Commercial Strategy & Business Development - B

Description

ECS is a newly established multi-country, multi-brand, omnichannel coffee player within the Lavazza Group. In the context of an ongoing business and digital transformation, we are looking for a Business Data Specialist to act as a key bridge between Business and IT, ensuring data consistency, governance, and value creation across the organization. This role plays a strategic and enabling position in the Group’s Data & AI journey. The Business Data Specialist is Accountable for the Data & AI Strategy & Governance program and for driving the related organizational transformation, ensuring that data becomes a true decision-making asset across all functions and markets. The role requires a strong mix of business acumen, data literacy, stakeholder management, and transformation leadership, operating in a complex, international, and evolving environment.

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📊 Your day-to-day activities

• Business–IT/Data Bridge: Translate business needs into data and AI requirements; guide teams on data usage and availability.
• Strategy & Governance: Define and lead the Data & AI strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and a shared data structure across the organization.
• Roadmap Execution: Design and implement the roadmap for Data & AI initiatives, ensuring coordination with IT and key stakeholders.
• Change Leadership: Promote a Data & AI–driven culture and cross-functional collaboration to drive adoption and impact.
• Data processes: Drive design of key processes underlying data management for the organization.
• Value & Performance Tracking: Identify high-value use cases and monitor results and adoption through key performance indicators.

💡 Relevant skills & competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• Proven experience in business-facing data, analytics, or transformation roles within FMCG, Retail, eCommerce, or complex international organizations.
• 3/5 years of experience in similar roles or in complex, matrix-based environments.
• Strong understanding of data governance, analytics concepts, and AI applications (hands-on technical development not required).
• Strong business mindset combined with solid data literacy and direct experience in master data management.
• Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including with senior leadership.
• Strong problem-solving and structuring capabilities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving organization.
• Proactive, pragmatic, and outcome-oriented.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving change.
• A collaborative attitude and positive energy
• Advanced professional English knowledge; Italian, French and German are a plus
• Availability to travel (within Europe, 1-2 times per month when needed)

✨ In Return We Offer

• Comprehensive welfare package including short working week during summer months
• Hybrid working policy (10 days a month remote working)
• Company restaurant service
• Access to our corporate gym
• A fast paced and dynamic international context
  
  

💬 What next?

Our Talent Acquisition Team will assess your application and if you have what we’re looking for, you'll be contacted for an initial interview

If you make it to the short list, you’ll be interviewed by the Hiring Manager and if necessary, other members of the hiring panel

In some cases, you may be required to show us your skills via technical challenge.

☕ Who We Are
Our Group was founded in Turin in 1895, has been owned by the Lavazza family for four generations. As one of the world’s most important coffee roasters, we operate in more than 140 countries through our brands, subsidiaries and distributors, with a total of over 5,500 employees.

Every day we operate in all sectors of the coffee industry, offering our products through every channel and positioning our brands as a high-quality blend.

We are a community of single origins united into a perfect blend, humans enriching one another through our mutual diversity.

Awakening a better world every morning: the commitment we make every single day.

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