Data Champion

**Functie**:
Are you passionate about data, data modelling & data usages? Is your ambition to strengthen a culture of performance management, managing key metrics, insights, reporting and visualizations?
Are you keen to help influence the organization towards **automated data-driven processes** and decision making?

Are you looking to transform our data usage in Belgium, starting from tactical and hands-on needs to building automated solutions and advanced analytics over the 3 coming years ?

Then you are the Data Champion we are looking for to strengthen our Supply Management team.

We're a team who see every challenge as a new opportunity in a fast-moving world. We're focused and competitive in day-to-day operations business.

**Responsibilities**:

- Champion our data, act as trustee of data management topics
- Support the business by identifying & accelerating the development and implementation of data solutions
- Focus on strategic capability building whilst feeling the pulse of the organization to tactically assist
- Offer effective data, performance reporting, analysis and insights by overcoming our current limitations
- Own & manage all data management topics within supply management (incl. processes, quality & governance but also operational reporting, data cleansing, data migration)
- Contribute actively to the data transformation agenda and be hands-on to run the data action improvement plan at country level
- Treat data as a strategic and valuable asset, improve data quality & leverage its value
- Spearhead cultural change by instilling a data centric culture of continuous improvement

**Profiel**:

- You hold a **Master’s degree in business education or engineering** with a solid experience in data management, -governance & -processing with practical business impact
- You have an outstanding ability to **understand complex analytics topics** and distil them into simple conclusions and visualizations
- You are **passionate about data**, data modelling & data usages. You have a good knowledge and experience of data quality issues/challenges & can find workaround to deliver on the short term while improving overall data management processes
- You have established data management and **project management skills** and are able to build and deliver a roadmap of initiatives
- You have a **knowledge of supply management** and technology teams, to develop and sustain solutions
- Having an experience in Retail/Foodservice/FMCG is considered a big plus
- You are able to work in a **large matrix organization** across several countries, can successfully influence others and **build partnerships** to both deliver projects and drive cultural change in an organization
- You are a team player with **good communication & influencing skills**. You have the **ability to federate**, establish links and cooperate with other data roles/stakeholders (regulators, users, legal, etc.)
- You have sound commercial judgment, **think critically** and dispose of learning agility to simplify complex environments
- You can **engage people** and teams in a difficult environment, demonstrate positive ‘can do’ attitude, enthusiasm and resilience
- You are able to energize others and help (non)analytics professionals grow on the data topic
- You are **fluent in English, French and/or Dutch**

**Aanbod**:
A challenging position in a dynamic and healthy organization that emphasizes your development and learning process.
- A full-time _contract of indefinite duration_ and varied position
- An attractive salary with extralegal benefits
- An induction program to facilitate your welcome & integration at Sodexo
- An organization with space for initiative and creativity
- A workplace located in Brussels (Ixelles), near the station of Etterbeek and the Delta metro station

**Quality of Life on the workplace**:

- A pleasant working environment and (trendy & modern workspaces) with flexible working hours and possibility to work from home
- A good work-life balance
- A conciergerie that offers you various services: dry cleaning, ironing, shoe repair, purchase of gifts, etc.
- A wide choice of durable meals in our restaurant