Data Product Manager - Commercial

Job Description :

Job Title: Data Product Manager - Commercial

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 dedicated 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 Diageo:

Diageo is a global leader in premium drinks, with an outstanding collection of brands across spirits, beer, and wine categories. Our portfolio includes iconic brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Guinness, Captain Morgan, and Tanqueray, among many others. We are dedicated to celebrating life every day, everywhere, through our exceptional products, innovation, and commitment to responsible drinking. With a rich heritage and a passion for craftsmanship and quality, Diageo continues to inspire and delight consumers around the world.

Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products company in the world. Being part of the Digital and Technology (D&T) team, you’ll contribute to our vision and strategy, which is to create competitive advantage for Diageo, delivering insights and solutions with flawless quality and speed of execution.

About the Role:

The Data Product Manager is a pivotal role responsible for driving the strategy, development, and launch of data-driven products. This individual will demonstrate their deep understanding of data and product management to bridge the gap between business needs and technical capabilities. We seek a highly analytical and collaborative leader to define, build, and scale data products that deliver significant business value.

Responsibilities:

• Product Strategy and Vision: develop and exe cute a clear product vision and strategy aligned with overall business objectives. Conduct thorough market research to see opportunities, customer needs, and competitive landscapes.

·       Voice of the customer: understands, shape and address the different functions/regions needs, ensuring the business needs are well understood across D&T and within the data product working group.

• Product Roadmap and Delivery: create and prioritize a product roadmap based on business value, customer feedback, and data-driven insights. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget.
• Value Creation and Measurement: define, measure, and optimize the value delivered by data products. Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and track product performance to inform continuous improvement.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: build strong partnerships with data science, engineering, and business teams to ensure alignment and efficient product development.
• Data Governance and Quality: champion data governance initiatives, ensuring data quality, security, and compliance with relevant regulations. Work closely with central governance team on co-designing and implementing internal data policies.
• Product Launch and Scaling: develop and execute go-live strategies to successfully launch data products. Drive product adoption and scalability across the organization.
• Data Literacy and Culture: promote data-driven decision making and foster a data-centric culture. Responsible for creating and maintenance of relevant documented within expected remit.
• Team Leadership: provide leadership and mentorship to agile teams, driving innovation and high performance.

Technical Skills

• Data Analytics: validated expertise on data analysis and manipulation. The ability to interpret data and transform it into a meaningful story if vital.
  • Desired: knowledge of statistical modelling and visualisation standard processes, UX/UI.

• Data manipulation and transformation: proficiency in SQL is required.
  • Desired: knowledge in Python/R applied to data analysis. Data management certifications (DAMA or others).
• Data architecture and modelling: intermediate knowledge of data architecture, modelling and data management principles is critical.
  • Desired: database design, systems integrations standard processes.

• Experience with ETL/ELT Processes: intermediate knowledge of data extraction, transformation and ingestion processes.
  • Desired: best practices in complex system integrations and quality principles for data ingestion.
• Machine Learning and GenAI: basic understanding of ML models and familiarity with GenAI principles.
  • Desired: previous experiences on those domains, with proven benefits/hands-on.
• Agile principles: advanced knowledge in agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and tools (Azure DevOps) for product development.
  • Desired: certifications on that area.
• Data governance and quality: advanced knowledge in data governance and quality assurance principles. Intermediate knowledge of privacy regulations (GDPR).
  • Desired: certifications on that are.
• Cloud Platforms and Data Tools: good familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, as well as data tools like Tableau, Power BI, and Hadoop/Spark, is helpful for building and deploying data products.
  • Desired: good understanding and/or certifications on Azure and Databricks.

Soft Skills

• Communication and Storytelling: solid experience on translating complex data point into clear, actionable messages.
• Strategic and Innovation thinking: intermediate experience with innovation methods applied to data strategic execution and solid understanding of data products aligned to business goals
• Collaboration and Influence: strong social skills are needed for working with cross-functional teams, influencing stakeholders, and rallying support for product initiatives.
• Problem-Solving and Analytical Thinking: advanced ability to break down complex problems into actionable steps to solve business challenges.
• Customer appreciation: strong ability to understand other’s situations and levels of understanding. The ability to visualise partner needs and translate this to impactful data products is critical.
• Adaptability and Resilience: need to remain agile and open to received and process feedback, adjusting attitudes, processes, and products to changes in technology, business needs, and market trends.
• Project Management: organizational skills, including time management, team management (directly and/or indirectly) and task prioritization, are crucial for handling the demands of product development.
• Leadership and mentorship: inspiring and guiding both technical and non-technical team members, often without direct authority, is key to fostering a high-performance, collaborative environment.

Commercial domain expertise

• Revenue growth management: experience with revenue metrics and processes, including different dataset knowledge and connection between them, such as Sell-Out sources, pricing and market trends sources.
• Outlet execution: experience with sales execution tools and processes (assortment metrics, share of space, planograms).
• Commercial master data: experience with different master data elements (product, outlet, customer) and different levels of granularity on each.

Flexible Working Statement: Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one.

Diversity statement: Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating 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 welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an 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 create 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 shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Bangalore Karle Town SEZ

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-04-24