Global Director D&A Product Management Demand F/M/X

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Global Director D&A Product Management Demand F/M/X

Employer: Mars
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive
Closing date: 24 Feb 2025

Job Description:

Global Director D&A Product Management Demand

Multiple locations: London-UK, Slough-UK, Aimargues, Strasbourg – FR, Denmark – CPH

• Royal Canin is undergoing a significant Digital Transformation journey. Our ability to solve the most critical problems across Mars in a User Centric way through Data & Analytics is fundamental to our growth ambition and transformation.
• We are looking to accelerate our ability to solve problems and ultimately drive value for Mars Inc.
• Building on this momentum, we are recruiting a Director of D&A Product Management to join our Royal Canin Global Data & Analytics Team who will lead the Global Demand Analytics agenda.

The Role

• The Global Director D&A Product Management will define and manage the Royal Canin Global Demand Data & Analytics Strategy, Vision and Roadmap and shape a fit-for-purpose capabilities-portfolio across the Division & in partnership with the Petcare Segment.
• The Global Director D&A Product Management will interface with Global, Regional, Market Operations Leaders across Sales and Marketing to identify & shape the Analytics Product Portfolio including areas of opportunity, value articulation & prioritization of use-cases to meet the performance ambition that will create business value and advance the Royal Canin growth agenda.
• The job holder will be instrumental in helping to establish, support and reinforce the transformations needed to build a best-in-class data driven culture within Royal Canin.
• This role will need to be in lockstep with key transformational programmes such as EOS, Salesforce/CRM, OMP/Planning and SAP S4/ERP.

Within this team, you will:

• Develop and nurture relationships across Royal Canin and the PetCare businesses ecosystem.
• Act as a change agent for shifting from project to product mindset.
• Partner with the Global & Regional Data & Analytics Leadership teams to ensure alignment and consistency in the creation of Global roadmaps.
• Understand key processes and strategic decision-making forums to enable successful data & analytics products embedment.
• Act as a thought leader, changing expectations of ‘what is possible’ & an organizational coach.

Qualifications & Competencies

• Strategic inquiry to identify the underlying needs of Sales and Marketing stakeholders.
• This role must “lead with problems, not tools” in an unbiased way.
• Partner heavily with Operations leaders in the business to define the unique value proposition for each Product.
• Work closely with end users of the analytics products to ensure positive end user experience.
• Technical breadth to identify and apply art-of-the-possible with Data, Analytics and AI.

Knowledge / Experience

• Strong track record of customer facing success and business acumen.
• Strength in business-to-science translation.
• Analytics foundation – knowledgeable in both operations research and the data science domain.
• Experience in delivery management of analytical products.
• Practitioner experience in the Sales, Marketing domains highly preferred.
• Experience advantageous in technology/source systems (Salesforce, SAP ERP, Azure, SQL, Hive, PowerBI, React).

Education & Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Management, Business Administration, STEM subjects, or related field. Master’s level advantageous.
• Overall, 10-15 years of experience; Minimum 5 years of experience in Data & Analytics.
• Minimum 2 years of Analytics experience in the CPG industry.

Key Mars Leadership Competencies

• Business Insight
• Balances Stakeholders
• Manages Ambiguity
• Action Oriented
• Cultivates Innovation
• Comfort around Higher Management
• Tech Savvy

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.