Responsibilities

• Lead partnership with Accenture: joint delivery plan, capability programs, tools, and measurable impact reporting.
• Lead the performance and return on investment mini squad strategy, roadmap, and operating model across AEMEA.
• Establish regional standards for measurement, learning agendas, experimentation, and benefits realization; ensure adoption and quality.
• Own regional agency performance governance: evaluation framework, scorecards, improvement plans, and escalation paths.
• Drive investment governance: decision forums, prioritization principles, and business case quality; ensure transparency and accountability.
• Senior stakeholder engagement: communicate progress, risks, and impact; influence funding and decisions with clear rationale.

Requirements

• University level education
• Advanced training in measurement, media effectiveness, experimentation, or finance for marketers preferred
• Minimum 10 years of experience in digital transformation, digital marketing, electronic commerce, analytics, or consulting
• 5+ years leading regional programmes, capability building, or performance governance
• Strong experience influencing senior stakeholders and aligning markets to shared standards
• Demonstrates strong business, financial, and analytical thinking, applying data, measurement, and optimisation expertise to support effective digital investment decisions and drive business outcomes.
• Strong leadership capability with the ability to raise standards, coach and develop others, foster accountability, and build trust-based, high-performing teams and partnerships.
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, and executive communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex topics clearly and persuasively across markets, functions, agencies, external partners, and regional/global headquarters, including close collaboration with teams in Japan.
• Proven experience managing agency and partner relationships with a strong focus on governance, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity, with strong prioritisation, programme management, and structured execution capabilities in dynamic regional environments.

Preferred

• Advanced training in measurement, media effectiveness, experimentation, or finance for marketers preferred

Benefits

• Kao is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.
• What you can expect from us:
• An entrepreneurial environment where passionate and innovative teams come together.
• Respect, teamwork and collaboration are at the heart of how we work.
• A workplace culture that prioritizes employee wellbeing
• A broad range of benefits, including flexible working, competitive salaries, health and wellbeing offers, retirement, insurance options, and more…
• Learning and development opportunities
• Your voice matters here — we value entrepreneurial thinking and innovation from our teams.