Director, Data Engineering Solutions - Growth

Mars
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8 months ago
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Job Description:

Are you passionate about Data and Analytics (D&A) and excited about how it can completely transform the way an enterprise works? Do you have the strategic vision, technical expertise, and leadership skills to drive data-driven solutions? Do you want to work in a dynamic, fast-growing category? If so, you might be the ideal candidate for the role of Director, Data Engineering and Solutions, in the Data and Analytics function for Global Pet Nutrition (PN) at Mars.

Pet Nutrition (PN) is the most vibrant category in the FMCG sector. As we work to transform this exciting category, a new program, Digital First, has been mobilized by the Mars Pet Nutrition (PN) leadership team. Digital First places pet parents at the center of all we do in Mars PN, while digitalizing a wide range of business process areas, and creating future fit capabilities to achieve ambitious targets in top line growth, earnings, and pet parent centricity. The Digital First agenda requires Digitizing at scale and requires you to demonstrate significant thought leadership, quality decision making, deep technical know-how, and an ability to navigate complex business challenges while building and leading a team of world class data and analytics practitioners.

With Digital First, PN is moving to a Product based model to create business facing digital capabilities. Director, Data Engineering Solutions - Growth is a strategic role that oversees responsible for leading our data engineering efforts, overseeing the development, implementation, operationalization and maintenance of data solutions across growth data functions and products to support our digital ambition. This role will play a key role in driving the development and management of data solutions while ensuring alignment with product team across Growth domain to enable the multi-billion-dollar Pet Nutrition division’s digital needs. Reporting to the Sr. Director- Data Foundations (Global Pet Nutrition), the person in this role will be a part of the Global PN Data foundation Leadership team. The role operates globally and partners with PN D&A leaders, PN business and digital leaders across all functions. In addition, this role will be working closely with cross-divisional and cross-segment data teams to drive synergies and leverage best practices

What are we looking for?

As part of Digital First, a new role has been created to build the foundational data capabilities that will power all our analytics products and create transformational business impact for the Pet Nutrition Division.

This role encompasses data solution operationalization and scalethat support the business goals and analytics needs of the Pet Nutrition segment.

This role will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product management, data strategy and governance, data science, and business development.

The role serves as part of the global digital organization focused on enabling data driven decision making.

This role will also collaborate with and influence other D&A and Digital leaders across Mars to align on data standards, best practices, and emerging technologies.

What will be your key responsibilities?

Mars Principles: Live and exemplify the Five Principles of Mars, Inc. within self and team.Leadership and Team Management:Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, data modelers. Provide guidance and support in the design, implementation, and maintenance of data solutions. Foster a collaborative and high-performance team culture focused on innovation and excellence.Technical Leadership:Provide technical leadership and guidance on data engineering, data architecture, and data governance. Evaluate and implement data solution tools and platforms to support data initiatives. Stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies in data engineering and data modelling.Data Solution Development: Drive the development and deployment of data assets within the context of data solutions. Partner with stakeholders across growth product teams and business teams to identify opportunities for optimizing data solution structures. Ensure data assets meet quality, integrity, and usability standard.DataOps and Optimization:spearhead DataOps initiatives to streamline data engineering workflows and improve operational efficiency. Implement automation tools and practices for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) of data solutions. Lead implementation of data pipeline performance and optimize for scalability, reliability, and speedStandardization and Governance:Own the standardization and governance of data assets across the organization.Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with PN D&A leadership, PN product owners, and segment D&A leadership to articulate the strategic value of data and advocate for investments in data capabilities and policies.Resource management: Manage resources throughout the development lifecycle, from ideation to ongoing optimization. Manage budget allocation.Performance Monitoring: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and implement monitoring systems for deployed data, solution, and platform architecture principles to ensure efficient D&A operations

What can you expect from Mars?

Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles. Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today. Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University. An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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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.

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