Director, Data Solutions, Europe

About Walr

Walr is a data creation company that supports insight professionals globally. It specializes in reaching diverse audience segments, leveraging proprietary technology, and offering bespoke services. With a comprehensive suite of tools, backed by a team of seasoned industry professionals, Walrs services include efficient data collection methods, intuitive data visualization and reporting techniques, and supportive and transparent advice. Walr exists to unify the complex and fragmented research process by introducing more efficient, rapid, and straightforward methods.

As a rapidly growing company and acclaimed recipient of the Best Workplace in Tech and Best Workplace in Wellbeing titles, we’re not just offering a job we’re inviting you to shape our journey. Empowerment and growth define us. Join us in reshaping the future of business.

About The Role

Director, Data Solutions will play a key role in our data delivery function in Europe, ensuring the accurate, timely, and high-quality production of research data outputs. This role combines technical expertise with strategic responsibility, client‑facing engagement, and ownership of the future of our proprietary technology platform. As a lead user of our proprietary data platform, you will be the primary driver of its usage for client delivery in Europe, ensuring it is applied to its fullest potential. You will also act as a main stakeholder with our product and engineering teams, shaping platform development to align with client needs and operational priorities.

This role is both hands‑on in terms of daily delivery, whilst inputting into global strategy, as you will guide colleagues on data solution practices, liaise directly with clients, and champion the effective use and evolution of our platform.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Delivery

• Lead the European data solutions function, shaping the production of raw datasets, tabulations, and charts, with a particular focus on raw data and tabulations.
• Ensure that all outputs are accurate, timely, and aligned with client expectations.
• Develop and implement best practices for data processing, tabulation, and delivery.

Platform Leadership

• Serve as an expert user of our proprietary data platform, ensuring optimal use in project delivery.
• Act as a stakeholder for the platform with Product and Engineering, feeding client and operational requirements to shape future development.
• Champion adoption, training, and effective use of the platform across the organization and with clients.

Technical Expertise

• Apply advanced skills in SPSS, Excel, and other industry-standard tools to deliver robust data solutions.
• Utilize scripting languages where appropriate to automate workflows, improve efficiency, and enhance output capabilities.
• Identify and implement new technologies or methods to strengthen delivery.

Client Engagement

• Act as a key point of contact for clients in Europe, providing clear, solutions‑focused guidance.
• Collaborate with clients to understand their needs and translate them into technical and platform‑based solutions.
• Confidently present data outputs and explain methodologies to stakeholders at all levels.

Team & Process Development

• Mentor and upskill other team members to build technical capability and client service excellence.
• Drive process improvements to increase efficiency and scalability.
• Work closely with internal teams (Project Management, Operations, Product, and Engineering) to ensure seamless delivery.

Skills & Experience

• Proven expertise in market research data delivery, with deep experience in raw data and tabulations.
• Strong proficiency in SPSS and Excel; knowledge of additional tabulation or data processing tools is an advantage.
• Experience coding/scripting languages (e.g. Python) to optimize and automate workflows.
• Demonstrated experience using or leading technology platforms for data delivery; product ownership or stakeholder experience is highly desirable.
• Client‑facing experience, with the ability to confidently engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong problem‑solving skills, solutions‑focused mindset, and attention to detail.

What We Value

We Delight through Dedication

We go above and beyond for our clients, committed to delivering best‑in‑class service, understanding that every client we have is core to our success. We are the first to respond, the problem solver, the true partner and we stop at nothing until we have found a way to delight our clients.

We Lead with Trust

We approach our work with a data‑driven mindset, balanced by an acknowledgement that we are all human, first. Driven by three of our other values; Delight through dedication, Revel in Innovation, and Empowered to act like an Owner – we place trust in the entire team to find new and better way to deliver excellent client experiences at Walr.

We Revel in Innovation

We aren’t afraid to take informed risks, learn from mistakes and act with purpose to build the future. The creation of value defines our approach to innovation and runs through the core of the entire business. Continually challenging the norm, we are change agents who deliver innovative, new solutions for our clients in both technology and delivery, setting a benchmark for what great service looks like in our industry.

We Celebrate as a Team

Walr is a globally distributed team that equally emphasizes individual accountability and collective success. We each understand what success at Walr looks like, and how its measures, taken the time to celebrate actions and behaviors across the business that drive us towards this goal. We invest in growth through shared problem solving, learning and development and a consistent drive to improve how we work collectively. Prioritizing inclusivity and leaving egos behind, we see that the whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts.

We Are Empowered to Act Like Owners

Regardless of background, tenure or title, all employees are empowered to be ambitious, act courageously and be accountable for their actions, in pursuit of the future of Walr. Embracing the discomfort of change, owners continually focus on driving the key metrics for success, appreciating the value each client brings to the table and stopping at nothing to ensure we deliver exceptional experiences.

Seniority level: Director

Employment type: Contract

Job function: Information Technology

Industries: Data Infrastructure and Analytics

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