Advisor, Data Partnerships

About the role

The Advisor, Data Partnerships serves as the primary business owner for an assigned portfolio of strategic third-party data partners. This role is responsible for managing partner relationships, driving business growth, supporting commercial activities, and improving the value delivered through Epsilon’s data partnership ecosystem. The Advisor acts as the central point of coordination between external partners and internal collaborators, ensuring strong partner performance, operational excellence, and successful execution of partnership initiatives.

This role drives the performance, adoption, and value realization of Epsilon’s strategic data partnerships. By providing dedicated ownership of partner relationships, the Advisor improves partner accountability, operational execution, renewal readiness, and commercial growth while enabling leadership to focus on broader portfolio strategy and investment decisions.

When you join Epsilon, we’ll create something EPIC together. We’re a global leader in data and identity, with deep expertise in digital media, clean rooms, customer data platforms, loyalty and marketing services. Positioned at the center of Publicis Groupe, Epsilon helps brands deliver personalized experiences at scale and build lasting customer relationships by unlocking the full potential of data and identity. Epsilon operates in 30+ countries across EMEA, the Americas and APAC, with more than 8,000 employees.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day partner management for an assigned portfolio of strategic data partners, including relationship management, onboarding, issue resolution, business reviews, renewal support, partner growth planning, and cross-functional coordination with Product, Engineering, Privacy, Legal, Sales, and Client teams.
• Serve as the internal subject matter expert for assigned partners, with deep knowledge of each partner’s data assets, commercial terms, use cases, limitations, operational processes, and strategic value to Epsilon.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience in data partnerships, ad tech, martech, digital media, data strategy, product partnerships, consulting, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of ad tech, data integration, activation, audience data, identity, and the broader data ecosystem.
• Ability to become the internal SME for assigned partners, including understanding partner capabilities, data assets, use cases, platform integrations, operational requirements, and commercial considerations.
• Experience managing external partner, vendor, data provider, technology, or research relationships.
• Ability to build trusted relationships across data, technology, product, commercial, client, and cross-functional partners.
• Experience coordinating partner onboarding, launches, issue resolution, business reviews, service-level follow-up, and operational readiness.
• Strong attention to detail across data delivery quality, partner documentation, commercial inputs, and operational follow-through.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex data partnership topics for internal stakeholders and clients.
• Sound judgment and accountability to operate through ambiguity, make recommendations, and balance the interests of Epsilon, clients, agency partners, and external data providers.

Skills

• Experience with partner renewals, pricing, agreement terms, commercial negotiations, or growth planning.
• Hands-on experience with DSPs, media platforms, social ad managers, data onboarding platforms, SSPs, or adjacent activation technologies.
• Experience with data governance