Head of IT: Data and Analytics

Job title: Head of IT: Data and Analytics

Company: Musgrave


Job description: Head of ITCork| HybridMusgrave is one of the Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses with a 140-year heritage in food and brand innovation, supporting communities across the island of Ireland and Spain.Every day we feed one in three people in Ireland through 18 market leading food and beverage brands that include SuperValu, Centra, Frank and Honest and Musgrave Market Place.We support thousands of retail and foodservice family businesses who live and work in the heart of the communities they serve.We are committed to becoming the most trusted and sustainable business in Ireland and we are making changes across the company to make sure that happens. We want to make a positive impact on the world and we will support our suppliers and customers to make a difference too.We are now recruiting for a Head of IT: Data and Analytics to join our Musgrave team. Role purpose, as senior leader you will be responsible for managing the Data and Analytics function and to deliver world class Data and Analytical Solutions which support the underpinning corporate Data strategy.Role Scope:The goal of the Data and Analytics function is to provide Data platforms, engineering and architecture capabilities to facilitate the timely capture, transformation and presentation of Data to drive faster and greater insight to solve business problems and to identify and exploit business opportunities via analytical solutions.The scope of this role is to help create and deliver on the corporate data strategy. It should deliver Data and Analytical platforms that facilitate analytical insights and discovery through the ingestion and transformation of data from source and made available in a trusted, secure and timely manner. The role will be responsible for unlocking business value within our data whilst achieving faster time to insight. The role requires a senior leader to manage a team of 5 to 7 senior Data managers and architects.Area of Responsibility: Data and AnalyticsKey Activities

• Manage a team of 5-7 senior Data managers, architects and PM’s
• Help create and deliver upon a corporate data strategy
• Deliver data and analytical platforms to facilitate BI and advanced analytics
• Deliver data engineering solutions across all Musgrave divisions
• Analysis, architecture, design and development of data and business intelligence solutions.
• Implement standards for naming, describing, governing, managing, modelling, cleansing, enriching, transforming, moving, storing, searching and delivering data within the business.
• Deliver high quality data pipelines, transformation processes and data models for driving analytic solutions.
• Research and maintain knowledge in emerging technologies and solutions to solve business problems.
• Work closely with business and technical counterparts to drive the delivery of data initiatives.
• Drive the effort to unlock value from our data.
• Manage Data Partners and vendors and ensure a strategic relationship is in place to deliver upon our Data strategy
• Actively participate and contribute to Data & Digital senior leadership team.

Measures

• Successful delivery of engineering solutions for Data platforms
• Successful delivery of a corporate Data Strategy
• Successful delivery of data platforms for analytical insights
• Deliver a future state reference architecture for Data landscape
• Become a trusted member of the Data & Digital Team Leadership team with a reputation for excellence
• Successful vendor management
• Set standards in terms technical excellence, delivery, and performance

Area of Responsibility: Development of the Data & Digital CommunityKey Activities:

• Engage with fellow leadership team to share lessons learned, useful information and experience
• Engage in training and learning & development activities
• Participate in team events
• Engage in continuous learning and improvement

Measures:

• Fully engaged member of the team

• On-going professional development

• Contributor to development of the team

Key Relationships

• Director of IT, Data, AI & Emerging Technology
• Head of Data Science
• CTO
• IT Leadership Team
• Heads of IT
• Heads of Business
• Enterprise Architect
• SecOps
• Live Services

Experience, Skills & Education

• 3rd level qualification
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or related field.
• 15+ years in IT roles
• 5+ years in senior IT Management roles
• 3 to 5 years of technical management experience
• Expert knowledge of Data platforms and infrastructure
• Experience building scalable data solutions
• Microsoft suite of data platforms, including Fabric & Power BI
• Databricks platform
• 6 to 10 years of solution development and technology experience
• Strong knowledge of a variety of data engines
• Excellent communicator, comfortable managing the expectations of customers as well as senior management and internal technical staff
• Strategic and analytical thinker
• Contributes, promotes, and adopts new ideas and approaches
• Strong teamwork and leadership skills, an ability to create, communicate and support a common vision and direction
• Excellent planning and organization skills, with the ability to confidently prioritise tasks & guide teams
• Ability to build and foster strong, trusted working relationships

Desirable

• Relational Databases/Data Platforms
• PM experience
• People Management
• Hands on agile team experience
• Project management
• Keen interest in the business environment and how data solutions can add value to the business
• Commitment to personal and professional development

Musgrave is an equal opportunities employer.We encourage applications from diverse candidates. If we can make any accommodations to enable you to be the best version of yourself during the interview, please let us know.TBCJob Ref:16476Work Type:PermanentSalary:CompetitiveApply before:8th August 2025

Expected salary:

Location: Cork

Job date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 07:31:43 GMT

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