Director Analytics, Financial Services

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Director Analytics, Financial Services 

At Merkle, we drive business growth through data, analytics, and customer insight. We are seeking a Director of Analytics to lead the customer analytics workstream for a key financial services client. The role focuses on leveraging call center, customer interaction, and data sources 2.0 data to generate insights, create customer segmentation, build predictive models, improve performance, and support business decisioning. The Director will translate analytics into clear, actionable recommendations that drive customer engagement and marketing effectiveness. 

Job Description 

• Own the day-to-day analytics relationship with the client, ensuring alignment to business priorities 

• Manage junior team members working on same client project 

• Define and evolve the customer analytics roadmap aligned to business priorities 

• Lead the customer analytics workstream, including personalization, predictive modeling, customer lifetime value (CLV), and test-and-learn initiatives  

• Lead and mentor on-account analysts, ensuring quality and consistency of delivery 

• Ensure tagging and data capture support measurement and reporting needs through partnership with technical teams 

• Report to Senior Director, Analytics, Financial Services 

• Oversee development and use of data assets and models to support analytics and insights 

• Apply customer, Data Source 2.0, and call center data (e.g., dispositions, outcomes, operational KPIs, QA/CSAT signals, omni-channel interactions) to drive segmentation, targeting, and performance optimization 

• Enable ETL/ELT, data modeling, and dimensional design for future expansion. 

• Own data quality and governance by leading regular audits, enforcing standards, and ensuring trusted, well‑defined, and secure data is consistently ready for analytics and decision‑making (including sensitive customer data) 

• Partner across analytics, engineering, operations, and marketing to execute against client needs 

• Support analytics and reporting across BI and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker) 

• Support modernization of legacy data and analytics processes  

• Maintain documentation standards to support consistent and scalable analytics delivery 

Requirements:

• Proven experience in analytics or data architecture and data science within an analytics-driven environment (e.g., modeling, mappings, lineage, documentation) 

• Strong SQL, Python, R Script, and performance-oriented data design; ETL/ELT experience (SSIS or similar). 

• Strong leadership in understanding of data modeling concepts and analytical data structures (facts/dimensions). 

• Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder management skills 

• Experience leading analytics workstreams, teams, and delivering against business objectives 

• Experience working in GCP environments (e.g. BigQuery) 

• Experience integrating/modeling Salesforce data for analytics (service/case/activity and customer interaction patterns) (preferred)

• Strong knowledge of emerging capabilities: predictive analytics, unstructured data, text/speech analytics, AI readiness (preferred)

• Proven ownership of Data Science project (preferred)

• Exceptional executive communication / insights narratives / storytelling (preferred)

• Experience in complex, multi-workstream environments (agency or consulting helpful) (preferred)

• Ability to partner with/orchestrate DS, engineering, and analytics  (preferred)

The annual salary range for this position is $136,000 - $191,174. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.  

Benefits available with this position include:  

• 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, and 

• Paid parental leave. 

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies.  For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com. 

To begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps. 

At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we’re connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office.

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