Criterion Asia Recruitment – Head of Data (Up to 200k)

Responsibilities:

• Provide analytical leadership to align data techniques with business questions and challenges.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver comprehensive business solutions, including partnerships with domain experts, solution architects, data engineers, and visualization specialists.
• Develop and own a portfolio of data and analytics initiatives, ensuring alignment with business strategy and market needs.
• Prioritize analytics use cases based on their potential to address existing business challenges and drive value.
• Create business cases to outline the costs, benefits, and impact of proposed data initiatives.
• Execute market-driven use cases while integrating strategic analytics from various functions and categories.
• Innovate and test new ideas within smaller scopes, utilizing agile methodologies to showcase value.
• Oversee data governance within the market, ensuring consistent application in collaboration with market stakeholders and the central data office.
• Lead change management efforts to foster data literacy and capability building across all functions and categories.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in commercial analytics.
• Proven ability to advise senior executive leadership.
• Proficiency in data visualization tools and statistical software (e.g., MS Power BI, R, Python, Open source) and cloud environments (e.g., AZURE, AWS, Google Cloud).
• Experience in applying analytical models to solve business problems with demonstrated business value.
• Ability to simplify complex concepts for business stakeholders.
• Extensive business knowledge in the FMCG, CPG, or Retail industry and the application of analytics in these contexts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven track record of coordinating across teams.
• Leadership experience with minimal supervision.
• Experience working in a global environment and managing virtual teams to deliver business value.

Criterion Asia Recruitment : https://criterionasia.com/