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Role: Data and Analytics - Market Activations Lead
Scope: Global
Reports to: Data Strategy Director
Location: Pune, India
You will work for the Global, leading Ice Cream player with €7.9bn Turn Over in 2023. The Magnum Ice Cream Company is operating in a highly attractive category, as we are part of the 1 trillion snacking and refreshment industry, growing consistently at high pace. We have strong brands equities: 5 of top 10 selling brands including Wall's, Magnum, Ben & Jerry's. We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of Ice Cream as a standalone entity.
As The Magnum Ice Cream company we are committed to developing and nurturing talent within our Ice Cream company. You will have ample options for career growth and exploration, allowing you for you to explore roles and opportunities across the new organisation. Your career development will be a priority for us, and we are dedicated to supporting your growth journey within the new company. We hope that you will want to build the new chapter of our Ice Cream history together with us.
ABOUT ICE CREAM: Life Tastes Better With Ice Cream
The Magnum Ice Cream Company is the largest global Ice Cream Company in the world, with over 100 years of experience delivering a diverse range of indulgent, yet responsible, craft food experiences and treats delighting consumers. Committed to innovation, quality, and sustainability we have 35 brands, including 3 one billion Euro brands (Magnum, Wall's, Ben & Jerry's), a strong presence in over 60 countries, generating annual revenue of over $8 billion. All brands are driven to transform moments into memories through indulgent yet responsibly made and marketed products. We have a well-developed strategy to deliver growth and value creation which is clear on where to play and how to win.
Challenges & Opportunities
Data is the critical enabler for our future growth. You will directly address the key challenges and opportunities in our data transformation:
- Modernize a Fragmented Landscape: Help build a unified, state-of-the-art data platform to replace a fragmented mix of legacy systems and non-standardized tools.
- Drive a New Culture: Promote a data-driven mindset by developing solutions on a platform that empowers the business with accessible, reliable, and actionable insights.
- Deliver Tangible Value: Design and implement solutions using our new Data Lakehouse (built on Databricks, dbt, Fivetran) that unlock measurable business value, simplify processes, and enable advanced analytics and AI.
Job Purpose
As The Magnum Ice Cream Company becomes operationally independent from Unilever, it is imperative we execute the data and analytics strategy to ensure our business is equipped with necessary analytical solutions for their daily decision making. As a Market activations lead for your market, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the strategy for analytical products. Your scope spans design and delivery of critical D&A products that enable sales effectiveness, revenue growth, and customer insights for TMICC. You will also guide the business through transformation while ensuring operational continuity during execution of the program.
Key Responsibilities
As Market Actions lead for your geography, you will:
- Serve as the primary technology partner to commercial, supply chain, market operations, and brand teams, ensuring data initiatives directly support business priorities such as market share growth, service levels, cost efficiencies, and route‑to‑market excellence.
- Collaborate with business leaders to shape multi‑year digital and data roadmaps aligned to category, brand, and regional growth strategies.
- Translate FMCG business challenges—such as demand volatility, distributor performance, promotion effectiveness, and inventory optimization—into actionable data-driven solutions.
- Partner with data engineering, governance, and analytics teams to build scalable solutions supporting core FMCG processes: demand forecasting, S&OP, trade promotion analytics, supply chain visibility, pricing and assortment analytics, shopper insights, and route‑to‑market effectiveness.
- Enable adoption of enterprise data platforms and self-service tools across commercial teams, factories, and distribution networks.
- Work closely with Data engineering teams to ensure data models reflect FMCG realities (SKU proliferation, channel variations, promotions, seasonality, and complex supply chains).
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing clarity on delivery timelines, dependencies, and value outcomes.
- Manage alignment across multiple business units, markets, categories, and global/regional data teams—balancing speed with feasibility.
- Navigate competing priorities in fast‑paced, high-volume environments while maintaining strong business trust.
- Ensure solutions are scalable across markets, categories, and distributors.
- Drive adoption of new dashboards, forecasting tools, DMS upgrades, AI-enabled solutions, and digital ways of working.
- Lead communication, training, and capability-building initiatives tailored to markets.
- Promote data literacy to support agile, insight-driven decision-making across the organization.
What You Need To Succeed
We are looking for a strategic thinker with a passion for hands-on innovation. You are an effective communicator who thrives on solving complex problems.
Key Skills
This role demands a blend of analytical and functional skills along with good stakeholder management. An ideal candidate will have:
- 6–8+ years in IT business partnering, commercial analytics, data strategy, digital transformation, or related domains.
- Experience in FMCG, consumer products, retail, or other fast-paced sectors is highly preferred.
- Proven ability to influence senior commercial, supply chain, and finance stakeholders.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills tailored for high-speed FMCG decision cycles.
- Experience running cross-functional delivery teams and managing complex requirement landscapes.
- Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and vice versa.
Leadership
- PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
- PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
- CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
- BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.
ARE YOU EXCITED TO CRAFT THE ICE CREAM FUTURE?
TMICC embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume and cover letter detailing their relevant experience and qualifications to TMICC’s career portal.
We take pleasure seriously. Join the Ice Cream team now!
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About The Magnum Ice Cream Company
With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.
About
The Magnum Ice Cream Company (formerly part of Unilever) is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers’ businesses. Growing our people’s careers. Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments – and having fun doing it. Here’s what defines success in our organization :
- We are all about growth
- We operate with speed and simplicity
- We win together with fun
- We boldly innovate to disrupt our industry
- We care and challenge
- We are experts in the Ice Cream Category
ARE YOU EXCITED TO CRAFT THE ICE CREAM FUTURE?
Please apply online and do not forget to upload your CV. Your application will be reviewed against the requirements, and we will be in touch shortly after the closing date, with an update on the status of your application.
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