Principal IT Data Lead (Global Cross-Border & Transport)

We are looking for a Principal IT Data Lead to define and drive the data strategy for our global Cross-Border & Transport business. This is a high-impact role focused on enabling end-to-end visibility, performance management, and decision-making across a complex, multi-country logistics network.

You will lead the evolution of our data landscape towards a modern, cloud-based ecosystem, while ensuring the business can leverage trusted, scalable, and actionable data through self-service analytics, advanced insights, and AI-driven use cases.

This role operates at the intersection of business, data, and technology, with end-to-end responsibility for enabling performance, visibility, and decision-making across the cross-border network. Your role

You act as the owner of data strategy and performance insights for the cross-border business.

You partner closely with senior stakeholders across operations, finance, commercial, and IT to translate business challenges into data-driven solutions with tangible impact.

You combine strategic thinking with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset to build both data foundations and business value., * Define and drive the data strategy for Cross-Border & Transport, aligned with business priorities

• Enable a control tower capability providing real-time operational visibility and decision support
• Develop and evolve KPIs, data models, and performance frameworks such as cost-to-serve, SLA tracking, and shipment visibility
• Deliver actionable insights to support strategic and operational decision-making
• Lead the transformation towards a modern, AI-ready data platform such as Snowflake or Databricks
• Ensure data quality, governance, and consistency across countries and systems
• Drive self-service analytics through scalable semantic models and certified datasets such as Power BI
• Shape event-driven data capabilities and support near real-time use cases
• Partner with IT and engineering teams on data architecture, tooling, and roadmap
• Influence and align senior stakeholders across business and technology
• Build and scale data capabilities, products, and ways of working across regions Who are you? Your profile

• 10+ years of experience in data, analytics, or data platform leadership within a complex international environment
• Proven ability to define and execute data strategies with clear business impact
• Strong experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake or Databricks and cloud environments such as AWS or Azure
• Solid understanding of data modelling, KPI design, and performance management frameworks
• Experience with self-service analytics and tools such as Power BI
• Exposure to event-driven architectures and streaming data is a strong plus
• Good understanding of data governance, quality, lineage, and security principles

• Experience in logistics, transport, e-commerce, or similarly complex environments is a plus

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to operate at senior leadership level in a multi-country environment
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on, delivery-oriented mindset
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving change across teams What do we offer?

Like a long-awaited parcel, we want to make you feel welcome and valued. Our offer includes a competitive monthly salary, that goes without saying. On top of that, you can count on:

• Meal vouchers of €8 per working day
• Hospitalization-, group- and disability insurances
• A phone subscription, including 25GB data
• A flexible renumeration plan, which allows you to customize your own benefits. A company car, bike leasing, public transportation, extra days off,… the choice is yours
• Possibility to enter the Federal Mobility plan
• Work/life balance, thanks to flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
• 20 days of statutory leave and 7 additional extralegal days off
• An end-of-year and performance-based bonus and double holiday pay
• Many benefits from more than 100 bpost-partners