Director, Audience Analytics & Insights

WHO IS HUDSON ROUGE

Hudson Rouge (a VML company) is a luxury boutique marketing and communications agency that works solely on luxury brands and is the exclusive agency of record for the Lincoln Automotive business across all channels. We combine brand strategy media strategy activation digital social earned media production and analytics to provide exquisitely crafted creativity. We are a small group of people spread across several offices New York Detroit Shanghai Toronto and Mexico City and we care for each other as much as we care for our clients. We are an agency that prides itself on doing the un-usual and we also look for unusual talent: people who are excited about doing their best work and want to grow with us. We are an agency that prides itself on the highest levels of craft and concept

PRIMARY FUNCTION / POSITION SUMMARY:

We are looking for a strategic storyteller and analytical leader on our Marketing Analytics Team. This role is equal parts client partner insight translator and data strategist. You will work directly with clients and cross-functional stakeholders to understand their business challenges then navigate a wide variety of disparate data sources to uncover answers and build compelling data-driven narratives. While the primary focus is audience-related identifying analyzing and activating different customer segments the work spans the full scope of marketing strategy.

This is not a traditional reporting role. You will be responsible for scoping creating developing and presenting data-heavy marketing analyses that drive real business decisions for a Fortune 100 automotive manufacturer. The ideal candidate is someone who deeply understands data in its many forms knows how to connect insights across sources and can confidently present a strategic point of view to senior stakeholders.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITES:

• Client Partnership & Strategic Consultation:Serve as a trusted advisor and day-to-day partner for senior clients. Proactively identify business challenges translate them into analytical questions and present findings in a way that resonates with non-technical audiences. Act as the connective tissue between the analytics team and client/agency stakeholders.
• Team Leadership:Serve as the operational lead of the analytics team helping to prioritize workstreams mentor junior analysts and ensure quality and consistency across deliverables. Help shape the teams strategic direction and elevate its profile within the agency.
• Audience Discovery & Segmentation:Lead the approach to understanding customer demographics psychographics behaviors and motivations. Define audience frameworks that inform media creative and broader marketing strategy.
• Strategic Storytelling:Scope develop and present data-rich analyses that translate complex findings into clear persuasive narratives for senior management and clients. Own the consumer perspective narrative and ensure every deliverable tells a coherent story.
• Data Navigation & Synthesis:Identify access and synthesize information across a wide variety of data sources and formats including databases flat files third-party research tools CRM platforms and unstructured data. You dont need to write complex scripts yourself but you must understand the data landscape well enough to guide the team and ensure analytical rigor.
• Stakeholder Communication:Lead discovery conversations with clients and internal teams to deeply understand business needs before jumping into analysis. Translate ambiguous or undefined requests into structured actionable analytical plans.
• Analysis & Recommendation:Conduct and oversee exploratory analyses to answer high-stakes business questions. Generate actionable recommendations grounded in data and deliver them with confidence and clarity.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Strategic Storytelling:Exceptional ability to build narratives from data. You can take a complex dataset and distill it into a clear compelling story for C-level and client audiences.
• Client & Stakeholder Management:Strong interpersonal and communication skills. You are comfortable leading meetings facilitating discovery sessions and presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Leadership & Mentorship:Experience managing or mentoring analysts. You can elevate a teams work set standards for quality and help develop talent.
• Data Fluency:Deep understanding of data in its different forms (structured unstructured survey behavioral third-party etc.) and how to combine different data types to build a business case or analyze a customer segment. You should be comfortable working in or around database environments (e.g. Snowflake Databricks).
• Technical Literacy:You dont need to be a daily coder but you should be able to read and understand SQL and have a working familiarity with tools like Python or R. Proficiency is a plus but the ability to understand and guide technical work is the baseline.
• Data Visualization:Experience creating polished insight-driven visualizations and presentations (e.g. PowerBI Tableau or similar tools).
• Strategic Mindset:You lead with the business question not the technology. You deeply understand the problem before choosing the method.
• Ambiguity Management:Comfort operating in environments with undefined requests and unstructured data. You can bring order to complexity and guide a team through it.
• Consumer Research:Familiarity with segmentation survey data and third-party research tools (e.g. mTAB Polk JD Power) is a strong plus.
• Marketing Data:Familiarity with CRM website analytics and platforms like Adobe Analytics Salesforce etc.
• Ability to Learn:Willingness and ability to pick up new tools technologies and methods quickly.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in Marketing Business Analytics Mathematics Economics or related field
• 68 years of experience in data analytics consumer/market research management consulting or marketing analysis
• Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring a team
• Track record of presenting data-driven insights and recommendations to senior or executive audiences
• Ability to work on-site in Detroit MI or New York NY
• Automotive marketing background is highly preferred

We believe the best work happens when were together fostering creativity collaboration and connection. Thats why weve adopted a hybrid approach with teams in the office an average of four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

WPP (Hudson Rouge) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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