Global Data & AI Acceleration Lead (Media & Consumer)

The Global Data & AI Acceleration Lead is a forward-looking role that operates at the intersection of consumer data excellence and AI-powered marketing intelligence. This role is accountable for ensuring that global consumer & media data - spanning research, media, behavioral, and activation data - is not only governed, harmonized, and high-quality today, but is architected, engineered, and activated for AI-driven personalization, engagement, and decision-making tomorrow.

This role acts as Data Business Partner to Media, Consumer and Analytics team and shapes Business Product Ownership for AI-powered consumer data tools, content engineering for AI systems, and process design for scalable, automated data operations. It is the execution engine that translates the global consumer data vision into operational reality - managing data ingestion, platform data flows, consent governance, taxonomy maintenance, quality remediation, and local steward coordination - while simultaneously accelerating the adoption of intelligent, AI-enabled consumer intelligence and activation products across the organization.

This role is part of Global Data & AI Capability a vertical within Insights & Analytics (I&A) Home.

• Support the Consumer Data Domain Lead in defining and enforcing global data quality standards, taxonomies, consent frameworks, and mapping rules across consumer data sources and regions.
• Design and maintain global consumer data classification systems, ensuring cross-market consistency, privacy compliance, and aggregation readiness.
• Operate data quality monitoring frameworks, including automated scoring, anomaly detection, consent validation, identity checks, and threshold alerting.
• Lead remediation workflows across research data integrity and media/activation compliance, including escalation, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive controls.
• Act as cross-functional Business Product Owner for AI-powered consumer data and intelligence products, owning product vision, roadmap, backlog, and acceptance criteria with IT, Data Science, and Marketing Technology, so business teams can focus on value and activation.
• Connect consumer-facing teams defining needs with technology teams building solutions, translating outcomes into product requirements, prioritizing demand, and ensuring delivery aligns to commercial impact.
• Drive AI content engineering through metadata standards, semantic tagging, audience ontologies, glossaries, and schemas that enable GenAI and ML tools to interpret consumer data.
• Translate business needs into AI product requirements, including prompt logic, consumer context layers, identity frameworks, and output validation standards.
• Oversee consumer data ingestion from external partners and platforms, ensuring completeness, timeliness, consent compliance, and format standards.
• Establish media data quality, transformation, mapping, and taxonomy processes for accurate, consistent, analysis-ready inputs to MMM and performance reporting.
• Monitor data feeds and integrations to identify delivery issues, methodology changes, consent drift, identity degradation, and data quality erosion before downstream impact.
• Coordinate Consumer Data Stewards and Marketing Data leads, providing guidance, tooling, training, and governance cadence.
• Serve as operational point of contact between business, IT/engineering, media platforms, and data partners for consumer data topics.
• Design AI-augmented consumer data processes, identifying where automation or GenAI can replace manual workflows such as audience validation, consent monitoring, identity resolution, self-healing pipelines, and research coding.
• Pioneer "Data as a Product" for consumer data, defining SLAs, data contracts, interfaces, and feedback loops for media, brand, insights, and analytics teams.

Portugal : Estremadura : Carnaxide || Spain : Cataluña : Barcelona

• Global media partners including Google, Meta and IPG/Omnicom/BOND; External Research Vendors (Analytic Partners, Kantar, Toluna, IQVIA, Circana and others)