Associate Director, Forecasting Data

Associate Director, Forecasting Data Role Overview

The Data Leader – Forecasting will be responsible for building and governing high-quality, AI-ready data foundations to enable forecasting s role will drive the creation of certified data products and ensure data reliability, consistency, and accessibility across the enterprise.

• Define the data strategy for forecasting (demand, supply, inventory, pricing, external signals)
• Design scalable data architecture on cloud platforms (e.g., GCP lakehouse)
• Standardize data models and semantic layers across regions

• Build and own certified data products (forecast inputs, demand signals, master data)
• Define SLAs, quality metrics, and certification standards
• Enable self-service consumption for AI models and business users

• Establish governance frameworks (ownership, lineage, cataloging, access control)
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and completeness across multiple ERPs
• Drive data readiness for AI use cases

• Lead data ingestion and integration from internal systems and external sources
• Collaborate with platform teams on pipelines, transformations, and storage
• Ensure scalability and performance of data pipelines

• Partner with AI teams, business stakeholders, and IT teams
• Act as the bridge between business data needs and technical implementation
• Drive data literacy and adoption across teams

• 10–15 years in data engineering, data architecture, or data platforms
• Strong experience with cloud data platforms (GCP, Snowflake, Databricks)
• Expertise in data modeling, ETL/ELT, and data governance
• Experience working in multi-ERP, complex enterprise environments
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

• Number of certified data products created
• Data quality scores (accuracy, completeness, timeliness)
• Time to enable new AI use cases
• Reduction in data-related issues/escalations

Pay Range: CHF - CHF