As the digital arm for the world's largest food and beverage company, Nestlé IT & Digital Americas harnesses the power of data, analytics, and innovative technology to deliver transformative solutions and business resiliency for Nestlé businesses and iconic brands from Purina® to Nescafé®.We’re innovators, strategic collaborators, value multipliers, and digital business leaders committed to delivering results that create meaningful experiences and drive value, enabling Nestlé to win in the marketplace. By joining, you become part of a 150-year legacy and a global team of 270,000+. We invest in our people—their growth, development, and sense of belonging. This shared unity and purpose is what motivates individuals to join, stay, and advance their careers within Nestlé.

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Position Summary:

Join Nestlé USA as the Senior Director for Data Strategy & Data Fabric, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping our data vision and strategy! You will spearhead the development of Azure Data Fabric's strategic capabilities, driving alignment across internal and external data sources. Your leadership will be crucial in advancing our Data Management organization, overseeing capability investments, financial management, and forging key data partnerships that empower business analytics and foster innovation in critical areas such as Strategic Revenue Management, Digital Marketing, and Connected Supply Chain.

In this dynamic role, you will collaborate closely with teams across Functions, Divisions, Analytics, IT and Digital. By leveraging agile best practices, you will transform data into a trusted and valuable product, delivering a unified set of data assets that enhance the entire enterprise. Your efforts will ensure that data is readily available for consumption, enabling informed, data-driven decision-making that propels our business forward.

Develop and implement the Nestlé USA Data Strategy to deliver Data Fabric capabilities, including Data Catalog, Governance, Architecture, and Fluency, along with technical solutions like data lakes and platforms to support data science and advanced analytics using agile methodologies (CI/CD, DevOps/MLOps).
Oversee the end-to-end delivery of data engineering solutions that enable scalable, high-quality data assets to power analytics, AI, and business decision-making across the enterprise.
Lead Data teams to collaborate with business divisions in identifying and integrating key data assets into the Data Fabric for effective business intelligence and analytics.
Lead the Data Governance Executive Group and the Data Governance Council to promote best practices and resolve governance issues in collaboration with business divisions.
Establish strategies for integrating internal and external data sources and partnerships, supporting data negotiations to align with Nestlé USA's business strategy.
Lead the strategic direction, development, and lifecycle management of enterprise data and analytics platforms, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with business objectives.
Own and evolve DevSecOps processes and tooling across the data ecosystem to drive secure, automated, and efficient deployment pipelines, fostering a culture of continuous integration and delivery.
Collaborates with Regional and Global IT & Digital leaders and Product groups to ensure understanding of the business strategy, goals, and context to properly incorporate those into the product, platform and data roadmaps
Set financial, operational, and quality objectives for Data Management projects and activities.
Engage with industry leaders and forums to bring best-in-class data management practices to Nestlé USA.
Oversee the recruitment, development, and retention of a high-performing team of data engineers, architects, scientists, and other relevant roles in strategy and operations. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, professional growth, and collaboration to ensure team members are motivated and equipped to meet evolving technology needs.
Develop standards and policies for data creation and consumption to ensure standardization, security, compliance, and trustworthiness of information.
Enhance knowledge sharing through a centralized data source for information, analysis, testing, and reporting, ensuring accessibility and optimal performance in analytics.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited college or university
15+ years of overall professional experience with 10+ years being focused in Data Management, Data Governance, Data Operations and or consulting in the data domain
5+ years of experience leading Data Management vision, strategy based on key objectives and goals in large company. Including strategic capabilities master plan and financial investment decisions.
3+ years of experience partnering with change management through a digital transformation

Other

Master’s degree in quantitative discipline such as Information Technology, Data Management, Business Analytics
Experience working in Consumer Packaged Goods or Retail industries
Significant stakeholder management experience in a large matrix organization.
Leadership and/or senior-level experience in data management and architecture organizational design with an ability to lead and deploy teams on multi-functional projects in successful outcomes.

Don’t meet all the qualifications listed under “other”? These are preferred, but not required. When you apply for a role with Nestlé Purina, we ensure that individual confidentiality is held to the highest regard. We are intentional about creating an inclusive workplace for everyone. We consider our associates our most valuable assets. Please apply for full consideration.

REQUISITION ID:351751

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