Marketing Science - Senior Consultant - MMM - PHD UK

About the Role:

Are you an experienced marketing scientist ready to step into a senior leadership role? At PHD, we are looking for an Associate Director to join our Marketing Science team—leading high-impact analytics projects, shaping how our clients think about marketing effectiveness, and helping to develop the next generation of marketing scientists.

You will lead projects end-to-end for a portfolio of high-profile brands, including Sainsbury’s Argos Group, CHANEL, British Heart Foundation and Warner Brothers working closely with planning and strategy teams to translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations. This is a role with real breadth: part analytical leader, part people developer, part innovator.

You will sit within our Strategy and Intelligence Centre of Excellence, connected to a Marketing Science community of over 70 specialists across Omnicom Media Group—sharing best practice and driving innovation at scale. Beyond the day-to-day, you will have the chance to shape agency life through social clubs, inclusion initiatives, and our Future of Work Group.

About You

We are looking for someone with the skills and experience to lead in this role. You do not need to match every point below—if you have most of these and are excited by the opportunity, we want to hear from you.

• Experience leading media analytics, econometrics, or incrementality testing projects from design through to delivery
• Proficiency in tools such as R, Python, SQL, or Excel
• Ability to translate client questions into data-led measurement frameworks and present findings clearly to client and planning teams
• Experience managing, developing, and supporting junior team members
• A collaborative approach to working across planning, strategy, and client teams
• Curiosity, a problem-solving mindset, and a commitment to continuous learning
• Your own perspective and ideas—we value diverse thinking and different ways of seeing the world

About the Agency:

PHD UK is a growth-focused media agency driven by innovation and creativity. It is the reigning Campaign AND Media Week Awards Media Agency of the Year and in March 2026 was named as the most awarded media agency in the World in the annual Warc Media 100 rankings. 

Founded in London in 1990, we were the first media agency to offer strategic and creative planning at a time when the industry was about buying cheaply and quickly.

Our founders saw a bright future where smart thinking and clever planning could help brands grow faster than their competitors.

Over the subsequent 3 decades, we have continued to build on this defining ethic — with our evolution shaped by a continual investment in thought leadership and a culture of Ingenuity.  

Today, with over 100 offices in 74 countries, we continue to create remarkable campaigns that lead to remarkable growth – using the extending canvas of data and technology.

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