Lead Data Analyst

About the opportunity

We are looking for an empathetic and operationally rigorous Analytics Manager to lead a team of data analysts within our AdTech division. Your mission is to transition this team from a reactive, request based and "data-pulling" function into a proactive, consultative partner to the business. You will partner closely with our Staff Analysts and Data Scientists to upskill the team's technical capabilities, while you focus on career development, stakeholder management, and ensuring the team delivers high-impact, narrative-driven insights that maximize our ad inventory yield.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Team Leadership & Coaching: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of data analysts. Conduct regular 1:1s, define clear career progression paths, and coach them on business acumen and data storytelling.

• Operational Excellence: Own the team’s delivery pipeline. Implement sprint planning or intake processes to protect the team from ad-hoc chaos, ensuring they focus on high-ROI projects rather than just answering tickets.

• Stakeholder Management: Act as a point of contact for Director-level stakeholders in Commercial, Product and Engineering. Negotiate roadmaps, manage expectations based on the expected impact of the analyses.

• Strategic Alignment: Translate the broader Ads division strategy into actionable quarterly goals for your analysts. Ensure every dashboard or analysis built ties directly to maximizing ad revenue or improving vendor ROI.

• Technical Oversight & QA: While you won't be the primary coder, you will review your team’s work. You will ensure SQL queries are optimized, dashboards are intuitive, and presentations answer the "So what?" before they reach senior leadership.

• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate seamlessly with the Staff Data Analyst to operationalize advanced machine learning models (like churn prediction or lead scoring) into the team's daily workflows.

What you need to be successful

• 8+ years of experience in Data Analytics, BI, or Data Science, preferably within Monetization, AdTech, or a Marketplace environment.

• 2+ years of experience mentoring, leading, or managing analysts (this can include acting as a Technical Lead or agile Scrum Master for a data team).

• Strong technical foundation: Expert in SQL and BI visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker). A solid understanding of Python and Machine Learning concepts to effectively manage advanced projects. Comfortable with Google Cloud Platform or similar.

• Exceptional prioritization skills, providing “assertive-support” to the other teams: You know how to identify the main opportunities, prioritise the efforts and based on these know how to say "no" to stakeholders respectfully and can teach your team how to do the same.

• Strong commercial fluency: You understand how digital ad auctions operate (CPM/CPC), and how to measure the profitability of an initiative in a complex multi-national matrix organization.