Transformation Technology Leader, Managing Director

Agency Credera Job Function Consulting Job Subfunction Business and Change Consulting Job Description Credera is seeking outstanding Transformation Technology Leaders to join client engagements across its portfolio. This is a senior technical leadership role focused on shaping and scaling marketing technology ecosystems. As befits its seniority, this role will have a particular emphasis on global, transformational, customer-facing propositions powered by AI and data, leveraging leading vendor solutions (AWS, Salesforce, Adobe). Role Overview The Technology Transformation Leader acts as the senior technical authority on large marketing transformation programmes. This leader anchors the work in technical reality by assessing the current technology landscape, defining the target architecture, and determining where specialised expertise is required. This senior role demands a high level of technical expertise, leadership, and collaboration. You will partner with both platform leads and the heads of agency strategy and operations. You will possess a comprehensive understanding of end-to-end marketing processes and consistently act as a reliable advisor and technical authority. Your recommendations regarding Marketing Technology and Advertising Technology (focused on Data, Technology, and AI) are recognised as industry-leading. The role guides the evolution of a flexible, scalable marketing technology ecosystem; ensures data foundations are fit for activation, measurement, and AI‑enabled use cases; evaluates new technology and AI solutions against architectural and operating‑model requirements; and provides architectural guardrails for sprint‑based delivery. Working closely with the Transformation Leader, Change & Adoption Advisor, and program leadership, this role ensures that technical decisions enable rather than constrain new ways of working and adoption across the organisation. Core Responsibilities - Technical Leadership: Act as a trusted advisor and technical authority, providing vision and direction on Marketing Technology and Advertising Technology initiatives that support the client’s goals. - Pre-Sales and Solutioning: Lead and support pre-sales and solutioning efforts, contributing technical vision and architecture perspective to the development of compelling, innovative, and robust technology solutions for clients. - Thought Leadership: Serve as a visible thought leader for Credera in the market, speaking at conferences, publishing, and representing the firm in the technology and business communities, with a focus on marketing technology transformation, data, and AI. - Platform Strategy Integration: Collaborate with Credera’s Omnicom channel team and agency leadership to develop and implement a connected platform strategy that aligns campaigns, teams, and Omnicom technologies, ensuring all initiatives work in concert to drive the client’s business objectives. - Collaboration and Consultation: Build close partnerships with the client’s platform leads, the head of agency strategy and operations, and C-suite stakeholders (CMOs, CIOs/CTOs), offering expert consultation and guidance to harmonise the technological aspects of marketing and advertising initiatives. - Orchestration of Workstreams: Lead the orchestration of technical work across cross-functional teams, promoting collaboration and ensuring that disparate initiatives integrate seamlessly into a unified technical approach. - Technical Solutioning: Utilise a deep understanding of Marketing Technology and Advertising Technology to identify, design, and implement technical solutions that enhance efficiency through automation, data flow, and customer experience within the client’s ecosystem. - Data and Technology Expertise: Leverage expertise in data architecture, marketing analytics, and customer data platforms (CDPs) to ensure client’s technology stack is optimized for innovation and effectiveness. - AI Experience: Assess and recommend areas within the client’s business to apply AI and agentic solutions, driving automation, personalisation, and enhanced customer experiences, with particular attention to the dependencies between AI capabilities, data quality, governance, and platform interoperability. Experience Qualifications & Skills - 15 years minimum experience serving as a senior technology leader on enterprise scale marketing, data, or digital transformation programs, with accountability from strategy through execution. - Demonstrated success leading cross-functional technical teams spanning marketing technology, data, analytics, AI, and IT including influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority. - Proven ability to own and evolve complex technology ecosystems, making strategic technical decisions that balance long-term scalability with near-term delivery requirements. - Experience partnering directly with sr. client stakeholders (example: CMOs, CIOs/CTOs, and senior marketing and data leaders), providing clear guidance and confidence through complex solutions and recommendations. - Track record of working in ambiguous, evolving transformation environments, where tools, platforms, and priorities shift as the organization matures. - Sector experience in automotive, retail, and/or financial services is highly desirable. Expertise - Deep understanding of marketing technology, data, and AI systems, including how platforms, data infrastructure, orchestration layers, analytics, and AI capabilities work together as an integrated ecosystem. - Strong, practical knowledge of marketing technology platforms and tooling categories (e.g., content, orchestration, analytics, identity, data platforms, AI enablement) including hands-on familiarity with leading platforms such as Salesforce, Adobe, and cloud infrastructure (AWS) and the architectural patterns that allow them to scale. Expertise and/or certifications in AWS, Adobe, Salesforce, Tealium, Treasure Data, or related technologies are highly valued. - Demonstrated ability to assess, rationalise, and modernise tool landscapes, identifying redundancies, integration challenges, and structural weaknesses across systems. - Deep familiarity with data foundations for marketing, including customer signals, identity, consent, activation data, measurement inputs, and how these enable both performance marketing and AI‑driven use cases. - Practical understanding of AI‑enabled and agentic capabilities, including their dependencies on data quality, governance, and platform interoperability. Leadership & Advisory Skills - Operates as a trusted senior advisor, bridging business ambition, marketing realities, and technical feasibility. - Exercises strong judgment in balancing architectural rigor with pragmatism to support iterative, sprint‑based delivery. - Comfortable guiding teams and leaders through complex trade‑offs without over‑engineering or over‑simplifying. Benefits Along with a great company culture, Credera provides an exceptional compensation package including a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit plan. Our consistent growth over the years and entrepreneurial environment, provides an excellent platform to embark upon an exciting career path, where your contribution really counts, and we will recognise it. With personalised development opportunities, experienced colleagues around the globe and exciting client assignments, progression can be extremely rapid for high performers. We are a social bunch of people and connect as a team on a regular basis. Learn More Credera is a global consulting firm that combines transformational consulting capabilities, deep industry knowledge, and AI and technology expertise to deliver valuable customer experiences and accelerated growth across a broad range of industries worldwide. Our one-of-a-kind global boutique approach means we provide our clients with tailored solutions unique to their organisation that can scale due to our extensive footprint. As a values-led organisation, our mission is to make an extraordinary impact on our clients, our people, and our community. We believe it is this approach that has allowed us to work with and transform the most influential brands and organisations in the world, from strategy through to execution. We are part of the OPM Group of Companies, a division of Omnicom Group Inc. Credera will never ask for money up front and will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. 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