Associate Director, Data & Analytics Lead

JOB SUMMARY

The Associate Director Data & Analytics Lead is a senior regional leadership role responsible for defining and driving the data analytics business intelligence and AI agenda across the APACMEA region with China as a major strategic focus market.

This role will act as the strategic bridge between business leadership BTS regional/global data teams vendors and functional stakeholders to turn enterprise data and AI capabilities into measurable business value scalable products and trusted insights.

In addition to strong technical depth across data analytics AI/ML GenAI BI data platforms governance and lifecycle management the role requires a strong people leader and strategic thinker who can shape the APACMEA data and AI roadmap translate regional priorities into market-relevant execution lead cross-functional delivery supervise and develop team members supports commercial growth operational excellence and innovation.

Major Responsibilities

• Set APACMEA data and AI strategy: Define and continuously evolve the APACMEA data analytics BI and AI roadmap ensuring alignment with regional business priorities and global BTS technology strategy.
• Drive AI and GenAI adoption responsibly: Lead the identification evaluation prototyping scaling and governance of AI/ML and GenAI use cases ensuring business relevance measurable ROI responsible AI practices and compliance with enterprise standards.
• Own BI and analytics transformation: Advance reporting modernization KPI standardization self-service analytics dashboard adoption and insight generation to enable faster and more trusted business decision-making through close working with related business stakeholders like IMCO Business Excellence AMIetc
• Build data foundations compliance with global governance and local regulatory requirement: Strengthen data architecture master data management data quality and lifecycle management to support scalable analytics AI outcomes in line with company policies and applicable regional and local regulatory requirements including China-specific considerations such as PIPL CSL DSL cybersecurity privacy and data localization.
• Lead people and capability development: Supervise coach and develop team members; build clear priorities capability plans and succession readiness for the APACMEA data function while strengthening China-focused execution capability.
• Champion data-driven culture: Promote data literacy AI literacy adoption of modern analytics tools and AI/data-driven culture in company.

Supervisory Responsibility

Reports to China BTS Lead with dotted-line alignment to the International Data & Analytics lead. The role is expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy and provide leadership across APACMEA markets China business BTS regional global and vendor teams.

Supervises at least one FTE and may lead cross-functional project teams matrix resources vendors and data/AI communities of practice across APACMEA with strong hands-on focus on China-related priorities. Accountable for team performance capability development coaching prioritization and delivery quality.

Qualifications :

• Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree required in Computer Science Data Science Information Technology Statistics Business Analytics Engineering or a related field; masters degree or MBA preferred.
• 10 years of progressive experience in data analytics BI digital technology product management or AI-related roles with at least 3 years in leadership people management or large-scale matrix leadership.
• Proven track record of defining and delivering enterprise data BI analytics AI/ML or GenAI initiatives that generate measurable business outcomes.
• Experience working across APACMEA or other multi-market regional environments preferred with strong understanding of China market context local data compliance business dynamics stakeholder expectations and regulatory considerations.
• Experience in healthcare pharmaceutical medical aesthetics consumer health retail financial services or other data-intensive regulated industries preferred.
• Professional certifications in data governance cloud analytics AI agile/product management privacy or project/program management are advantageous.

Knowledge and Skills

• Leadership and strategic thinking: Ability to set vision shape strategy influence senior stakeholders make trade-off decisions and lead teams through ambiguity and transformation.
• Business acumen: Strong understanding of commercial priorities customer engagement sales/marketing analytics operational performance and how data and AI create measurable business value.
• Data and analytics expertise: Deep knowledge of data modeling data engineering concepts analytics design KPI frameworks self-service BI visualization advanced analytics and data product lifecycle management.
• AI and GenAI fluency: Working knowledge of AI/ML concepts GenAI use cases model evaluation prompt-enabled solutions responsible AI MLOps/AI operations automation and human-in-the-loop adoption patterns.
• Technology platforms: Familiarity with modern data platforms cloud data services BI tools CRM/commercial data ecosystems APIs data integration patterns and analytics enablement technologies.
• Language: Fluent English required for regional and global collaboration; Mandarin Chinese highly preferred given the roles strong China focus and stakeholder engagement needs.

Additional Information :

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Employment Type :

Full-time