Job Ref #: DBI&DEMANAGER(DP018004001)001
Industry: FMCG
Job Type: Permanent
Positions Available: 1

Job Description

This role sits at the intersection of business intelligence, governance, systems integration, analytics delivery, and AI transformation. You’ll help turn information into decisions, AI into capability, and complexity into clarity.

You’ll lead the charge in shaping how Montego uses data as a strategic asset — while ensuring our analytics ecosystem remains governed, scalable, commercially relevant, and actually useful to the humans making decisions.

If you can speak fluent Power BI, think in data models, challenge business assumptions constructively, and use AI tools like they’re part of your daily toolkit (because they should be), keep reading.

What You’ll Be Owning

Data Strategy & Governance

You’ll define and drive Montego’s long-term Data & Analytics Strategy, ensuring it aligns with operational priorities, business growth, and our AI transformation roadmap.

You’ll:

• Establish and govern enterprise-wide Data Governance practices
• Drive data quality, stewardship, classification, lineage, and access controls
• Ensure POPIA compliance across all data activities
• Chair cross-functional Data Governance forums
• Maintain structured metadata and data dictionary practices
• Lead response management for data incidents, governance breaches, and integration failures

Business Intelligence & Analytics Delivery

You’ll oversee Montego’s BI ecosystem — ensuring reports don’t just exist… they drive action.

You’ll:

• Govern the Power BI environment, standards, access, and reporting structures
• Manage the analytics delivery pipeline from intake to published insight
• Oversee executive, operational, and analytical reporting across the business
• Leverage AI tools like Copilot and Claude to accelerate analytics capability
• Ensure analytical outputs are accurate, relevant, and actively adopted
• Establish quality assurance and validation standards across reporting and analytics

Data Integration & Business Systems Intelligence

You’ll act as the strategic bridge between business systems and the analytics layer.

That means:

• Governing how data flows between systems like Dynamics 365, HubSpot, Repsly, Sage 300, and our analytics environment
• Defining integration, extraction, and transformation requirements
• Ensuring data structures are analytically usable
• Partnering closely with the IT Business Applications function
• Maintaining oversight of data quality, consistency, and integrity across systems

AI Leadership & Adoption Enablement

AI adoption at Montego is not a “future initiative.” It’s already happening.

Help the business move faster — responsibly, strategically, and without unnecessary bureaucracy.

You’ll:

• Lead and champion AI adoption across the organisation
• Drive AI enablement alongside the AI Transformation Lead
• Define and execute the AI adoption roadmap
• Model AI-native behaviour personally
• Sponsor AI initiatives visibly across leadership structures
• Create governance guardrails that enable progress rather than block it

Leadership & Team Management

You’ll lead a growing capability area and help shape the culture around it.

You’ll:

• Manage and develop the Data Platform Manager and AI Transformation Lead
• Build a culture of accountability, curiosity, and continuous improvement
• Establish AI literacy as a baseline team expectation
• Participate in hiring and capability development
• Live and reinforce Montego’s culture and values daily

Prioritisation & Delivery Governance

Not every request can be “urgent.” You’ll help the business understand what matters most — and why.

You’ll:

• Operate a structured intake and prioritisation process
• Maintain transparent delivery pipelines and stakeholder communication
• Participate in digital steering and prioritisation forums
• Manage delivery risk and escalate blockers proactively
• Ensure commitments are either met or responsibly renegotiated

Job Requirements

What You’ll Need

Must Haves:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, Business Informatics, or equivalent (NQF 7)
• 8–10 years’ relevant experience in Data, BI, Analytics, or Governance environments
• 3–5 years in a senior leadership role with direct people management responsibility
• Strong experience in:
• • Enterprise Data Governance
  • Business Intelligence Delivery
  • Data Integration & Analytics Design
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Cross-functional leadership
• Demonstrated practical use of AI tools

*A note on AI proficiency: This is not a "learning on the job" requirement. We expect the person in this role to already use AI tools — Claude, Copilot, or equivalent — as a natural part of how they work. Not occasionally. Not experimentally. Daily, practically, and with clear judgement about when and how. This will be assessed during the interview process, not taken at face value from a CV.

• Valid Code B Driver’s Licence

Bonus Points For

• Honours, MBA, or equivalent postgraduate qualification
• Microsoft Power BI Certifications
• DAMA CDMP or equivalent Data Governance certification
• POPIA / Data Privacy certifications or coursework
• Azure Data Services certifications
• Experience in FMCG, manufacturing, agribusiness, or complex operational environments

The Kind of Human We’re Looking For

You’re commercially minded, analytically sharp, and calm under pressure.

You can:

• Think strategically without losing operational grip
• Influence across technical and non-technical teams
• Balance governance with agility
• Use AI as a practical accelerator
• Translate complexity into action
• Hold people accountable while still building trust

Technical Knowledge We’d Love You To Bring

• DAMA DMBOK principles
• POPIA and Data Privacy legislation
• Power BI, Power Platform, Copilot ecosystem
• Enterprise data architecture and modelling
• ETL / ELT concepts and analytics data layers
• AI governance and data access risk considerations
• ERP / CRM / operational data environments
  
  

About Montego
Montego Pet Nutrition, a family business established in 2000 in the Karoo region of South Africa, is a well-loved and innovative pet care brand committed to establishing Africa as an important player in the global pet industry. For 26 years, our genuine love of pets has been at the heart of our business and supports our promise of “Better Every Day”. Today, pet owners in more than 39 countries across multiple continents trust us to produce world-class products with the health and wellbeing of pets in mind.