Senior Director, Data, Tech, & Capabilities - Marketing and Customer & Commercial Leadership, Eurasia & Middle East Operating Unit

EME OU (Eurasia Middle East Operating Unit) Marketing is undergoing a step-change to deliver more balanced, sustainable growth, powered by deeper consumer intimacy, stronger integration, accelerated innovation, and data- and tech-enabled precision marketing. The organization is designed to combine local relevance with scale, shift data and technology from experimentation to competitive advantage, and operate through flywheel execution with clear accountability for impact and ROI (Return on Investment). All roles operate within a tightly integrated OU-Market model, where the OU elevates and enables long-term growth + OU-wide platforms while markets integrate, execute, and track performance with speed and rigor while developing local content, partnership and experiences.

Focus, Scope, & Impact:

Upskill marketing community & outcomes through DATA, capabilities, and tech-augmented solutions. Architect a future-ready, data-heavy, AI-powered MarTech ecosystem to accelerate capabilities, creativity, innovation and deliver measurable impact at scale.

• Own data strategy, orchestration &governance - create the OU (Operating Unit) 'Brain'
• Architect a data-heavy, AI-powered MarTech ecosystem
• Marketing and Commercial Digital products/platforms ownership and roadmaps.
• Build and scale marketing capabilities especially acting as COE (center of excellence) for Data & AI literacy
• Lead OU orchestration and backlog management, including workflow, marketing operations, and planning
• Enable and activate the network to embed tech-augmented ways of working.
• Lead a team of 4 talents
• What Success Looks Like: Data and AI directly improve decision quality and ROI; Tools are adopted, not resisted; Capability gaps visibly close across markets; Marketing operates faster and with more precision;

• Significant marketing and leadership experience (12 years+), with great focus in tech/data
• Acumen across relevant marketing disciplines: innovation, creative strategy, connections, design, category/brand positioning & growth strategy
• Led scaled, complex, cross-functional and cross-geographical teams and projects
• Led projects and capabilities that leverage Digital/ Data/ AI as edges
• Led and developed teams directly and external partners (agencies)
• Behaviors: Growth Mindset: someone that is curious, dreams big, does what is hard and has an enterprise mindset. Passionate and uncompromisable commitment to excellence and servant leadership.