WPP
Senior Director, NA Data Partnerships Lead
New York, New York, United States · Director
Sponsorship not specified$125k-$295kDetected 40 days ago
Stakeholder ManagementNegotiationPerformance ManagementLeadershipCollaboration
About the role
- We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.
- Why we're hiring: WPP's Data & Technology Solutions is the WPP's unified global data products and technology team.
- We're endlessly curious and our team of thinkers, builders, creators and problem solvers are over 2,000 strong, across 20 markets around the world.
Responsibilities
- Local Data Partnership Strategy and Market Leadership: Define and execute the data partnership strategy for North America under a "Build, Buy, Partner" framework.
- By aligning global priorities with local needs, you will position WPP as a leading data partner in the market.
- By proactively shaping the ecosystem, you will ensure WPP Open maintains a competitive advantage locally.
- Partnership Identification and Commercial Execution: Lead the identification, negotiation and implementation of strategic data and technology partnerships. By structuring effective agreements, you will enable scalable solutions and commercial impact.
- Contract Standardization and Governance: Drive contract standardization and ensure legal and operational alignment across all data partnerships. By improving consistency and efficiency, you will reduce complexity and risk.
- Product Integration and Data Adoption: Oversee integration of partner solutions into the WPP Open ecosystem and drive adoption of data products across clients and teams. By ensuring seamless delivery, you will unlock value and accelerate usage.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration and Stakeholder Alignment: Build strong relationships across Legal, Product, Sales, Data Strategy, Solutions Engineering, Business Operations and Open Intelligence teams.
- Client Alignment and Market Feedback: Leverage feedback loops with data solutions and client teams to ensure partnerships align with client needs and market demand. By staying closely connected to the market, you will drive relevant and impactful solutions.
- Performance Management and Operational Excellence: Own key performance indicators including cost efficiency, adoption, revenue impact and partnership pipeline quality. By driving accountability, you will ensure measurable outcomes and continuous improvement.
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands.
Requirements
- Significant experience in data partnerships, licensing, or data-driven platform ecosystems
- Proven track record of identifying, negotiating and scaling strategic partnerships
- Experience working across cross-functional teams in matrixed organizations
- Ability to align global strategy with local market execution
Skills
- WPP Open is our AI platform for marketing, it connects marketing professionals, data, tools and AI in a single place.
Compensation
- Passionate, inspired people - We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work
- Scale and opportunity - We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
- Challenging and stimulating work - Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers.
- Are you up for the challenge?
- The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below.
- Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications.
Benefits
- We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.
- We offer a competitive benefits package, go to https://mybenefits.wpp.com/public/welcome for more details.
Company info
- to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
- We are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing.
- We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
- We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company - powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
Equal opportunity
- WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics.
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