Data & Analytics Lead

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

You will be crucial in supporting our business by creating valuable, actionable insights about the data, and communicating your findings to the business.  You will work with various stakeholders to determine how to use business data for business solutions/insights.

How you will contribute

As the D&A lead for Greater China, you will lead crafting AI integrated Data & Analytics strategic vision & roadmap, building momentum by rallying the rest of the organization, implementing data & analytics identified priorities to deliver strong business value across all levels of organization at right cost structure, facilitating and conceptualizing adoption plans as well as continuous improvement plans.

• High Engaged with business team, understanding of China business and strong business partnership, growth mindset with agility. 
• Design and implement value-driving data& AI strategy for China Business Growth, Understand the value levers and pain points of the organization and articulate how AI and D&A are delivering tangible value, linked directly to the business strategy  
• Lead on ground activation and delivery of the BU’s agenda through MDS internal teams (regional and/or global) and external partners – this requires strong collaboration and influencing skills to drive adoption, relevancy, and business impact with speed.
• Partner with business leads and technical teams to deliver and sustain a robust Data Governance at source (enterprise & local systems), in hub (data lake / hub) and at consumption (analytics / AI products).
• Present, share insights with right storytelling at key leadership forums in business language.
• Minimizing complexity, establishing right ways of working to accelerate path to value by being choiceful and creative as well as having a growth mindset everyday will be essential.
• Systematic, active dissemination of AMEA D&A Solutions into Greater China where applicable and feasible.
• Elevate Greater China innovations to the region, helping domain leads refine innovations as regional / global capabilities that can travel.

Creating value from business-driven data and analytics initiatives at scale. An important task for the Greater China D&A leader is to support the business and other stakeholders in their solving their business problems via relevant data & analytics.

Raise the level of data coverage, usage, easy access and literacy in the organization. To become data driven the organization needs employees who can identify, understand and speak data.

Helps uncover and translate business requirements and stakeholder needs. This translation needs to be done in such a way that the technical specialists in the D&A team can understand (Data Management, Analytics Products, Partners and / or Data Science resources).

Data & analytics skills

Must have a good understanding of the concepts, methods and techniques used:

• Analytics, for example diagnostic, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive.
• AI, for example machine learning, natural language processing，Gen AI use cases 
• Data management, for example data integration (ETL) or metadata.
• Data architecture, for example the difference between data warehouse, data lake or data hub.
• Data modelling, for creation of right reusable data assets
• Data governance, for example MDM, data quality and data stewardship practices.
• Statistical skills, for example understanding the difference between correlation and causation.

Technology Skills

Good understanding of the tools and technologies in the D&A team:

• Programming languages like SQL, Python or R and notebooks like R Studio or Jupyter.
• Data integration tools like Informatica or Talend. Be familar with China cloud platform
• Analytics and Business Intelligence tools like Microsoft Power BI or Tableau or spotfire
• Big Data technologies like Big Query, SPARK and Databricks.

Soft Skills

• Leadership with high level of self-initiative and drive, for example leading the discussions on D&A agenda in the region and building a combined vision across multiple stakeholders
• Communication, for example conveying information to diverse audiences in a way that is easily understood and actionable.
• Facilitation and conflict resolution, for example hosting sessions to elicit ideas from others, understand their issues and encourage group participation.
• Creative thinking and being comfortable with unknown or unchartered territories, for example framing new concepts for business teams and brainstorming with business users about future product and services.
• Teamwork, for example working with both business domain teams as well as D&A teams and MDS stakeholders.
• Collaboration, for example fostering group problem solving and solution creation with business and technical team members.
• Relationship management, for example creating relationships and builds trust with internal and external stakeholders quickly.
• Storytelling, for example by creating a consistent, clear storyline for better understanding
• Influencing, for example by asserting ideas and persuading others to gain support across an organization or to adopt new behaviors.

Domain Skills

Must have a good understanding of the business process and associated data:

• Business Acumen, for example understanding business concepts, practices and business domain language to engage in problem solving sessions and discuss business issues in stakeholder language. Preferred experience in FMCG and knowledge in key domains (not limited to) Route to Market (RTM), Revenue Growth Management (RGM) and Demand Planning & Forecasting.
• Business Process Transformation, for example ability to understand how D&A can help redesign the way work is done.
• Business data, for example the structure, ownership and use within an organization

Other Skills

• Agility, Growth mindset will be crucial
• Project management capabilities including ability to manage risks, for example understanding of project management concepts to organize their own work and the ability to collaborate with project managers to align business expectations with the D&A team delivery capabilities.
• Vendor negotiation and effort estimation skills, for example to manage the right partner skills at right cost based on the complexity and importance of the initiatives to be delivered or supported
• Business case development, for example to help develop support for the experimenting selected use cases or measure the impact/business value created. For this the role can collaborate with business analysts in sales, marketing, RGM, finance or supply chain.
• Decision modelling, for example, supports decision makers and improves complicated decisions that involve trade-offs among alternative courses of action by using decision-problem models.
• UX/design, for example by creating products and visualizations that are easy to work with and support the activities required by the end users.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

MondelēZ International Entered The China Market In 1984. Headquartered In Shanghai, MondelēZ Greater China Is A Leading Company In The Snacks Business, Including Biscuits, Chocolate, Candy & Gum, And Beverages. With Over 4,000 Employees, MondelēZ Has Established Manufacturing Plants In East, South And North China As Well As A Global Biscuit R&D Technical Center In Suzhou. The Chinese Name Yi Zi (亿滋) Represents The Company’S Vision To Bring An Abundance Of Deliciousness To Consumers.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Type

RegularData ScienceAnalytics & Data Science