Principal IT Data Lead (Cross-Border - Snowflake)

bpost strives to create an inclusive environment with challenging projects and inspiring collaborations. With our colleagues at the heart of our organisation, we believe in careers rather than jobs. As part of the international group bnode, bpost has transitioned from the Belgian postal operator to a regional and digital expert in parcel size logistics. With a focus on social and environmental sustainability, our people are the foundation of everything we do. We foster a culture that supports diversity, inclusion and career growth, ensuring that every team member has the opportunity to thrive and succeedWhat will you do?

We are looking for a Principal IT Data Lead (Snowflake) to define and drive the data strategy for our global Cross-Border & Transport business. This is a high-impact role focused on enabling end-to-end visibility, performance management, and decision-making across a complex, multi-country logistics network.

You will lead the evolution of our data landscape towards a modern, cloud-based ecosystem, while ensuring the business can leverage trusted, scalable, and actionable data through self-service analytics, advanced insights, and AI-driven use cases.

This role operates at the intersection of business, data, and technology, with end-to-end responsibility for enabling performance, visibility, and decision-making across the cross-border network.

Your role

You act as the owner of data strategy and performance insights for the cross-border business.

You partner closely with senior stakeholders across operations, finance, commercial, and IT to translate business challenges into data-driven solutions with tangible impact.

You combine strategic thinking with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset to build both data foundations and business value.

Key responsibilities

• Define and drive the data strategy for Cross-Border & Transport, aligned with business priorities
• Enable a control tower capability providing real-time operational visibility and decision support
• Develop and evolve KPIs, data models, and performance frameworks such as cost-to-serve, SLA tracking, and shipment visibility
• Deliver actionable insights to support strategic and operational decision-making
• Lead the transformation towards a modern, AI-ready data platform such as Snowflake or Databricks
• Ensure data quality, governance, and consistency across countries and systems
• Drive self-service analytics through scalable semantic models and certified datasets such as Power BI
• Shape event-driven data capabilities and support near real-time use cases
• Partner with IT and engineering teams on data architecture, tooling, and roadmap
• Influence and align senior stakeholders across business and technology
• Build and scale data capabilities, products, and ways of working across regions

Who are you?

Your profile

• 10+ years of experience in data, analytics, or data platform leadership within a complex international environment
• Proven ability to define and execute data strategies with clear business impact
• Strong experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake and/or Databricks and cloud environments such as AWS or Azure
• Solid understanding of data modelling, KPI design, and performance management frameworks
• Experience with self-service analytics and tools such as Power BI
• Exposure to event-driven architectures and streaming data is a strong plus
• Good understanding of data governance, quality, lineage, and security principles
• Experience in logistics, transport, e-commerce, or similarly complex environments is a plus
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to operate at senior leadership level in a multi-country environment
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on, delivery-oriented mindset
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving change across teams

What do we offer?

Like a Long-awaited Parcel, We Want To Make You Feel Welcome And Valued. Our Offer Includes a Competitive Monthly Salary, That Goes Without Saying. On Top Of That, You Can Count On

• Meal vouchers of €8 per working day
• Hospitalization-, group- and disability insurances
• A phone subscription, including 25GB data
• A flexible renumeration plan, which allows you to customize your own benefits. A company car, bike leasing, public transportation, extra days off,... the choice is yours
• Possibility to enter the Federal Mobility plan
• Work/life balance, thanks to flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
• 20 days of statutory leave and 7 additional extralegal days off
• An end-of-year and performance-based bonus and double holiday pay
• Many benefits from more than 100 bpost-partners

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