Ice Cream Customer Analytics Engineering Lead

This is a hands-on technical role with strong business integration. The ideal candidate not only has deep data engineeringexpertisebut also thrives on working directly with commercial and customer development stakeholders to co-design datasolutionsthat integrate seamlessly into business processes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with business stakeholders to translate needs into well designed and executed technology products that are embedded into daily decision-making, with a focus on promotion optimization, syndicated and retailer data, demand forecasting, shopper marketing, digital commerce, and sales reporting

• Design & implement a modern data lake environment to support scalable ingestion, transformation, and storage of retailer, syndicated, and internal commercial data.

• Establish the semantic layer and data modeling framework, defining consistent business logic and unified data definitions, consistent with how the businessoperates, that enable self-service analytics and integration across data products.

• Build and operationalize advanced analyticmodels, including demand forecasting, promotion performance, assortment optimization, and shopper behavior modeling.

• Liaisewith local and global business and technology teams to define, manage, and enhance Magnum’s Customer Development analytics capabilities

• Maintain pulse on market for new third-party data and tool offerings

• Support the Customer Development Leadership Team (CDLT) in its achievement of key sales KPIs

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED: 

• Technical aptitude and the ability to lead teams toward business-value focused technology solutions

• 8+ years of experience with cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and Databricks, with strongproficiencyin SQL,PySpark, Python, and DAX for building high-performance data transformations and pipelines.

• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Delta Lake, Power BI,DBT,Alteryxand related cloud data technologies.

• Experience with data visualization tools likePowerBI,Tableau. 

• Strong ability to communicate technical findings to non-technical audiences, turning data into actionable business narratives.

• Intellectual curiosity and strong analytic ability

• Preparedness to develop a deep understanding of business operations and needs for the Customer Development function

• Excellent planning, organization, and project estimation skills

• Strong understanding of the use and management of retailer and syndicated data

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross functional teams both locally and globally

• Ability to communicate and present complex topics clearly and compellingly to business stakeholders

SKILLS:

• Strong understanding of data engineeringprinciples andapproaches

• Solid understanding of data modelling and semantic layer design to support analytics and reporting use cases.

• Proficiencyin coding languages such as Python,PySpark, DAX and SQL

• Ability to collect business requirements and translate into technical solutions

• Experience using tools like Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, and Alteryx

• Experienceleveragingdata sources such asCircana, Nielsen, panel data, and retailer data

• Ability to design intuitive and compelling front end business applications

• Data Engineering, ComputerScienceor study in relatedfield.

EXPERIENCES & QUALIFICATIONS: 

REQUIRED:

• Experience designingand implementingenterprise scaleend-to-end data products for a business focused audience

• Experience collecting business requirements and translating them into technology projects

• Experienceapplying data science, machine learning, and AI to business problems in Consumer Goods organizations

• Experience working in a consumer goods organization

• Experience with theuse andmanagement ofretailerand syndicated data (such asCircana, Nielsen)

• Experience inaconsumergoodsCustomerDevelopment function

• Experience with retailer data platforms such as Scintilla,SymphonyAI, 1010data and 84.51 Stratum

• Familiarity with Digital Commerceand Shopper Marketing datasolutions

• Experience managing analytics teams

WHAT YOU CANEXPECT:

• A unique mix of global scale & start-up spirit—€8.3bn powerhouse with an agile, entrepreneurial mindset.We’rebuilding a new high growth Ice Cream company from the ground up.​

• Career without limits—42 markets, international opportunities, andfast trackedgrowth.​

• A performance-driven culture—Freedom to act, disrupt and grow – your success is measured by impact.​

• A company that celebrates joy, innovation, and purpose—We create extraordinary careers, just like our ice cream creates extraordinary moments.