Data Consulting Director (Malaysia)

About Us

Artefact is the next generation end-to-end data service company, with a focus on consulting and marketing, that helps organisations transform data into value and business impact.

Our broad range of data-driven solutions in data consulting and digital marketing are designed to meet our clients’ specific needs, always conceived with a business-centric approach and delivered with tangible results.

We have 1000+ employees across 16 offices who are focused on accelerating digital transformation. Thanks to a unique mix of company assets: State of the art data technologies, lean AI agile methodologies for fast delivery, and cohesive teams of the finest business consultants, data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and digital experts, all dedicated to bringing extra value to every client.

About The Role

Key Areas of Responsibility 

Reporting directly to Chapter Leader, your role will be:

• Manage projects, or commercial proposal preparation process, involving the management of multidisciplinary teams, including Consultants, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Creatives, Media experts and etc ;
• Handle clients directly on project assignments (run workshops, client meetings, formal presentations and etc) ;
• Bring the best of our expertise from the other chapters to your clients on Data Science, Activation (e.g., media buying, CRM, ...) and Creativity ;
• Impact-driven with real sales abilities, you will have to embark our clients into a transformation of their marketing, CRM, Supply Chain departments and make sure Artefact is their preferred partner in this endeavor.

Among your responsibilities as Consulting Director, you will:

• Develop client portfolio (hunting) ;
• Constantly stay on top of the Data, AI, Marketing content ;
• Support a commercial strategy to develop the country client portfolio through personal contacts, events, cold calls, and etc ;
• Monitor the commercial pipeline ;
• Build proposals supporting the client needs ;
• Deliver the highest standards of quality on your projects ;
• Pilot multidisciplinary teams (consultants, data scientists, strategic planners, media traders) ;
• Ensure the highest level of quality of output to your clients ;
• Accountable for the success of the projects from a client and team perspective ;
• Develop our Global Knowledge platform ;
• Build stronghold of knowledge through your clients’ engagements (frameworks, methodologies, technologies, ...) ;
• Ensure the spread of the Consulting Department knowledge across the company at local and Global level (in coordination with the Consulting Practice)

Competences & Skills

• Demonstrated success in your first 6+ years of career at a tier 1 consulting firm and have 4+ years of experience managing projects and/or clients ;
• Solid experience in data related topics, including but not limited to data transformation program, cloud infrastructure, AI & machine learning ;
• Strong interest and appetite in Data, Marketing & Technology ;
• Highly adaptable, able to cope with different topics and situations ;

Our Belief

We believe data is changing the world, and it’s just the beginning. We want this to be done in the right way, with transparency and ethics. This is the only way to create sustainable impact for business and society.

Our Mission

We are on a mission to build the next generation of data leaders who: 

• Fully capture the power of data & digital to deliver business value ;
• Bring understanding, trust & transparency of data into our society.

Our Values

• Collaboration : People of different background and expertise working closely together;
• Trust & Transparency: Dealing with data topics with integrity and ethics; Realistic and honest with our capabilities and limitations;
• Innovation: Always working on the most trendy and new topics on data and digital; Always on top of the new ways of using data;
• Action: We would rather do than to tell what to do; Has a “building the plane while flying” agile mentality.

Our Unique Attributes

• We bring great value to business and create a better society with the understanding, transparency and ethical use of data ;
• We build the next generation of data leaders ;
• We disrupt the market :
• Data Native - Born with data and defining data ;
• ART + SCIENCE - Mixture of talents in ART (Creative, Planning, Media, Consumer Engagement) and SCIENCE (Data Consulting, Data Science, Data Engineer) ;
• One P&L - Integrated & collaborative, with all chapters working toward the same goal ;
• End to End - Capabilities from Strategize to Build to Run.