Senior Data & Tech Partner — Category & Customer Marketing

Royal Canin USA Inc; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 119,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Job summary

Royal Canin USA Inc. seeks a Senior Manager, Data & Technology Business Partner to bridge regional commercial operations with Data & Technology teams. You will co-create a technology roadmap with Category Leadership, Customer Marketing, Sales Strategy, and Analytics to drive retail growth and shopper activation.

You will champion advanced analytics, AI, and modern platforms to optimize planogram, assortment, and campaign effectiveness, ensuring data quality and broad adoption across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 7+ years in Technology Business Partnership or related fields.
• Strong understanding of Category Management, Customer Marketing and Retail Analytics.
• Ability to translate complex priorities into practical technology/data roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Data & Technology liaison for Category Management and Customer Marketing.
• Enable category management with tools for assortment analysis and space/shelf optimization.
• Partner with Customer Marketing to implement campaigns and data-driven investment measures.
• Manage demand intake, build business cases, coordinate with Product Owners and Agile teams.
• Champion self-service reporting and future AI/predictive analytics use cases.
• Lead cross-functional alignment and change management to ensure ROI and adoption.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Category management

Customer marketing

Data analytics

MarTech & CDP

Syndicated data platforms

Strategy translation

Cross-functional collaboration

AI/ML awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Marketing/IT/Data Analytics

Tools

Circana (IRI)

Nielsen

Numerator

Job description

Royal Canin USA Inc. seeks a Senior Manager, Data & Technology Business Partner to bridge regional commercial operations with Data & Technology teams. You will co-create a technology roadmap with Category Leadership, Customer Marketing, Sales Strategy, and Analytics to drive retail growth and shopper activation.

You will champion advanced analytics, AI, and modern platforms to optimize planogram, assortment, and campaign effectiveness, ensuring data quality and broad adoption across teams.