Regional Data Governance Manager

The business context:
Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is the €2.5bn+ foodservice division of Unilever. It leads the dynamic Food Service market across its categories and has ambitious growth objectives, marketing a range of professional food and beverage products and services to chefs across 6 clusters in 72 countries.
Digital offers a huge opportunity and future growth for UFS depends on evolving the business model and developing contact strategies to reach the 95% of operators we do not visit. Ambitious targets to transform our business towards a more digitally advanced one have been agreed with the Global board and set in motion.
In line with our ambition to continuously be a data-driven organization, we aim to remove siloes and bridge gaps by synergizing the strategy and data flows from multiple global platform owners without sacrificing the quality and integrity of data.

Scope of work: Southeast Asia & South Asia
Job Description:
• Drive and nurture stable data environment in the region, for use of the local data teams.
• Design, implement, track and drive improvement in data quality metrics.
• Establish data governance by standardizing data capture, ingestion, transformation, mapping and validation processes across several use cases (sales, marketing, operations and more), and rolling this out across the region.
• Identify process simplification, automation, data harmonization or de-duplication opportunities to improve data quality and lead projects to execute the same.
• Perform data validation alongside local and global data engineers.
• Work with regional Digital Selling team to refine and update regional data strategy to support business priorities.
• Provide guidance to local data teams on utilization of SharePoint, Azure Data Warehouses and Databricks within a fast-paced enterprise environment.
• Work closely with global data and tech teams to ensure proper roll-out and data integration for existing and new solutions.
• Coordinate among the global data team and local & regional stakeholders.
• Maintain proper technical documentation and network architectural diagrams for the region.
• Conducts Data Standard trainings and monitor data adherence.
• Support partner teams in developing their data management strategies to seamlessly integrate with the central tracking tools.

• At least 5 years of experience in data engineering and working experience with managing data infrastructures.
• BSc or MSc in computer science or relevant field.
• Experience with SAP and/or Marketing Automation tools such as Salesforce & Marketo.
• Experience with implementing data governance and quality programs.
• Experience developing data transfer in integration interfaces with other solutions as well as migration.
• Have a leadership attitude to help spread out the data quality mindset across the platform.
• Highly skilled and experienced in Python, Spark and SQL.
• Understanding of MS Azure data tooling (Databricks, Data Factory, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Understanding of distributed systems.
• Experience with building ETL data pipelines.
• Experience with using CI/CD pipelines and Continuous Testing.
• Experience with managing data infrastructures, governance, privacy, and mapping or developing data transfer in integration interfaces.
• Experience with database querying tools (JIRA).
• Knowledge of API integrations & setting up future-proof data networks in line with the business strategy.
• Strong project and time management.
• Ability to adapt and work in a VUCA environment.
• Fluent in English
• Ability to effectively communicate with business and technical stakeholders.

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