Head of Data Analytics

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Head of Data & Analytics - Your future role?

As a Head of Data & Analytics, based in Vernier (Geneva) or Kemptthal (Zürich), you will foster value creation through the organization’s data assets including internal and external data ecosystems, and envision and
drives data-enabled strategies enabling business outcomes.

As a member of the IM&T Management Committee, you will:
Primary management and operational accountabilities

Define data, AI, and analytics strategy. Drive the development and deployment of the enterprise’s data and analytics architecture, governance technologies, and data solutions. Work with executives to establish the vision for managing data as a business asset
Take accountability and responsibility for exploiting the value of enterprise information assets, and of the analytics used to render insights for decision-making, automated decisions, and augmentation of people performance. Develop methods to ensure consistent application and use of analytics. Be the champion and change agent to establish a data and information-based culture to help support the exploitation of strategic business opportunities.
Identify and establish the governance of the use and management of data, algorithms, and data-based solutions used for analysis, analytical applications, and automated decision-making.
Oversee the development and deployment of the enterprise’s data and analytics platform.
Accountable for providing thought leadership across the data science and analytics function, shaping strategy for opportunity creation.
Identify new kinds, types, and sources of data to enable business innovation throughout the organization. Create and oversee a centralized service for sourcing external data to ensure quality, traceability, timeliness, usability, and cost-effectiveness. Define processes for the effective, integrated introduction of new data.
Foster the creation of a data-driven culture, related competencies, and data literacy across the enterprise and lead these transformation efforts.
Lead the development, publishing, and maintenance of the organization’s information architecture, as well as a roadmap for its future development, ensuring that it matches and enables digital strategy and all business needs.
Lead, develop, and maintain data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts, for use by analysts throughout the organization.
Organize, lead, and constantly improve the organization’s capacity to develop insights with advanced analytics. Define organizational skills and capabilities, and job roles recruits candidates, and leads a team of data and analytics experts.
Develop, manage, allocate, and govern the annual budget for the data and analysis initiatives.

Regulator and compliance

Define and manage enterprise information management principles, policies, and programs for stewardship, advocacy, and custodianship of data and analytics, in concert with legal, information security, and corporate risk and compliance offices.
Develop and maintain controls on data quality, interoperability, and sources to effectively manage the corporate risk associated with the use of data and analytics.
Define, manage, and ensure an adequate information trust model, controls for master data, and metadata management, including reference data. Measures master data and reference data for compliance with policy, standards, and conceptual models. Assure the deployment and management of data quality monitoring practices.
Partner with the Head of Information Security and develop policies and controls for the appropriate protection of enterprise information assets through a life cycle, from creation to disposal.
Ensure that the data used for financial reporting and to support legal requirements is valid, reliable, traceable, timely, available, secure, and consistent. Ensure that appropriate audit controls exist for data and analytics that serve as the source material for regulatory reports. Ensure that business reports derived from controlled data are consistent and representative of the true state of the business.
Lead regulatory and compliance programs related to data and analytics assets.
Organize and lead a data and analytics governance council to provide executive sponsorship for and oversight of government policy creation and compliance.
Member of the core team interacting with regulators, and representing the enterprise to customers, suppliers, and external bodies in the development of industry data and analytics standards if and when applicable.

Your professional profile includes:
Academic Background

A master’s degree or any relevant degree in mathematics, computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
Academic qualification or professional training and experience in legal and regulatory areas are also desirable.

Professional Experience

15+ years of business experience, ideally in digital or IT domains — recently at or near the executive level. Broad strategy, leadership, and business experience internally is desired, and within the vertical industry is a plus.
8+ years of progressive leadership experience in leading cross-functional teams and enterprise-wide programs, operating and influencing effectively across the organization and within complex contexts.
Experience in integrating complex, cross-corporate processes and information strategies, and/or designing strategic metrics and scorecards.

Technical Skills

Excellent business acumen and interpersonal skills; able to work across business lines at a senior level to influence and effect change to achieve common goals.
Demonstrated leadership; proven track record of leading complex, multidisciplinary talent teams in advanced technology domains and delivering solutions.
Proven data literacy; The ability to describe business use cases/outcomes, data sources and management concepts, and analytical approaches/options. Experience in strategic technology planning and execution, and policy development and maintenance. Outstanding analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Ability to effectively drive business, culture, and technology change in a dynamic and complex operating environment.
Gravitas to develop a framework for information and analytics governance, as well as to influence and embed it in all levels of the business.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Givaudan is committed to equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications regardless of cultural and social background, gender, age, religion or sexual identity.
We also have a safe working environment, progressive working conditions and are certified as an equal pay employer.