Director, Customer Analytics

Kantar$135K — $155K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in analytics, customer intelligence, marketing analytics, or related fields
  • Strong grasp of customer analytics methodologies including segmentation and churn analysis
  • Experience with A/B testing and incrementality measurement strategies
  • Proficiency in Python, SQL, and modern analytics platforms like AWS or Google BigQuery
  • Skilled in data visualization tools like Tableau or Power BI
  • Proven track record in client-facing roles and managing senior stakeholder relationships
  • Excellent communication skills for both technical and business discussions

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a strategic partner to clients in analytics and business strategy
  • Translate datasets into actionable insights and growth strategies
  • Present findings and strategic viewpoints to senior stakeholders
  • Lead initiatives in customer analytics including journey and campaign analytics
  • Design frameworks for experimentation and testing methodologies
  • Apply statistical methods to assess marketing effectiveness and engagement initiatives
  • Facilitate cross-channel performance measurement and data integration

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical plans for a range of health services
  • Health Savings Account/FSA options available
  • Dental and vision coverage
  • Wellness programs for employee health and wellbeing
  • 401k plan with matching contributions
  • Tuition reimbursement and commuter benefits
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO) options
Full Job Description

Director, Customer Analytics

Location: (Hybrid) Atlanta, GA

Key Responsibilities:

Client and delivery leadership, analytics consulting

  • Serve as a strategic thought partner to client stakeholders across analytics, CRM, marketing, media, customer experience, and business strategy teams
  • Translate complex customer, transactional, and marketing datasets into actionable business insights and growth recommendations
  • Present insights, recommendations, and strategic POVs to senior client stakeholders
  • Lead advanced customer analytics initiatives including segmentation, customer journey analytics, churn analysis, customer lifetime value, campaign analytics, and personalization measurement
  • Design and guide experimentation frameworks including A/B testing, holdout strategies, test-control methodologies, and incrementality measurement approaches
  • Apply statistical and causal measurement methodologies to evaluate marketing effectiveness, personalization performance, and customer engagement initiatives
  • Support cross-channel performance measurement and attribution initiatives
  • Help clients leverage first-party, third-party, and digital data to improve customer engagement, loyalty, retention, and business performance

Delivery Leadership & Team Management

  • Lead analytics delivery across distributed onshore and offshore teams
  • Partner closely with Kantar’s Bangalore COE teams to drive high-quality and scalable analytics delivery
  • Provide thought leadership, mentorship, and guidance to analysts, consultants, and analytics teams
  • Ensure delivery excellence across multiple analytics workstreams while fostering collaboration and innovation
  • Support the development of scalable reporting, measurement, and decision-support frameworks

Business Development & growth

  • Identify opportunities to expand analytics solutions within existing client relationships
  • Support proposal development, capability presentations, solution narratives, and client pitches
  • Partner with Kantar client leaders and business development teams to drive growth across existing and new clients
  • Contribute to the development of scalable analytics offerings and reusable frameworks that can be deployed across industries and accounts

Requirements :

  • 6+ years of experience in analytics, customer intelligence, marketing analytics, consulting, data science, or related fields
  • Strong understanding of customer analytics and measurement methodologies including segmentation, experimentation, churn analysis, customer lifetime value, campaign analytics, and personalization measurement
  • Experience designing and evaluating A/B tests, holdout frameworks, test-control methodologies, and incrementality measurement approaches
  • Experience supporting experimentation, personalization, or marketing effectiveness initiatives at scale
  • Strong analytical and statistical problem-solving skills with experience applying causal measurement and experimentation techniques
  • Experience translating complex datasets into actionable business insights and recommendations
  • Proficiency in Python, SQL, and modern analytics environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google BigQuery
  • Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI
  • Experience leading client-facing analytics engagements and managing senior stakeholder relationships
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders
  • Experience working across cross-functional and global delivery teams


Preferred requirements:

  • Experience in retail, automotive, CRM, loyalty, or customer experience analytics
  • Familiarity with attribution methodologies, causal inference, or synthetic control approaches
  • Experience working within consulting, analytics services, or agency environments
  • Experience supporting personalization, recommendation, or customer decisioning initiatives

Kantar Benefits

We provide a comprehensive, highly competitive benefits package, including

  • Medical plans with comprehensive, affordable coverage for a range of health services
  • Health Savings Account/FSA
  • Dental, Vision and benefits to cover unique healthcare needs
  • Wellness Program
  • 401k with match
  • Tuition Reimbursement, Commuter benefits
  • Unlimited PTO

Location

Atlanta, PerimeterUnited States of America

About Kantar

Kantar is a data, insights and consulting company. It is the world's largest market research company, with offices in 100 countries. Kantar's services include brand research, advertising effectiveness, media research, and public opinion polls. The company was founded in 1992 as the Market Research, Consultancy and Investment Group and was renamed Kantar in 2008. Kantar is part of WPP, a British multinational advertising and public relations company. In 2019, Kantar was sold to Bain Capital for $4 billion.
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