Vice President of Enterprise Data

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Position Summary

Fogo de Chão is conducting a search for a visionary Data Leader as the company pursues high-growth market opportunities. Reporting to the CFO, the Senior Director Data is a critical role responsible for establishing a modern data ecosystem to create near-term value and long-term competitive advantage for Fogo de Chão by enabling trusted data insights across the Enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Envisioning, establishing, and championing a data strategy with a target state architecture that moves data gravity to a commercially-centric, cross-application-sourced data layer including tools, governance, processes, and sustainment methods.
• Building a short- and long-term roadmap enabling commercial strategy, prioritizing and accelerating the highest value opportunities in close partnership with the Executive Leadership Team.

This includes but is not limited to :

• Collaborating across functions to build and communicate a plan to deliver on commercial objectives with reasonable, reliable timeline and investment estimates.
• Leveraging data from various platforms (CRM, CDP, credit card processors, web, industry data aggregators, etc.) to develop disruptive insights, actionable recommendations, and strategic next steps.
• Developing data science capabilities to enable growth at speed and scale, targeting solutions to business opportunities and barriers.
• Determining how to best leverage data science, machine learning, AI and other analytical techniques to accelerate value creation and return on investment.
• Strong partnership with the IT team on infrastructure, security and environment / integration considerations.

Experience Guidelines Career

• 8-10 years of Data Engineering & Analytics experience; at least 5 years in data-focused leadership positions.
• Experience conceiving, implementing and continually improving enterprise data management programs including storage, analysis, transformation including enrichment, governance, visualization, and intelligence.
• 3-5 years of cloud-based data engineering experience including cloud data warehouses and open-source platforms including experience with AWS, Azure, data modeling, cloud data storage and data visualization tools and techniques.
• Demonstrated ability using data / systems to drive commercial results.
• Experience in high-growth businesses.
• Consumer industry experience required; restaurant experience strongly preferred.
• Private Equity or Management Consulting experience a plus.

Characteristics

• Self-starter with visible leadership skills and executive presence; motivates individuals and teams to achieve objectives.
• Strong bias toward delivering measurable commercial value.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, transparent style with cross-functional stakeholders across the organization to lead and deliver results.
• Adept at leveraging external expertise and resources to provide speed, scale, capacity.
• Effective oral and written communications.

Education

Undergraduate degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics, engineering, data science or a related field; MS, MBA, or related advanced degree is a plus.

Location and Travel Requirements

The Vice President of Enterprise Data will be an onsite role, requiring travel on occasion.

Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance are available for full-time Team Members on the first of the month following their start date.

Additionally, company-paid Life Insurance and Short-Term Disability are provided where allowed. We offer a comprehensive voluntary benefits package including Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Coverage, Permanent Life, and Pet Insurance.

Fogo de Chão is an Equal Opportunity & E Verify Employer.

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