Head Of Business Data

Marioff; Vantaa; Presencial; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive compensation

Bonus system

An important and highly impactful role

Descripción de la vacante

Marioff Corporation, based in Vantaa, Finland, seeks a Head of Business Data to lead data-driven performance management and the business data roadmap. You will drive insight-led decisions and create a single source of truth for key metrics across functions.

Reporting to the Director, Operations & PMO, with dotted-line to the CFO, you will establish a scalable data foundation and governance, enabling analytics to boost growth and profitability.

Formación

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field.
• 7+ years in business data, analytics or BI roles.
• Proven data strategy development and execution.
• Experience leading cross-functional transformations with IT.
• Strong communication and problem‑solving skills.

Responsabilidades

• Own data strategy and roadmap aligned with Value Creation Plan.
• Define data requirements and govern enterprise KPI framework.
• Build scalable data foundation and governance for accuracy.
• Partner with leadership to implement data-driven performance management.

Conocimientos

SQL skills

Python

Stakeholder mgmt

Data modelling

analytics mindset

Educación

Bachelor's or Master's in a relevant field

Herramientas

Microsoft Fabric

Snowflake

dbt

Descripción del empleo

Role: Head of Business Data

Location: Vantaa, Finland

Contract type: full-time, permanent contract

About Marioff

For four decades, Marioff has been driven by the challenge of keeping people and businesses safe. Today, we are the global leader in high-pressure water mist fire protection with our HI-FOG system, setting new standards and pushing the fire protection industry forward. Rooted in Nordic innovation and delivering globally, Marioff is home to those who approach challenges with an innovative mindset, persistence, and an unwavering commitment to quality. We believe that delivering peace of mind and reliability to our customers requires empowering diverse teams to collaborate towards common success, creating a lasting impact.

At Marioff, more than 500 motivated professionals work across the globe. As a truly global company, we value the diversity of roles and skills within our team, with colleagues from nearly 30 nationalities collaborating towards a common goal.

With our head office in Vantaa and our factory in Kerava, Finland, we have a global reach with subsidiaries in France, Germany, Italy, North America, Spain, Sweden, Poland, the United Kingdom, and China.

About the position

The Head of Business Data is responsible for building and leading Marioff's data-driven performance management capability as part of the company's Value Creation Plan. The role owns the business data roadmap, drives insight-led decision making, and ensures that data is translated into measurable business actions and outcomes.

Working across Sales, Service, Operations, Finance, FP&A, Global Process Owners and IT, the role establishes a scalable data foundation, develops performance management capabilities, and creates a single source of truth for key business metrics. The role has a strong commercial focus and is expected to drive growth and profitability through data-driven insights and performance management. The role serves as the bridge between business stakeholders, IT, and external partners, ensuring that data models, reporting, analytics, and governance support Marioff's strategic objectives.

The Head of Business Data is responsible for building and developing Marioff's future business data and analytics capabilities. The role defines how data is captured, modeled, governed, and utilized across the company.

Reports directly to the Director, Operations & PMO, with a strong dotted-line relationship to the CFO.

Key Responsibilities

1. Ownership of Data Strategy and Roadmap

• Building and executing Marioff's Business Data Roadmap aligned with the Value Creation Plan and business strategy.
• Define data and analytics priorities that support growth, operational excellence, and value creation.
• Develop business cases and investment proposals for data and analytics initiatives with measurable business outcomes
• Contribute to the company's data platform, architecture, and technology strategy.

2. Data Foundation and Analytics

• Define business data requirements and guide what data should be captured across business processes and systems.
• Responsible for business-side data modelling activities in collaboration with IT and external partners while IT team is responsible for data ingestion.
• Support development of the enterprise data architecture and single-source-of-truth reporting environment while maintaining the ability to contribute hands‑on when required
• Evaluate and promote AI-enabled analytics and decision-support capabilities

3. Data Governance and Data Quality

• Establish and maintain data governance frameworks and transparency across Marioff business data
• Establish and drive business data ownership, accountability and responsibilities across businesses
• Own the enterprise KPI framework and ensure consistent measurement across all business functions
• Ensure consistent and reliable data across systems, processes, and business functions.

4. Performance Management and Business Insights

• Partner closely with Sales, Service, Operations, Finance, FP&A, and IT leadership to establish effective performance management practices to drive data-driven decision making
• Establish a scalable operating model consisting of a central data hub and business-facing analytics/reporting capabilities embedded within functions.
• Define and maintain company-wide management reporting, and business performance dashboards.
• Enable Global Process Owners with process performance metrics, compliance reporting, and process analytics.
• Drive commercial and operational performance through pricing, sales, service and customer analytics.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Analytics, Data Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in business data, analytics, business intelligence, data transformation, performance management, or related roles.
• Proven experience developing and implementing data strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Experience leading cross-functional transformation initiatives involving business, IT, and external partners.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Hands‑on understanding of modern data platforms and analytics ecosystems.
• Strong SQL skills and working knowledge of Python.
• Experience working with cloud-based data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with modern data transformation and ingestion tools such as dbt, Fivetran, or similar platforms.

Desirable

• Experience building or leading data and analytics teams.
• Experience with AI-enabled analytics and reporting solutions.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial technology, fire protection, engineering, service business, or similarly complex global organizations.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Platform, Snowflake, Streamlit, Claude Code, or similar modern data technologies.
• Understanding of data privacy and information security requirements in an international business environment.

Benefits

We are committed to offering competitive benefits programs for all of our employees, and enhancing our programs when necessary.

• Competitive compensation
• Bonus system
• An important and highly impactful role in a professional organization

Our commitment to you

We offer you a dynamic and international work environment in a company with high technology products, a strong growth strategy and people who are passionate about fire safety. At Marioff we value diversity in all its forms and we believe that it is our excellent, highly skilled people who make success, competitive excellence and innovation happen. Join us to our mission to protect people, property and business continuity!