Strategic Data Solutions - MG OMD
About the Role:
The Data Solutions Director is a critical leadership role within the Data & Technology team, providing strategic and operational support to the Data Solutions Business Director and essential to drive forward some of the agency’s most important data workstreams. This individual will play a key role in shaping and delivering the future of reporting, data automation, and platform integration for the agency and its clients.
As the team scales and the demand for more advanced reporting, data quality, and automation grows, this role will ensure continuity of leadership, increase delivery capacity, and support the development of future-ready reporting infrastructure. The Data Solutions Director will act as a trusted lead for both internal teams and clients, and will have autonomy to lead on high importance workstreams.
Key Responsibilities
- Leadership of Core Workstreams
- Take ownership of critical reporting and data workstreams—e.g., Power BI deployment, data and reporting automation, dashboarding standards.
- Drive the MG Data Environment implementation and ensure platform readiness for future automation.
- Lead the delivery of key client projects where required.
- Strategic & Operational Support
- Support in managing team priorities, project tracking, and stakeholder engagement.
- Represent the Data Solutions team in agency-wide forums and cross-functional initiatives.
- Develop commercial proposals and solutions
- Client Engagement & Delivery
- Act as a senior client-facing lead on key accounts where reporting, automation, or platform integration is central.
- Ensure the quality, consistency, and strategic relevance of reporting outputs across clients.
- Build trusted relationships with client leads, data owners, and other internal stakeholders.
- Team Development & Structure
- Provide day-to-day leadership to team members across reporting and data delivery.
- Support the development team members, creating growth and accountability within the team.
- Help define and embed a clear team operating model to support future scaling.
- Platform & Technical Oversight
- Work closely with platform owners (e.g., Datorama, Power BI) to ensure solutions are sustainable, maintainable, and aligned with agency vision.
- Champion the adoption of self-serve tools, consistent dashboard design standards, and data integrity principles.
Experience and Capability
- Proven experience in leading data and reporting projects within a media, marketing, or technology environment.
- Strong understanding of data visualisation tools (especially Power BI), dashboarding best practices, and data pipeline design.
- Capable of translating complex data requirements into client-ready solutions and narratives.
- Strong communicator who can engage confidently with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- Experienced in managing and developing teams, with a passion for growing talent.
- Comfortable balancing strategic thinking and hands-on delivery.
About the Agency:
MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft, trust and performance at the heart of media planning and buying.
Since joining Omnicom network’s OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998, we have continued to retain our founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches, unprecedented insight, specialism, security and transparency; helping our clients to use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative, effective and award-winning work and campaigns that create difference that matters.
MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK. We are the most awarded media agency in both the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkbox’s TV Planning Awards and have this year been named as Agency of the Year in The Media Leader UK awards, Campaign Global awards and Campaign UK awards.
With over 500 employees working across some of the UK’s leading brands including the John Lewis Partnership, Virgin Media O2, British Airways, Specsavers, HM Government, LNER, Sony Pictures and Age UK; it is our people who ultimately make the award-winning difference.
So, true to our ethos, we work hard at creating a spirit and atmosphere that inspires our people to be considerate, honest, and professional whilst also being stimulating, imaginative and inspirational.
We want people who are great to work with, fun to be with and who genuinely care; about each other, our clients, our media partners and doing great work.
In return, we provide an amazingly collaborative culture, where open communication and an unwavering commitment to diversity of thinking, diversity of background and diversity of skillsets runs through everything we do. All backed up by the highest standards of training, development and support in the industry; so much so, that we have attained IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) CPD Gold Accreditation for the 13th year running and maintained our CPD Platinum Accreditation for the 7th consecutive year, showcasing our commitment to continuous professional development. We were also featured in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in both 2023 and 2024. Our being named is completely based on the opinions and perspectives of our employees which makes the accolade all that more special.
Flexible Working
At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that’s in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.
We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.
Be Your Best
We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable, you can email us confidentially at beyourbest@omnicommediagroup.com to let us know how we can support you.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OMG
At OMG, our vision is to be an agency where difference is valued and everyone is able to thrive in a culture of equality, inclusion and belonging. We are committed to providing a truly inclusive environment that reflects today’s society, where everyone is able to bring their true selves to work, and where diverse voices and backgrounds are valued, heard, and well-represented.
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