Data Product Lead

The Role

Join an inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees and play a key role in shaping how data drives business success. As Data Product Lead, you will define and deliver high-value data products for your domain, ensuring data is trusted, well-governed, and aligned to business needs. Working closely with Data & AI leaders, architects, and business stakeholders, you will help enable analytics, AI, and better decision-making across the enterprise. 

Principle Accountabilities

• Define and maintain the domain data product strategy, standards, and architectural principles, ensuring alignment with the wider Data & AI strategy and enterprise architecture direction. 
• Own and prioritise the domain data product backlog, including data products, data assets, quality improvements, metadata, lineage, foundational pipelines, and ongoing enhancement activities. 
• Lead domain data governance activities, ensuring clear data ownership, effective business requirement gathering, compliance and robust issue management and escalation. 
• Partner with and provide leadership to Data Product teams, shaping data requirements, ensuring delivery readiness, and guiding value-driven product development, data engineering, architecture, and master data management activities. 
• Oversee domain data quality, metadata, catalogue management, lineage models, and semantic definitions. 
• Collaborate closely with Business Process Owners, Data Owners, Product Owners, and Tower Domain Leads to align data products with operational processes and business priorities, manage domain priorities and roadmaps, and drive continuous improvement. 

Skills and Experience Required

• Professional experience and qualifications in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, Data, Cyber Security, Architecture, or a related discipline. 
• Significant experience across data and technology domains, including data, analytics, AI, data products, data platforms, governance, or data architecture, with a proven track record operating as a senior specialist, technical lead, product/platform lead, or process owner. 
• Demonstrable experience developing and managing strategic frameworks including roadmaps, standards, lifecycle plans, design guardrails, governance models, and service improvement plans within complex enterprise environments. 
• Strong practical understanding of enterprise technology delivery, including architecture principles, security, service management, operational resilience, and supplier or partner operating models. 
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams to develop pragmatic and sustainable solutions. 
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills, with the ability to balance innovation, cost, risk, reliability, compliance, and delivery feasibility. 

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.