QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES

• Strategic inquiry to identify the underlying needs of Sales and Marketing stakeholders and influencing the organization to embrace new methods and technologies
• This role must “lead with problems, not tools” in an unbiased way to determine when appropriate to drive scaling as-is versus when to opportunistically evolve the Product to support increasing competitive advantage.
• Partner heavily with Operations leaders in the business, Product Delivery and Enablement functions, and with functional experts to define the unique value proposition for each Product.
• Work closely with end users of the analytics products to ensure positive end user experience to deliver on adoption and sustained business value.
• Technical breadth to identify and apply art-of-the-possible with Data, Analytics and AI & ensure knowledge and best practices sharing across segments to ensure reusability and improving analytical maturity

KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE

• Strong track record of customer facing success and business acumen in working with teams to identify problems to solve, ideating on the art of the possible, and bringing possibilities to life
• Strength in business-to-science translation to enable partnering with business teams and technology teams in bringing analytics product ideas to life
• Analytics foundation – knowledgeable in both operations research and the data science domain
• Experience in delivery management of analytical products, or awareness of the drivers of complexity within delivery
• 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

• Batchelor’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

• 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.
• Starting with key Demand business problems and/or future-back capability needs, 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 as well as evangelizing a product-led mindset while fostering a new way of delivering Data & Analytics products for speed and maximum impact.
• This role will need to be in lockstep with the key transformational programmes such as EOS, Salesforce/CRM, OMP/Planning and SAP S4/ERP to understand the capabilities that may come and evolve and their impact on our data capture and analytical needs.