Commercial Analytics Director (foodpanda, foodora, Yemeksepeti)

About the Role:

In July 2024, Delivery Hero SE merged three of its market-leading food delivery businesses, foodora and Yemeksepeti in Europe, and foodpanda in Asia into one Pandora organization, to better unlock synergies and accelerate growth.

A new unified Pandora Data & Analytics team is a part of this transformation, with the mandate to elevate talent density, standardize methods and tools and elevate the decision-making culture in our business.

As the Director, Commercial & Markets Analytics, you will lead a high-impact analytics organization supporting both our Commercial function & local Markets. This dual-hat role blends operational excellence with strategic partnership, requiring a leader who can drive measurable business outcomes, scale data capabilities, and elevate analytics maturity across diverse stakeholders.

You will oversee a large team of analysts and analytics managers and be a strategic partner to our Commercial & Markets leadership stakeholders driving the use of data to improve efficiency, unlock growth, and shape decision-making at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and inspire a cohesive team of top-performing data analysts. Create a culture that emphasizes continuous learning, effective communications and the delivery of consistently high quality work products.

• Stakeholder Partnerships: Build strong relationships with stakeholders in Commercial and other key stakeholders, by demonstrating a holistic understanding of the business and strategic priorities.

• Operational Optimization: Shape and drive initiatives that improve operational performance deploying technical innovations (modeling, forecasting, automation etc.) to business problems.

• Prioritization: Prioritize initiatives on the basis of transparent principles for potential impact on business outcomes. Ensure the team is focused on the highest-value work.

• Data Quality and Consistency: Enable the team to find an optimal balance between speed and consistency with our broader ethos of avoiding multiple sources of truth and duplication of work products.

• Rigor: Review and elevate the work products of the team - advanced data models, storyboarded decks, dashboards.

Qualifications:

• Around 12+ years of experience in tech, consulting, retail or similar industry, with at least 5+ years leading analytics teams. Experience in Operations, Logistics, or CPG is a plus.

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science).

• Excelled influencing skills, with experience presenting storyboarded insights and strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders and executives.

• Experience with machine learning, forecasting, and optimization models is a strong plus.

• Experience working in a fast-paced, international environment.