Data Product Lead - Sales & Marketing (F/M/X)

Job Description

Job Description:

Contract: Permanent/CDI

Segment: Royal Canin

Location: Aimargues, France (30 min from Montpellier) or London, United Kingdom

At Mars Petcare we have one Purpose: A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS™. Through comprehensive veterinary care, nutrition, breakthrough programmes in diagnostics, wearable health monitoring, DNA testing and pet welfare, we help pets in more than 130 countries.

The Petcare Segment consists of five Divisions: Pet Nutrition, Royal Canin, Mars Veterinary Health, Kinship and Science and Diagnostics. All five Divisions have a shared ambition, to become Powered by Data.

Integrating and analysing the diverse data from across our brands allows us to develop a richer understanding of the pets and pet owners we serve. These insights provide us the opportunity to individualise pet care, create new science and be a force for good. We believe that pets make the world a better place, and every day we strive to create a better world for them.

The role of Global Data Product Lead for Sales and Marketing is part of our Royal Canin (RC) Data & Analytics organisation. The role reports to the Royal Canin Global Data Architect. The role has direct responsibility to transform the Royal Canin Data Foundations across RC in the Sales and Marketing domains.

What are we looking for?

• Experience in working with data and analytics technologies within complex organizations

• Data Product management skills and Agile ways of working, with proven track record

• Business acumen and experience in working Sales and Marketing functions

• Great at developing new relationships, driving positive change, and matching analytics opportunities to data acquisition strategy, able to interact comfortably with more senior stakeholders up to Director level

• Excellent planning, project management, organizational orchestration, peer relationships

• Vendor management skills are welcome

• Good understanding of Data Protection and Privacy principles and practices including PI/PL

• Influences others outside of own job area regarding policies, practices, and procedures

• Excellent communication skills in English

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Define the overall Data Products vision and supervise their delivery for the Sales and Marketing functional area across Royal Canin.

• Partner with functional Business teams, Analytics and Data teams to develop a strategic product for the company

• Define the structure of analytics and data assets in the Sales and Marketing areas

• Collaborate with Data Engineering team to build reusable strategic data assets.

• Be the primary point of contact to other teams working on transformations and projects having dependencies with the Sales and Marketing strategic data assets (Pet owner 360 project, Petcare Ecosystem project, ERP/EOS project)

• Ensure appliance of Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Privacy & Security processes on data assets which belong to Sales & Marketing functional aera.

• Partner with other Data Product leads who support other functions to ensure good integration of Data and Analytics Products across the overall RC data architecture.

• Partner with Business Owners of Sales and Marketing functions (Director level) and main regional representatives in order to orchestrate and govern deliveries and product backlog.

• Partner with Petcare D&A team to further develop synergies with the Petcare Segment Data team and Ecosystem, especially supporting the enrichment of Royal Canin and of PetCare Ecosystem Data Assets and associated Analytics

What can you expect from Mars?

• At Mars, we believe in a relationship of mutual trust, dignity and respect between our company and Associates that is more meaningful than the standard employer/employee relationship.

• As Associates, we can expect to be respected, supported and valued as individuals, to be treated fairly and equitably.

• The opportunity to learn and develop, taking charge of your own career across Mars.

• A unique and ideal work environment to become the leader in health through nutrition for cats and dogs!

• Since 2017, Royal Canin has supported the K-DOG program of the Curie Institute, which trains dogs to detect breast cancer via olfaction.

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Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.