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Freelance Intelligence Director

Cape Town, WC, South Africa💼 Contract🗓 2026-09-30

Core

Lead a team to deliver high-quality Data, Insights, and Analytics to clients, augmenting strategic, media, and creative approaches to understand performance, trends, and impact.

Role type

Senior IC Intelligence Director (Team Lead)

Builds

Data products, insights reports, audits, and strategic recommendations for clients and the Ogilvy/WPP network.

Domain

Advertising, Media Intelligence, Digital Strategy

Required skills

Team management, data analytics, insights strategy, social listening, digital strategy, data visualization, consumer research, new business development, stakeholder management, analytical tool proficiency

Preferred skills

Experience with Synthesio, Brandwatch, Meltwater, GWI, Rival IQ, SEMRush, Statista, Social Lab Proprietary Tools

Technologies

Synthesio, Brandwatch, Meltwater, GWI, Rival IQ, SEMRush, Statista, Social Lab Proprietary Tools

Responsibilities

Lead the Intelligence business unit team to evolve products and deliver services; Establish strategic relationships with clients and in-market partners; Drive new business development and scale the team; Manage incoming demand and prioritize requests; Develop analytical capability and share knowledge across the team; Analyze social and digital media data using tools; Support planners in developing data-validated strategies; Create commercially viable data products; Design insightful reports with strategic recommendations; Present intelligence work to clients; Own the intelligence technology stack.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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