Global Commercial Data, Analytics & Insights Lead

Job Description :

About us: 

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

 
About the Function:
 
Our Digital and Technology (D&T) team are innovators, delivering ground-breaking solutions that will help shape the future of our iconic brands. Technology touches every part of our business, from the sourcing of sustainable ingredients to marketing and development of our online platforms. We utilise data insights to build competitive advantage, supporting our people to deliver value faster.

Our D&T team includes some of the most talented digital professionals in the industry. Every day, we come together to push boundaries and innovate, shaping the digital solutions of tomorrow. Whatever your passion, we’ll help you become the best you can be, creating career-defining work and delivering breakthrough thinking.

About the role:

As the Data & Analytics Commercial Lead for the Commercial Value Stream, you will own the budget for relevant products and cost centers while driving the vision, strategy, and adoption of data, analytics, and insights solutions. This role bridges strategic planning and operational execution to deliver value at scale, ensuring global consistency while meeting local market needs.

You will be responsible for establishing and leading data and analytics product teams, defining product roadmaps, and aligning business outcomes with data-driven decision-making. Success in this role hinges on your ability to influence across a matrixed organization, deliver impactful insights, and drive the democratization of analytics through an agile, self-service ecosystem.

Role Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership

• Define and own the Value Stream products' vision, roadmap, and value case.
• Develop product strategies, features, and release plans based on business strategies, in-depth data analysis, and user needs.
• Drive value-based prioritization, balancing customer needs, technology requirements, and total cost of ownership.
• Align product development with business rhythms and processes to maximize adoption and value realization.

Operational Excellence

• Lead and mentor agile teams comprising data analysts, engineers, and scrum masters.
• Enable self-service analytics ecosystems to democratize data access across the organization.
• Deliver data products that integrate seamlessly with business processes to drive actionable insights.
• Manage change effectively, addressing barriers and aligning teams toward desired outcomes.

Collaboration & Communication

• Influence stakeholders across global, regional, and local functions to align on priorities and decisions.
• Partner with business owners to understand and prioritize data needs, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Foster a culture of data storytelling to drive faster, insight-driven decisions.

Qualifications and Experience:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, economics, engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in data product management or leading reporting and analytics solutions.
• Expertise in Agile methodologies (Scrum, LEAN, Kanban).
• Proven experience in data warehousing, ETL, API integrations, and data governance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams in delivering data analytics products.
• Strong technical proficiency with tools like Tableau, Power BI, or QlikView and databases such as Azure SQL Server, DataBricks.
• Experience with cloud environments and big data technologies).
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills for engaging stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree (M.A., M.S., or MBA) in a relevant field.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise data analytics and data product management.
• Leadership experience in global, matrixed organizations, ideally within the CPG industry.
• Expertise in advanced analytics techniques (e.g., predictive modeling, segmentation, sales forecasting).
• Proven success in building scalable, globally relevant, and locally impactful data products.

Key Competencies

• Strategic thinking with the ability to balance long-term vision and immediate priorities.
• Strong influencing skills to navigate complex, matrixed organizations.
• Creativity and problem-solving to address business challenges with innovative solutions.
• Ability to align technical capabilities with business value to maximize impact.

This role demands a balance of strategic foresight, technical expertise, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, value-driven data products. Success will be measured by the adoption of solutions, stakeholder satisfaction, and the tangible business impact delivered. 

Flexible Working Statement: 

Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one. 

Diversity statement: 

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

1HQ

Additional Locations :

Budapest

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-02-27