Global Data Excellence Manager

Danone; Hoofddorp; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Yearly bonus

Pension (premium free)

Health insurance discounts

30 days annual leave

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Danone seeks a Global Data Excellence Manager based in Amsterdam to drive governance and data products for digital marketing data across the globe. You will translate business needs into scalable data solutions and foster a strong data culture.

You'll collaborate with marketing, data, digital and technology teams, manage data quality and privacy, and empower analysts and business users with reliable data to accelerate growth.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of experience in marketing, digital, media, analytics, or data management roles within global organizations.
• Experience with data governance, data quality management, or data stewardship.
• Strong knowledge of marketing data ecosystems including digital media, eCommerce, CRM, search, social, campaign performance, and web analytics.
• Hands-on experience with data and analytics tools, including SQL and/or Python.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and stakeholders independently.
• Experience working with or managing external partners such as media agencies, technology vendors, or consulting firms.
• Understanding of emerging digital trends, such as generative search, retail search, and evolving marketing measurement approaches.
• Experience developing frameworks, training programs, and scalable ways of working.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders across business and technical teams.
• Collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Drive Data Excellence by gathering requirements and translating them into scalable data solutions.
• Lead Data Governance across the Marketing Data Domain and oversee data assets lifecycle.
• Enable Data-Driven Decision Making by powering analytics products with accurate data.
• Build Capability and Community through playbooks, trainings, and global knowledge sharing.

Skills

Data governance

Stakeholder management

SQL

Python

Data quality management

Marketing data ecosystems

Project management

External partnerships

Job description

About the job

Are you passionate about turning complex digital marketing data into trusted, scalable solutions that empower teams across the globe?

Join Danone as our Global Data Excellence Manager and play a key role in building the foundation for strong digital data governance within data-driven marketing. You will help create and govern best-in-class data products, ensuring analysts, marketers, and business teams have access to reliable, accessible, and actionable digital data.

In this role, you'll be at the intersection of marketing, data, digital, and technology, working with global stakeholders to deliver trusted data solutions that improve decision-making and accelerate business impact.

This role is based in Danone Place Amsterdam, the global headquarters of our Specialized Nutrition business.

As Global Data Excellence Manager, you will support the Marketing Data Domain by ensuring the quality, governance, accessibility, and adoption of digital marketing data products, including areas such as D2C, CRM, website, search, campaign, platform, and HCP-related data. You will help translate business needs into scalable data solutions while fostering a strong data culture across Danone.

Ultimately, your work will enable analysts and business teams worldwide to spend less time preparing data and more time generating insights that drive growth.

What You'll Do

Drive Data Excellence

• Partner with business teams to gather requirements and translate them into scalable data solutions.
• Support the development of trusted, reusable marketing data products that serve global and local teams.
• Ensure data products meet business needs while balancing quality, scalability, and governance requirements.

Lead Data Governance

• Manage day-to-day governance activities across the Marketing Data Domain.
• Oversee the lifecycle of key data assets and maintain high-quality business metadata.
• Define and monitor data quality standards, coordinate issue resolution, and drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliant handling and classification of data in line with privacy regulations and enterprise policies.
• Support data access management and governance processes.

Enable Data-Driven Decision Making

• Ensure marketing analytics products and tools are powered by accurate and reliable data.
• Improve the quality and consistency of marketing, digital, media, CRM, and eCommerce data.
• Help teams across markets unlock greater value from data and analytics.

Build Capability and Community

• Foster adoption of data governance best practices across the organization.
• Develop playbooks, training materials, and enablement programs.
• Build and nurture a global community of analysts and data users, sharing knowledge and best practices.
• Act as an ambassador for data excellence across Danone.

About you

We're looking for someone who combines strong data expertise with stakeholder management and a passion for enabling business impact.

You bring:

• 8-12 years of experience in marketing, digital, media, analytics, or data management roles within global organizations.
• Experience with data governance, data quality management, or data stewardship.
• Strong knowledge of marketing data ecosystems, including digital media, eCommerce, CRM, search, social, campaign performance, and web analytics.
• Hands-on experience working with data and analytics tools, including SQL and/or Python.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and stakeholders independently.
• Experience working with or managing external partners such as media agencies, technology vendors, or consulting firms.
• Understanding of emerging digital trends, including generative search, retail search, and evolving marketing measurement approaches.
• Experience developing frameworks, training programs, and scalable ways of working.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders across business and technical teams.
• A collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented mindset.

About Danone

Working at Danone is a unique experience. It’s fast-paced and complex and, at times, it can get a little challenging. But it’s packed with opportunities to learn and grow working with some of the best-known brands in the world, like Evian, Alpro, Nutricia, Activia and Nutrilon. Bring your unique perspective, ambitions and entrepreneurial ideas to the table – the impact you could make might just surprise you.

We’re proud to be a B-Corp certified company. That means we meet the highest verified standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability in everything we do.

We Offer

It’s an exciting time to join Danone! And the best part? You’ll be supported to grow an impactful career that you can be proud of. Together, we’ll build a healthier world.

• All Danoners receive a complete package of benefits.
• This includes a competitive salary and yearly bonus,
• a premium free pension and great discounts on health insurance and Danone products.
• We understand the importance of flexibility and offer 30 days of annual leave (with the opportunity to purchase more) and a hybrid working environment, where you can work either from home or from one of our People Hubs in Hoofddorp, Utrecht and Rijswijk.