Data and Analytics Lead - Source to Pay

ROYAL CANIN's mission is to transform each cat and dog's health and well-being by pushing the limits of nutrition and knowledge in partnership with pet professionals. To make our ambitions a reality, Royal Canin is undertaking a major business transformation focusing on end-to-end business processes, people, and data, enabled by technology. Through this transformation, we aim to reinvent our core processes, adapting our data models and tech platforms while focusing on enhancing the experience for users, customers, and our associates.

We are hiring a Data and Analytics Engagement Lead for the Source to Pay process area. The Engagement Lead will work closely with global process owners, business process owners, change experience teams, and data and analytics teams to challenge, harmonise, standardise, and where needed adapt/deliver reporting requirements. The role requires individuals to closely collaborate with various functions while maintaining focus on delivery, deployment, and adoption of reporting in the markets. Experience in business intelligence and an appreciation of functional domains is essential to be successful in this role. Exposure to understanding definitions and delivery of KPIs in procure to pay and sustainability process areas would be ideal. The role requires candidates to know about data architecture, data modelling with a great understanding of KPIs. To be successful, you need to have excellent functional understanding of the Source to Pay functional area with BI exposure, instead of being a technical BI expert.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage business and data owners to develop data strategies, build data acquisition roadmaps, and identify external data opportunities.
• Manage collection, assessment, and integration of the data assets.
• Drive change to align strategic needs into data acquisition.
• Ensure data architecture of data model is fit for purpose for reporting needs.
• Inform design of source agnostic integrated data model for reporting.
• Highlight areas of data management, distribution, and consumption patterns for architecture.
• Understand data models in the Source to Pay process and ERP systems such as SAP.
• Have a sound understanding of Microsoft Azure Analytics Tech Stack.
• Collaborate with change experience managers for business readiness for critical milestones.
• Engage with process owners to catalogue reporting requirements.
• Document reporting requirements and translate functional requirements to system requirements to support development of reports.
• Advocate for self-service and support with deployment and adoption within the business.
• Collaborate closely with the EOS teams to ensure the smooth deployment of reports across digital core and edge systems, including service introduction.

What can you expect from Mars? Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented associates, all guided by the Five Principles. Join a purpose-driven company, where we strive to build the world we want tomorrow, today. Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University. An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus. This role is a project-based transformation role and has a current expected end date of 3 years. As we move closer to the date, we will work with you to explore other opportunities for employment within the Mars family of companies. If a suitable alternative role is not available at that time, your employment will end.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalised as a result of such a request.