Diageo

Data Lead Consumer

Bangalore, India Full time

Job Description :

Job Title-

Data Lead Consumer

About the Function-

Our Digital and Technology (D&T) team are innovators, delivering ground-breaking solutions that will help shape the future of our iconic brands. Technology touches every part of our business, from the sourcing of sustainable ingredients to marketing and development of our online platforms. We utilise data insights to build competitive advantage, supporting our people to deliver value faster.

Our D&T team includes some of the most talented digital professionals in the industry. Every day, we come together to push boundaries and innovate, shaping the digital solutions of tomorrow. Whatever your passion, we’ll help you become the best you can be, creating career-defining work and delivering breakthrough thinking.

About the team-

The Data Lead is a senior leadership role responsible for defining the domain data strategy and driving the end-to-end delivery of high-quality, trusted data products across Consumer and Customer data domains. The role combines strategic data leadership with hands-on delivery accountability, ensuring data assets are scalable, reusable, well-governed, and aligned to enterprise standards.

This role operates in a complex, global, matrixed environment and requires strong multi-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Digital, Marketing, Commercial, and Market teams. The Data Lead acts as the bridge between business outcomes and data delivery, ensuring that data initiatives translate into measurable value, insight, and decision-making enablement.

Role Responsibilities-

  • Set and execute the Consumer domain data strategy, defining clear roadmaps and priorities that align enterprise data ambitions with Consumer and Customer business outcomes.
  • Support end-to-end delivery of Consumer data products, accountable for value, quality, and timeliness, while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, standards, and platforms.
  • Partner cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Business teams to translate business needs into scalable, reusable data assets that support insight, personalisation, and growth.
  • Embed strong data governance, ownership, quality, and compliance, ensuring Consumer data is trusted, well-managed, and fit for advanced analytics, AI, and regulatory requirements.
  • Drive agile, efficient ways of working, actively handling risks, dependencies, and delivery performance to balance short-term delivery with long-term transformation.
  • Build trusted stakeholder relationships and lead data culture change, championing data-driven decision-making, accountability, and high-performing teams across global markets.

Experience / skills required

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field (Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Information Systems, or similar).
  • 7–10+ years’ experience in senior data, delivery, or data product leadership roles within large, matrixed organisations.
  • Demonstrable experience leading data strategy and delivery for Customer and/or Consumer domains.
  • Good understanding of data management concepts including data architecture, governance, quality, integration, and analytics.
  • Demonstrated experience with agile delivery methodologies and tools (e.g., ADO, Jira, Confluence).
  • Excellent partnership management, communication, and influencing skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience working with modern, cloud-based data platforms (e.g., Azure, Databricks) and BI tools (e.g., Power BI).

Nice to Have

  • Experience within FMCG / CPG or consumer-centric industries.
  • Certifications in data management, governance, or analytics (e.g., CDMP, DAMA).
  • Previous hands-on experience in data engineering, analytics, or Python.
  • Experience operating across markets with varying data maturity and regulatory environments.
  • Delivery of high-quality, standardised, and reusable Consumer domain data assets.
  • Increased trust, ownership, and usability of Customer and Consumer data across the organisation.
  • Strong alignment between business priorities and data delivery outcomes.
  • Effective contribution to a scalable, AI-ready enterprise data foundation.

Flexible Working Statement-

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re

supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Diversity statement-

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And crafting an inclusive culture, where

everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be encouraged and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion and inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual, orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, and more.

Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products, companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next

level and build new ones as part of crafting the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you gather this information when you submit your application.

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Bangalore Karle Town SEZ

Additional Locations :

Budapest

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-04-23