Data & Insights Consultant

How this role differs

You move from holding depth across several accounts to owning the method for the discipline across a portfolio, including its budgets and profitability.

The Consultant owns the method and the hardest measurement problems, without owning headcount. The Data & Insights Manager owns the team, the tooling and the commercial health of reporting delivery.

Roles and responsibilities

• Own research and measurement methods across the portfolio, defining when different approaches are appropriate and what credible evidence looks like.
• Design approaches for unfamiliar or complex questions, assessing feasibility, assumptions and limitations before recommending how to proceed.
• Resolve escalated methodological problems, drawing on technical or subject specialists where additional expertise is needed.
• Review and challenge research and measurement designs before significant resources are committed.
• Advise senior client stakeholders on decisions informed by data, distinguishing what the evidence supports from what remains uncertain.
• Develop reusable methods, validation checks and documentation that teams can apply accurately without depending on your continued involvement.
• Advise Data & Insights Managers on the methodological implications of tooling choices, including capability gaps and trade-offs.
• Own budgets and make sure projects are profitable.
• Work independently on the most complex client projects, doing the expert work yourself and adding value to the account teams you support.
• Build growth cases, upsells and scopes that win on the strength of the thinking.
• Develop others through specialist coaching and strategic feedback, without line management responsibility.

Immediate growth path