Responsibilities
- Design and implement a regional data strategy consistent with overarching organizational goals.
- Support data integration during mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
- Discover and activate data-driven opportunities to improve business performance.
- Identify and collaborate with external partners for data and open innovation initiatives.
- Lead long-term projects focused on improving company risk assessment models.
- Develop strategic approaches for internal development, external acquisition, or hybrid data sourcing.
- Evaluate alternative data acquisition methods, including cost structures and influencing factors.
- Manage data-related business requirements and projects in coordination with IT and Operations teams.
- Build long-term data development plans tailored to individual country needs.
- Develop a roadmap for data quality improvements and define measurable KPIs.
- Monitor performance and output of data factories and data production centers.
- Oversee data production workflows and operational workloads.
- Track delivery, quality, and performance metrics across data systems.
- Research and assess new data sources, both traditional and alternative, for market relevance.
- Carry out competitive benchmarking in data capabilities and sourcing strategies.
- Create country-specific data roadmaps based on local market demands.
- Evaluate and maintain data quality standards across systems.
- Test the predictive value and business impact of new data sources.
- Support local Enhanced Information Centers in managing relationships with Information Providers and contract negotiations.
- Serve as an internal advisor on data-related topics across departments.
- Support exploration of emerging data use cases, including ESG metrics and sales-driven data tagging.
- Assist in preparing responses for data-related procurement and bidding processes.
- Resolve intermediate-level data quality problems requiring cross-functional input.
- Provide direct assistance to sales teams through training and customer-facing engagements.
- Support sales operations in resolving data coverage and quality issues on the ICON/URBA business information platform
