VP, Commerce Analytics

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About the Role

We are looking for a senior analytics leader to drive growth across our strategic retail client portfolio and to accelerate the expansion of our enterprise analytics offerings. You will combine hands-on practitioner expertise with enterprise growth leadership, making it an opportunity to shape the future of retail analytics at scale.

You will partner with client partners, enterprise sales leads, and internal teams to deliver measurable impact across marketing, sales, merchandising, pricing, supply chain, customer experience, and data engineering. At the same time, you will lead the growth and positioning of our analytics capabilities, expanding adoption of advanced analytics and AI solutions across industries.

What You'll Do

Partner with Strategic Retail Clients

• Be a senior advisor, embedding analytics into business-critical functions such as marketing, sales, merchandising, pricing, supply chain, store operations, and customer experience.

• Be both a strategic leader and practitioner—able to engage at the C-suite level, but also comfortable getting hands-on with solutioning, code reviews, and technical discussions when needed.

• Build and lead hybrid teams (onshore + offshore/Global Delivery Service) that deliver scalable, high-quality, and innovative analytics solutions.

• Drive measurable business impact while being accountable for revenue growth and margin performance across client engagements.

Accelerate Analytics Growth

• Work with enterprise sales and client partners to identify, shape, and pursue new analytics opportunities across retail and adjacent markets.

• Define and evangelize our analytics vision—extending beyond marketing and media into commercial functions such as sales, pricing, merchandising, supply chain, and assortment optimization.

• Lead solutioning efforts, go-to-market strategies, and proposal development that position us as a differentiated partner in the analytics space.

• Drive thought leadership through market POVs, competitive intelligence, and external representation at industry events.

Lead and Inspire Teams

• Build, mentor, and scale hybrid (onshore + offshore) analytics and cross-functional teams across, fostering innovation, accountability, and excellence.

• Create best practices, governance models, and scalable delivery frameworks for analytics and data engineering programs.

• Stay ahead of market trends in data science, AI/ML, data engineering, and latest retail technologies (e.g., web scraping, competitive intelligence, cloud platforms).

You will report to SVP, Analytics.

What We're Looking For

• 15+ years of experience in analytics consulting or professional services, with a strong focus on retail and commercial analytics.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative or business discipline (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, Engineering, or MBA).

• Experience with building and scaling analytics programs across sales, pricing, merchandising, supply chain, and go-to-market functions.

• Demonstrated success leading hybrid teams (onshore client-facing + offshore/global delivery) and managing revenue and margin outcomes.

• Hands-on practitioner who can dive into technical detail, including solution design, code reviews, and analytics execution.

• Grounding in data engineering and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), given the significant role of data engineering in retail analytics.

• Familiarity with competitive intelligence techniques, web scraping technologies, and modern data pipelines.

• Exceptional communication skills, executive presence, and ability to influence at the C-suite level.

• Must be open to open to travel.

The annual base salary range for this position is $196,000-$316,250. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law. Additionally, this position is eligible for discretionary incentive compensation.

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 more information 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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