Senior Client Director – Insights

Company: Vertical Advantage
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Location: London
Job Description:

Our client is a fast-scaling brand growth intelligence company, redefining how the world’s most ambitious brands measure and grow the value of influence. As the recognised authority on brand lift within influencer marketing – home to the largest global brand lift dataset in the industry – they are building the first governing system of influence, making it measurable, predictable, governable, and investable. Operating at the frontier of a $4T marketing industry that is shifting from the personalisation era to the community era, where influence is the currency, they are venture-backed by leading investors (including several unicorn founders) and trusted by globally recognised brands, agencies, and creators. Award-winning for both their technology and their data-driven campaigns, our client places insight, commercial impact, and client partnership at the heart of every decision.

Role Summary

The Senior Client Director – Insights is a pivotal leadership role within the commercial organisation, reporting to the VP of Client Strategy. As the commercial lead for a multidisciplinary client pod, you will own a portfolio of our client’s largest and most strategic partnerships while being accountable for pod revenue growth, delivery quality, and team performance. This role blends strategic thinking, operational discipline, and hands-on leadership to build a high-performing, collaborative team across sales, strategy, and delivery ensuring clients receive strategically valuable, insight-led recommendations that deliver measurable commercial value. A strong understanding of insights and measurement is fundamental to success.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the commercial performance, operations, and strategic direction of a multidisciplinary client pod spanning sales, strategy, and delivery
  • Lead, grow, and retain a portfolio of our client’s largest and most strategic client partnerships, driving committed revenue growth and account expansion
  • Build a high-performing pod culture centred on accountability, collaboration, commercial impact, and client excellence
  • Lead hiring, onboarding, coaching, and development across the client strategy and insight team, acting as the senior escalation point for client, commercial, and operational challenges
  • Partner with Business Development to identify and unlock new opportunities across teams, markets, and business functions
  • Ensure consistently high-quality, commercially impactful insight work, empowering teams to translate data into compelling, actionable client stories
  • Develop deep expertise in our client’s products and methodologies, and how insight outputs create measurable value for customers
  • Maintain visibility of pod performance through accurate forecasting and reporting
  • Collaborate with fellow Pod Leads and senior stakeholders to drive consistency, best practice, and the evolution of ways of working across the commercial organisation

Qualifications & Experience

  • Proven experience within insights, measurement, research, or data-led roles, with a strong ability to translate data into strategic recommendations
  • Demonstrated success leading high-performing, client-facing teams in fast-paced environments
  • Strong commercial acumen with a track record of growing long-term client partnerships and committed revenue
  • Experience in a high-growth or scale-up environment, thriving in ambiguous, fast-moving conditions where process is still being built
  • Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on client and team support
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to influence at senior levels
  • Insight-led, commercially astute, and growth-oriented, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Familiarity with agile or pod-based team structures is advantageous

Why Join

Alongside a competitive package, you’ll be immersed in a growth-oriented, transparent, and inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued. Our client invests in its people, promoting from within and providing ongoing development to help you thrive as they scale.

Posted: September 4th, 2026