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# Global Media Data Foundation Manager

- **Company:** Nestlé
- **Location:** Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adaptable Database Systems, Data Dictionary, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Marketing Information Systems, Conversion Tracking, DataOps, Data Streaming, Data Management
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a219706f5a55ce7b

## About the Role

* Strong experience in media, marketing data, analytics, or data governance, ideally within a global or complex matrix organization.
 * Deep understanding of the media supply chain, including planning, activation, taxonomy, tracking, measurement, and reporting processes.
 * Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and external partners in complex environments.
 * Strong people leadership skills, with experience building and developing high-performing teams. Analytical, structured, and detail-oriented, with the ability to connect operational detail to strategic business outcomes.
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 * Knowledge in the following Nestlé's areas:
 + Nestlé Blueprints
 - Nestlé Strategic Roadmap- Nestlé Integrated Commercial Planning Process
 + Nestlé Management and Leadership Principles
 + Category GBS & MBS

## Description

* Build and evolve the media data foundation roadmap, including governance, taxonomy, identifiers, data quality standards, and interoperability across systems and partners.
 * Identify gaps, risks, and transformation opportunities in the media data ecosystem, and translate them into clear strategic priorities and implementation plans.
 * Ensure media data capabilities support critical business use cases such as campaign tracking, performance measurement, ROI analysis, optimization, and cross-channel reporting.
 * Define and upgrade data dictionary including new KPIs with new sources of data as well as use cases. Maintain and upgrade taxonomies for specific category data sources.
 * Collaborate with IT to create roadmaps for automation and AI, define needed tooling for data governance, and identify opportunities to improve data management processes
 * Identify and support implementation of scalable strategic data management technologies to run marketing/media data foundations at scale.
 * Oversee the day-to-day management of media data operations across the full supply chain, from planning and trafficking inputs to ingestion, validation, enrichment, reporting, and issue resolution.
 * Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of operational workflows, controls, and documentation to ensure scalability, consistency, and transparency.
 * Coordinate with agencies, vendors, and technology partners to ensure accurate and timely delivery of required media data inputs.
 * Support IT to automate new data flow with new sources of data, including complex databases
 * Influence adoption of media data standards and processes across markets and partners, balancing global consistency with local business needs.
 * Escalate and resolve key risks, trade-offs, and decisions in a structured and business-oriented manner.
 * Engage regularly with senior functional stakeholders to align priorities, discuss
 * Lead, develop, and mentor the team responsible for media data foundation and operations, creating a high-performance and collaborative environment.
 * Set clear objectives, priorities, and ways of working for the team, ensuring strong execution against strategic and operational goals.
 * Allocate resources effectively across priorities, projects, and business-as-usual operations.