Global Data Excellence Manager

Are you passionate about turning complex digital marketing data into trusted, scalable solutions that empower teams across the globe? Join Danone as our Global Data Excellence Manager and play a key role in building the foundation for strong digital data governance within data-driven marketing. You will help create and govern best-in-class data products, ensuring analysts, marketers, and business teams have access to reliable, accessible, and actionable digital data. In this role, you'll be at the intersection of marketing, data, digital, and technology, working with global stakeholders to deliver trusted data solutions that improve decision-making and accelerate business impact. This role is based in Danone Place Amsterdam, the global headquarters of our Specialized Nutrition business. As Global Data Excellence Manager, you will support the Marketing Data Domain by ensuring the quality, governance, accessibility, and adoption of digital marketing data products, including areas such as D2C, CRM, website, search, campaign, platform, and HCP-related data. You will help translate business needs into scalable data solutions while fostering a strong data culture across Danone. Ultimately, your work will enable analysts and business teams worldwide to spend less time preparing data and more time generating insights that drive growth.

Drive Data Excellence Partner with business teams to gather requirements and translate them into scalable data solutions. Support the development of trusted, reusable marketing data products that serve global and local teams. Ensure data products meet business needs while balancing quality, scalability, and governance requirements. Lead Data Governance Manage day-to-day governance activities across the Marketing Data Domain. Oversee the lifecycle of key data assets and maintain high-quality business metadata. Define and monitor data quality standards, coordinate issue resolution, and drive continuous improvement. Ensure compliant handling and classification of data in line with privacy regulations and enterprise policies. Support data access management and governance processes. Enable Data-Driven Decision Making Ensure marketing analytics products and tools are powered by accurate and reliable data. Improve the quality and consistency of marketing, digital, media, CRM, and eCommerce data. Help teams across markets unlock greater value from data and analytics. Build Capability and Community Foster adoption of data governance best practices across the organization. Develop playbooks, training materials, and enablement programs. Build and nurture a global community of analysts and data users, sharing knowledge and best practices. Act as an ambassador for data excellence across Danone.

We're looking for someone who combines strong data expertise with stakeholder management and a passion for enabling business impact. You bring: 8-12 years of experience in marketing, digital, media, analytics, or data management roles within global organizations. Experience with data governance, data quality management, or data stewardship. Strong knowledge of marketing data ecosystems, including digital media, eCommerce, CRM, search, social, campaign performance, and web analytics. Hands-on experience working with data and analytics tools, including SQL and/or Python. Proven ability to manage complex projects and stakeholders independently. Experience working with or managing external partners such as media agencies, technology vendors, or consulting firms. Understanding of emerging digital trends, including generative search, retail search, and evolving marketing measurement approaches. Experience developing frameworks, training programs, and scalable ways of working. Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders across business and technical teams. A collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented mindset.

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