Director of Data

Job summary

A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT US! Foo*** is an award winning cloud based software platform that helps retailers and food companies across the world manage their supply chain, quality control and trading and planning management. Our software solutions are currently utilised by 10 of the largest food retailers in the world.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Champion adoption of modern data practices including real-time analytics and ML-ready data infrastructure
• Work closely with the Data Architect to evolve our data systems and address infrastructure gaps
• Enable advanced analytics and AI/ML capabilities that serve both customer-facing features and internal intelligence
• People Leadership — 15%
• Directly manage the Data Architect and Senior Data Engineer; provide leadership to the BI Reporting team
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning within a small, high-impact team
• Conduct performance reviews, provide coaching, and create clear career development paths
• Recruit selectively to build capability as needs evolve, without growing headcount for its own sake
• Ensure the team understands how their work contributes to Foo***'s commercial success
• EXPERIENCE AND
• To perform this job successfully, the Director of Data should have experience with:
• Minimum

Responsibilities

• Strategic Data Leadership — 35%
• Define and execute the enterprise data strategy aligned with Foo***'s product roadmap and commercial objectives
• Partner with the CTO and executive leadership to position data insights as a core differentiator in our market
• Establish data governance frameworks, policies, and standards appropriate for a PE-backed business preparing for growth
• Build business cases and ROI models for data infrastructure investments
• Represent data capabilities in product strategy discussions, helping shape our evolution toward data insights products
• Define and monitor data quality, accessibility, and utilisation metrics across the business
• Cross-Functional Enablement — 30%
• Build trusted advisor relationships with heads of Professional Services, Finance, HR, Sales, and Operations to understand their data challenges and deliver solutions
• Lead development of self-service analytics capabilities that empower non-technical users across the business
• Partner with Finance on financial reporting, forecasting models, and business performance analytics
• Support Professional Services with customer success metrics, utilisation reporting, and service delivery insights

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