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Background
At Alfa Laval our digital ambition is clear: to empower the organization with trusted highquality data and advanced analytics capabilities that fuel smarter decisions faster innovation and sustainable business value. Strengthening our enterprise data foundation is essential for building a digitally mature insightdriven company.
To accelerate this journey we are looking for a Product Manager Data & Analytics to lead the evolution of our global data platform and ensure it becomes a strategic enabler for all functions and business units. You will play a critical role in establishing a governed scalable and secure platform that supports analytics advanced insights and AI.
This role goes far beyond technology it combines product leadership data governance value realization and adoption enablement. You will ensure our data foundation is trusted reusable and built for longterm impact.
About the Job
As Product Manager for the Data & Analytics you will be responsible for defining and executing the strategy that strengthens Alfa Lavals ability to use data reliably and at scale.
Your mission spans eight core pillars:
Build and Evolve the Enterprise Data Foundation
Define and drive the strategy for Alfa Lavals global data platform ensuring scalability performance reliability and future evolution.
Lead development of unified governed data capabilities supporting analytics insights automation and AI use cases.
Establish and Embed Data Governance
Partner with Data Governance Enterprise Architecture and domain teams to operationalize governance policies data ownership and stewardship.
Ensure platform capabilities support metadata management lineage classification data contracts and governance workflows.
Drive Data Quality & Trust
Define data quality guardrails KPIs and automation requirements.
Promote continuous improvement practices that enhance trust reliability and transparency of data products and pipelines.
Lead Reusable Governed Data Products & Domain Models
Introduce standards for designing certifying and maintaining reusable data products.
Enable domain teams to build highquality data assets aligned with enterprise definitions and governance requirements.
Value Realization & Business Impact Tracking
Drive Adoption Change & Data Literacy
Build strong relationships across functions to accelerate platform adoption.
Influence cultural shift by driving communication enablement and data literacy activities.
Ensure that teams understand how to use governed data assets and platform capabilities effectively.
Ensure Security & Compliance by Design
Integrate data security privacy and compliance requirements into platform development.
Work with cyber security teams to ensure governance of access auditing encryption and sensitive data handling.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture & AI Initiatives
Cocreate architecture decisions that ensure the platforms longterm viability and alignment with enterprise technology direction.
Enable AI and advanced analytics by ensuring the data foundation supports ML Ops vector storage scalable compute and model governance.
Who You Are
You are an experienced product leader with deep knowledge of data platforms data governance and analytics enablement. You can translate business ambitions into actionable product direction build alignment across stakeholders and drive adoption through clarity communication and strong decisionmaking.
You thrive in complex environments and understand the importance of platform trust governance quality and user empowerment. You are as comfortable working with engineers and architects as you are facilitating discussions with senior stakeholders on strategy and value.
Your Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
Define and own the longterm product vision strategy and roadmap for the data foundation and analytics enablement.
Ensure alignment with Alfa Lavals Digital IT and Value Stream strategies.
Platform & Product Delivery
Maintain and prioritize the product backlog with strong focus on quality governance adoption and business value.
Oversee design development testing deployment and evolution of platform capabilities.
Ensure high engineering standards adherence to architecture principles and compliance with global IT practices.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
Engage with data engineers architects data scientists business owners and domain stakeholders.
Facilitate clear communication of vision progress and value.
Influence teams to adopt standard ways of working governance practices and reusable assets.
Adoption & Change Enablement
Drive onboarding communication documentation and training efforts.
Support business teams in operationalizing data governance and quality processes.
Experience & Qualifications
Must Have
3 years in Product Management Product Ownership or similar roles in the data/analytics domain.
Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure Data Platform (Data Lake Synapse Data Factory) Databricks and Power BI.
Practical understanding of data governance data quality data modelling metadata management and modern data architecture.
Experience leading enterprise-scale data transformations enabling analytics data science or AI initiatives.
Strong background in agile methodologies (Scrum SAFe DevOps).
Good to Have
Knowledge of ML Ops data product thinking Data Mesh or domain-driven design.
Experience working with Enterprise Architecture teams or security teams.
Background in cloud platform modernization.
Soft Skills
Ability to create clarity structure and direction in complex environments.
Strong communication skills tailored for both technical and senior business stakeholders.
Influence without authority; build trust through transparency.
Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive meaningful change.
Certifications (Preferred)
Product Owner / Product Manager certification.
Azure or Databricks certifications.
UX or Design Thinking certification is a plus.
We are conducting a continuous review of the applications received therefore please submit your application as soon as possible. Wedo not accept applications via email due to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
We care about diversity inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidates fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.
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