Director, Commercial Data Strategy

Location: East Hanover

East Hanover, New Jersey, United States

Full time

R-178863

** Job Description*
* ** Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?*
* ** Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.*
* As key partner to the respective Business Team, you will support our growth strategies. You will achieve this by converting consumer/shopper knowledge and in-depth market understanding into business implications and recommendations. You will drive growth and business results by embedding people-centric insights and actions into the organization.

** How you will contribute*
* You will:

+ Identify and articulate key consumer, shopper and market issues and opportunities for the assigned Category providing business recommendations.

+ Ensure decisions are made against a background of fundamental Category / consumer / shopper / customer knowledge and insight.

+ Be the consumer advocate in the Category/Brand Team ensuring that the consumer/shopper is at the center of the Category strategies .

+ Support business decision by leveraging insights developed by country and platform teams.

+ Ensure that optimal and creative research solutions (including qualitative, quantitative).

** What you will bring*
* A  desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:

+ Insights gained from progressive industry and / or consulting, with a strong preference for consumer goods background

+ Demonstrated ability to work across cultures, and be effective and influential remotely

+ Working at a strategic level, leveraging consumer knowledge to influence short and long term business decisions. Has practical experience of driving growth in white space opportunities

+ Across a variety of research techniques and applications

+ Experience across a variety of research techniques and applications

** Position Summary*
* Mondelēz International is looking for a Director, Commercial Data Strategy to own and advance the company's commercial data agenda across Sales, Insights & Analytics (I&A), Customer Experience (CX), and adjacent functions. This role is the connective tissue between our commercial data assets, our vendor ecosystem, and the teams that turn data into growth - ensuring we have the right data, from the right sources, governed and activated the right way.

The ideal candidate brings deep fluency in syndicated and panel data (including Nielsen/NielsenIQ), but pairs it with a broader, more modern perspective on the full commercial data landscape - retail media data, brand tracking data, shopper/loyalty data, e-commerce signals, and emerging alternative data sets. They see beyond any single vendor and can architect a fit-for-purpose data strategy that reflects how commercial decisions are actually made today.

** Key Responsibilities*
* ** Commercial Data Strategy & Roadmap*
* + Define and maintain a multi-year commercial data strategy aligned to Sales, I&A, CX, and broader enterprise priorities.

+ Evaluate the commercial data ecosystem end-to-end - syndicated data (Nielsen, Circana, etc.), retailer/shopper data, brand tracking data, and emerging sources - and recommend the optimal portfolio of data assets.

+ Identify gaps, redundancies, and opportunities across the current data landscape; build a clear roadmap to close them.

+ Serve as the internal authority on commercial data - what we have, what we need, and how it connects.

+ Partner with the Digital Services function to build AI-ready data and technology platforms.

** Vendor & Contract Management*
* + Own the commercial data vendor relationship lifecycle: sourcing, negotiation, contracting, RFPs, renewals, and performance management.

+ Manage contracts and commercial terms for key data providers (e.g., NielsenIQ, Circana/IRI, Kantar, retailer data partnerships) to maximize value and minimize risk.

+ Establish and enforce vendor SLAs, data quality standards, and escalation protocols.

+ Act as the central point of accountability for vendor-related issues, including in local/regional markets where data operations are less mature.

+ Serve on the data governance enterprise council, acting as the owner of the key market data domain

** Regional & Local Market Support*
* + Provide hands-on support to regional and local teams when vendor or data issues arise - particularly in markets with less-developed data infrastructure.

+ Troubleshoot data delivery, quality, and access issues in partnership with local I&A and Sales teams.

+ Build lightweight, scalable playbooks so that regional…