Opportunity

Head of Data Platform

Are you passionate about unlocking value through data, machine learning, business intelligence and advanced analytics? Do you have strong people leadership and stakeholder management skills and thrive in a truly international environment? Then this role might be something for you.

My name is Pernille Krogh-Meyer and I am the Chief Information Officer for Svitzer. An exciting opportunity to join my leadership team in our Technology organization is now open and I am looking for someone to head up our Data Platform function.

As Head of Data Platform, you will be leading a diverse team of app. 10 people with capabilities across data engineering, data science, product owner for data products and a BI Delivery Manager (4 Svitzer employees and 6 people from our partner in Portugal). The team is responsible for driving forward data-driven decision making by delivering data solutions, insights and products for internal optimization of our core business as well as data products with the potential to go to market as a differentiator for Svitzer in the future.

We offer

Svitzer is a towage company, which means we help our customers maneuver their larger ships safely and timely in and out of port. We operate globally. Most of our business is to support container vessels, cargo ships, cruise ships and navy vessels but we also attend to emergencies like vessels being adrift or offshore fires.

Technology as a strong partner to different business areas is key in making the operations run efficiently and to innovate the future of Svitzer, and especially your team working with data is a key enabler for our strategy. In particular, our ambitious goal to decarbonize our operations fully over the next decade. We are on an exciting journey shaping the future of Technology in Svitzer and defining our role in innovating the industry.

Key responsibilities

• Leading the Data Platform team and proactively driving team engagement
  
  
• Manage team capacity as well as mix of internal employees and external partners
  
  
• Empower, support, and develop the team with coaching and opportunities for growth
  
  
• Define the future data strategy of Svitzer, shaping how technology will enable Svitzer’s corporate data and digital future
  
  
• Set overall team priorities in order to drive execution
  
  
• against the strategy while also managing near team stakeholder and product needs
  
  
• Define and collaborate on team ways of working to ensure a strong engineering and productive working culture
  
  
• Overall accountability for the Svitzer data platform technology, its reliability, performance, and cost
  
  
• Being part of and contribute to the Svitzer Technology Leadership team
  
  

We are looking for someone who:

• Has been working in a setup with a data platform serving multiple products
  
  
• Is a strong leader who has established and led a data team serving multiple products from an engineering and data science perspective
  
  
• Understands the technology and how to apply it to gain most value out of data, machine learning and advanced analytics and hence can spar with the team on same topics
  
  
• Is driven by value creation and can use this for prioritizations between products on the data platform
  
  
• Has experience with vendor management – delivering via near-shore sourced teams from selected vendors
  
  
• Has experience in driving digital data products from idea to a commercial product to be sold in the market
  
  
• Has a pragmatic mindset with the ability to move up and down between strategic, tactical and also be a strong executor him/herself – we have an entrepreneurial spirit valuing head, heart and hands together
  
  
• Holds superior stakeholder management and communication skills and can easily translate complex technology and data topics to understandable language at all levels in the organization
  
  
• Has a collaborative working style both within the Technology leadership team and across Svitzer
  
  

Experience working with big data, data streaming and IoT as well as experience with applying machine learning and building products using machine learning and data science is an advantage.

Building a Diverse Workplace

In Svitzer we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability, or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that members from some under-represented groups are less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t meet every single qualification. At Svitzer we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles, and we are excited about hearing from you!

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