Head of Analytical Leads Job at Microsoft Corporation (Sydney)

Job Description

Microsoft Advertising is a global leader in digital advertising, helping advertisers grow through search, display, video, and retail media solutions. We are seeking a Head of Analytical Leads to lead a high‑performing team that turns data into measurable business impact. In this role, you will manage a team of senior analytical leaders across APAC, delivering insights and recommendations that improve client performance and unlock new investment opportunities on the Microsoft Advertising platform. You will combine industry knowledge, digital marketing expertise, and advanced analytics to craft compelling, data‑driven narratives that influence senior decision‑makers through clear storytelling and visualisation. The ideal candidate brings strong people leadership, analytical and consulting capabilities, and a proactive, challenger mindset, with the ability to partner effectively across teams and markets.

Job Responsibility

People Management: Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring
Application of Data: Ensures team members evaluate the sufficiency of data between internal and external sources, drives accountability of identification and resolution of data quality issues, and encourages and coordinates cross-team collaboration and data sharing to build data pipelines or integrations
Data Analysis: Builds best practices for team members to leverage and apply their expertise across client and business-related analytical needs
Data Privacy and Governance: Contributes knowledge across the team in data privacy and governance rules and regulations and guides others to uphold and apply updated data privacy and governance
Improvement, Efficiency, and Innovation: Guides the team to develop and implement methods that create systematic efficiencies in core work related to analytics and reporting
Orchestration and Collaboration: Establishes and leverages strategic working relationships within and across internal and client teams to ensure data sources, methodologies, models, and analytical tools and processes are high-quality
Presentation of Results: Provides guidance to team members on the development and delivery of compelling and easily understood client-facing presentations of analyses, reports, data visualizations, etc
Understanding Client's Business: Advances own and team's comprehensive understanding of clients' business knowledge, including industry trends, clients' value propositions, and the competitive landscape

Requirements

8+ years experience in statistics, mathematics, analytics, data science, data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, business and financial analysis, or related field
OR equivalent experience 8+ years experience using tools such as PowerBI/Tableau, DAX, R, SQL for data manipulation and visualization on large datasets
2+ years people management experience
Experience in the APAC Market including Australia, Japan, and China
Experience communicating complex analyses to a mix of both technical and non-technical partners and clients
Experience utilizing analytical tools to turn massive, dynamic datasets into actionable insights
Experience pairing data visualization with storytelling to deliver persuasive presentations that influence varying audience levels
Experience conducting, interpreting, and clearly communicating measurement analyses (e.g., incrementality, attribution, lift studies) to inform client decisions
Experience and proficiency using PowerBI/Tableau, DAX, SQL for data manipulation and visualization
Working knowledge and familiarity in a combination of the following data manipulation and visualization tools is a plus: Python, R, PowerPivot, Microsoft Advertising API
Working knowledge of statistics, predictive modeling and data clustering/classification techniques

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Experience in a partner or account management/client service/client-facing role
Experience in digital media, data analysis, and data management

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