What will you do? We are looking for a Principal IT Data Lead 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 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 bpost bnode LI-BP6