Principal IT Data Lead (Cross-Border - Snowflake)

Bpost; Machelen; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal vouchers

Phone plan

Company car

Bike leasing

Public transportation

Flexible working hours

Work from home

Bonus scheme

Extra leave

Job summary

Bpost is seeking a Principal IT Data Lead to define the data strategy for its Cross-Border & Transport business. You will drive end-to-end visibility, governance, and AI-ready data platforms, partnering with senior stakeholders across regions to enable data-driven decisions.

The role focuses on building scalable data foundations, modern analytics, and self-service capabilities to support real-time decision making in a multi-country logistics network.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data, analytics, or data platform leadership within a complex international environment.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the data strategy for Cross-Border & Transport, aligned with business priorities
• Enable a control tower capability providing real-time operational visibility and decision support
• Develop and evolve KPIs, data models, and performance frameworks such as cost-to-serve, SLA tracking, and shipment visibility
• Deliver actionable insights to support strategic and operational decision-making
• Lead the transformation towards a modern, AI-ready data platform such as Snowflake or Databricks
• Ensure data quality, governance, and consistency across countries and systems
• Drive self-service analytics through scalable semantic models and certified datasets such as Power BI
• Shape event-driven data capabilities and support near real-time use cases
• Partner with IT and engineering teams on data architecture, tooling, and roadmap
• Influence and align senior stakeholders across business and technology
• Build and scale data capabilities, products, and ways of working across regions

Skills

Data strategy

Snowflake

Databricks

Power BI

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Cloud platforms

Data modelling

Event-driven

Leadership

Tools

Power BI

Job description

What will you do?

We are looking for a Principal IT Data Lead (Snowflake) to define and drive the data strategy for our global Cross-Border & Transport business. This is a high-impact role focused on enabling end-to-end visibility, performance management, and decision-making across a complex, multi-country logistics network. You will lead the evolution of our data landscape towards a modern, cloud-based ecosystem, while ensuring the business can leverage trusted, scalable, and actionable data through self-service analytics, advanced insights, and AI-driven use cases. This role operates at the intersection of business, data, and technology, with end-to-end responsibility for enabling performance, visibility, and decision-making across the cross-border network. Your role You act as the owner of data strategy and performance insights for the cross-border business. You partner closely with senior stakeholders across operations, finance, commercial, and IT to translate business challenges into data-driven solutions with tangible impact. You combine strategic thinking with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset to build both data foundations and business value.

Key responsibilities

• Define and drive the data strategy for Cross-Border & Transport, aligned with business priorities
• Enable a control tower capability providing real-time operational visibility and decision support
• Develop and evolve KPIs, data models, and performance frameworks such as cost-to-serve, SLA tracking, and shipment visibility
• Deliver actionable insights to support strategic and operational decision-making
• Lead the transformation towards a modern, AI-ready data platform such as Snowflake or Databricks
• Ensure data quality, governance, and consistency across countries and systems
• Drive self-service analytics through scalable semantic models and certified datasets such as Power BI
• Shape event-driven data capabilities and support near real-time use cases
• Partner with IT and engineering teams on data architecture, tooling, and roadmap
• Influence and align senior stakeholders across business and technology
• Build and scale data capabilities, products, and ways of working across regions

Who are you?

Your profile

• 10+ years of experience in data, analytics, or data platform leadership within a complex international environment
• Proven ability to define and execute data strategies with clear business impact
• Strong experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake and/or Databricks and cloud environments such as AWS or Azure
• Solid understanding of data modelling, KPI design, and performance management frameworks
• Experience with self-service analytics and tools such as Power BI
• Exposure to event-driven architectures and streaming data is a strong plus
• Good understanding of data governance, quality, lineage, and security principles
• Experience in logistics, transport, e-commerce, or similarly complex environments is a plus
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to operate at senior leadership level in a multi-country environment
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on, delivery-oriented mindset
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving change across teams

What do we offer?

Like a long-awaited parcel, we want to make you feel welcome and valued.

Our offer includes a competitive monthly salary, that goes without saying.

On top of that, you can count on:

• Meal vouchers of €8 per workingday
• Hospitalization-, group- anddisability insurances
• A phone subscription, including25GB data
• A flexible renumeration plan,which allows you to customize your own benefits.
• A company car, bikeleasing, public transportation, extra days off,... the choice is yours
• Possibility to enter theFederal Mobility plan
• Work/life balance, thanks toflexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
• 20 days of statutory leave and7 additional extralegal days off
• An end-of-year andperformance-based bonus and double holiday pay
• Many benefits from more than 100 bpost-partners #bpost #bnode #LI-BP6