Senior Director, Advertising Analytics

About the role

Real Chemistry seeks a Senior Director of Advertising Analytics to serve as a senior analytics voice within our advertising practice. This leadership role combines deep analytics and marketing expertise, client relationship management, team development, and financial responsibility to drive integrated analytics programs across pharmaceutical and life sciences engagements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the client lead on advertising analytics projects, providing strategic guidance on approach and solutions.
• Establish credibility with partners and clients and engage in senior-level conversations that drive client business strategy.
• Successfully identify new and organic opportunities with clients and convert them to profit-generating business in a financially intelligent and proactive manner.
• Partner closely with integrated partners across Real Chemistry to help identify, scope and secure new analytics opportunities.
• Be able to proactively reach out and build relationships that enable resourcefulness and operational excellence.
• Lead teams by understanding individual strengths, providing constructive feedback, and creating environments that support growth and development.
• Connect the project team to the strategic WHY behind client work and ensure team members understand how their contributions impact client business outcomes.
• Work fluently in AI-enabled research and analytics environments — applying prompt-based workflows, rapid insight generation, and lightweight, low-code, or vibe-coding approaches for analysis, synthesis, and prototyping where appropriate — while exercising strong critical thinking and ethical judgment about AI's capabilities and limitations in healthcare contexts.

Requirements

• 8+ years in analytics leadership roles with substantial advertising and marketing experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare industries.
• Prior leadership experience at healthcare communications agencies or advertising agencies serving pharmaceutical clients, with understanding of creative workflow integration.
• Proven success selling analytics services and managing revenue targets.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and close opportunities for analytics solutions within pharma and healthcare marketing ecosystems.
• Demonstrated expertise in omnichannel marketing, social listening and audience analytics.
• Knowledge of paid media a plus.
• Demonstrated practical experience using AI-enabled tools for research, analysis, synthesis, and insight development, along with familiarity with prompt-driven workflows and iterative experimentation.
• Exposure to lightweight coding, scripting, low-code tools, or modern analytics platforms is a plus.
• Exercise strong judgment about when AI accelerates thinking and when human reasoning is essential, particularly in healthcare contexts.
• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical marketing compliance requirements, data governance standards, and healthcare regulatory environment.
• Knowledge of HIPAA, data privacy regulations, and ethical data use principles a plus.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills with demonstrated ability to influence C-suite stakeholders and senior marketing leadership.
• Experience recruiting, mentoring, and inspiring high-performing analytics teams.
• Proven ability to lead a team or pod — drawing out individual strengths, connecting people to growth opportunities, and bringing the big-picture thinking and appetite for innovation that helps your team grow into what's next.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant field such as statistics, data science, marketing, or a related discipline.
• Advanced certification in analytics, data science, or a related field.
• Experience with data visualization tools and platforms like Tableau, Power BI, or similar.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, R, or other programming languages relevant to data analysis.
• Experience with statistical modeling and machine learning techniques.
• Understanding of data governance and compliance practices in the healthcare industry.

Skills

• Data analysis and interpretation skills.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience with agile methodologies and project management tools.

Benefits

Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks, tailored to your region. Globally, this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vision plans, and support in saving for the future. Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning.

Pay

Pay Range: $130,000 - $170,000

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on job-related, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to work experience, skills, certifications, and geographical location. The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.