformation (DDT) across the globe.
• The Manager, Data & AI Strategy will accelerate and drive the DDT strategy for clients, working in partnership with client-facing leads, client teams, and practice capability.
• The role will be a key contributor in ensuring the agency is an industry leader in AI and data thinking, execution, and value realization for clients through data-driven solutions.
• Lead execution of data
- and AI-driven program approach across teams, supporting client-facing leads in the development of data and AI strategies for their client, setting best practice approaches, and educating client-facing teams.
• Provide strategic direction on data and AI-driven thought leadership agenda for strategic partners
• Lead the continuous embedding of new data-driven and AI-driven approaches and case studies into our client engagement framework and agency collateral
• Be a key driver of new business pitches and prototyping work
• Leads the definition of data-driven learning agendas, use cases for AI and technology adoption, data strategy as well as owning partner evaluation, selection, and integration, and finally activation on client accounts.
• The requirement of the role is both strategic as well as executional, leading the activation of data-driven and AI-powered business solutions. Candidates must bring solid, hands-on knowledge of data and AI, and should have at least one industry vertical (e.g. retail, financial services, healthcare, media, manufacturing) they know well and can apply that knowledge to.
• Responsible for ensuring the data and AI strategy and measurement frameworks align, and securing client approval and driving adoption
• Working with client teams, strategy leads, and delivery leads to define an audience or data domain framework and data strategy for each client's business, brand, or overall portfolio, tapping into relevant data partners, and first-party data
• Grow the use of data and AI platforms (e.g. CDPs, data lakes, ML/AI platforms) in data-driven use cases, application in business initiatives, and general adoption through strategy to connect to a wider spectrum of datasets, particularly 1P and 2P data
• Support the development of technology-based platforms and applications as a data and AI strategist, providing data and AI thought leadership alongside Publicis Sapient data & tech talent as well as partner agencies
• Function as the data and AI technology and strategy subject matter expert, acting as a client steward and trusted partner, ensuring the technology ecosystem fits together while leading the implementation of any desired changes and proactively suggesting optimizations to improve data fluidity, reducing data loss / improving data match rates
• Work with client and internal teams to provide guidance on how data and AI can be utilized to inform annual planning insights and work with the team to help inform how data and AI integration evolves the planning process What You’ll Bring to the Team
• Strong data & ai knowledge, able to interpret client business/technical requirements, and support in translating these into clearly articulated, parceled up learning agendas and strategies to accelerate how data , AI, and technology support the maximization of client business outcomes.
• Practical grounding in at least one industry (e.g. retail, financial services, healthcare, media, manufacturing), with an understanding of how data and AI create value in that context.
• Knowledgeable about data and AI capabilities/use cases, data types, sources, partners, and what defines the quality of data; expert in leveraging data and AI in a business context for activation, measurement as well as strategic applications
• Excellent storytelling and communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex data and AI concepts and distill them to their core ideas, themes, insights, and recommendations
• Architect innovative and highly effective data and AI strategies, communication plans, and integrated solutions.
• Curate a culture of learning in data and AI tools, case studies, new partners, and techniques
• High sense of ownership, drive, agenda setting
• Strong team player with a can-do attitude and an ability to simplify as well as go into detail when necessary
• Aggressive appetite for learning and broadening/deepening skill set as needed
• Ability to establish, manage and grow senior client relationships
• Ability to motivate and lead a team of data and AI resources as well as the broader cross-functional team to project completion
• Ability to identify new business opportunities and value pools and propositions within the client's business and drive account growth
• Ability to quantify and communicate impact-driven by the team through strategic, data-driven and AI-driven solutions and work Additional Information What You’ll Get in Return
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• Be at the forefront of digital transformation
• "Plugged" into a truly global organization with a start-up mindset
• Career growth and training opportunities
• A collaborative, agile and diverse regional team
• Comprehensive insurance and medical benefits