Regional Data Science Director

DMCG Global is currently seeking a Regional Data Science Director to join a top performance marketing agency. The position will be based in Dubai.
 
The Regional Data Science Director is expected to have a strong working knowledge of the media business and will be responsible for transforming the media product into an analytical data-driven offering. The role requires a strategic focus, responsibility of design and delivery of the Reprise data products, whilst being able to bridge the gap between business and data.  
 
Key Responsibilities: 

• Support and champion the strategy on advanced data & analytics 
• Bring data to life across multiple disciplines - from strategy, planning, media, digital, content, etc.  
• Evolve audience data and insights practice by enriching data stack and launching of new products 
• Vision in mapping business questions to data and analytical products 
• Foster a culture of data-driven decision making 
• Oversee work, ensuring that it meets the highest possible standards 
• Become a thought leader on the value of data by finding new features or products by unlocking business possibilities  
• Analyze data for trends and patterns using machine learning algorithms and Interpret data with a clear objective in mind 
• Identifying and integrating new datasets that can be leveraged through our product capabilities and work closely with the team to strategize the development of data products 
• Identify relevant data sources and sets to mine for client business needs and collect large structured and unstructured datasets and variables 
• Devise and utilize algorithms and models to mine data stores, perform data and error analysis to improve models, and clean and validate data for uniformity and accuracy