Data Project Lead, Enterprise Data and Analytics (up to 3 year project)

Overview

As a Data Project Lead within Enterprise Item Lifecycle Management (EILM), you will be responsible for leading highly complex data and analytics strategic project workstreams as a part of larger cross-functional EILM initiatives. You will be working primarily with the EILM Lead to lead teams of Staff from several business units, Digital Transformation & Technology (DTT), Enterprise Data & Analytics (ED&A), contingent workers, and 3rd party vendors on transformation journeys to deliver the most value out of EILM for the enterprise. In addition, you will partner with the EILM Governance Board and Product Working Group to align on direction and resourcing. Ultimately, you will have the immense responsibility of strengthening EILM's influence the discipline of prioritizing enterprise initiatives over individual business unit initiatives in the "day-to-day" operations of Item data management.

 

For the first 12-16 months of your role, you will lead enterprise change management for Menu Data Migration with the EILM Lead. As part of your onboarding, you will be educated on and provided artifacts for the current and future state design, including Master Data Management strategy, Item data models, Stibo STEP System and Oracle Fusion structures, cross-platform integrations, and affected functional personas in the stewardship models. Menu Data Migration will complete the Design phase June 2024 and will have a change management plan in place for Build/Implementation through Q2/3 2025. Menu Data Migration will have a large operational impact on several business units across the enterprise. In addition to executing the change management plan as it is agreed upon, your role is also to build strong relationships with your cross-functional stakeholders and EILM teammates to further build confidence in EILM and sustain enterprise momentum for the 2027 EILM Roadmap.

 

For the remainder of your tenure, you will be advancing and delivering EILM 2027 Roadmap workstreams and supporting the EILM lead in developing the EILM Run-State Strategy with the Enterprise Stewardship Model. You will be leading the entirety of at least one of these workstreams:

 

Menu Data Migration Phase 2: You will leverage your experience leading workstreams within Menu Data Migration Phase 1 to drive cross-functional Strategy, Design, Build, and Release cycles for Proposal 2 (More Granular Usage Recipes) through mid-2027. This workstream will be similar to Phase 1 but will focus primarily on the Restaurant to Item relationship. It is anticipated that this change in the data model will have several operational impacts across internal Staff and Restaurant-facing technology platforms. As with Phase 1, you will develop and align on a change management plan with partners to coincide with the release cycles. You will partner with several of the same Staff and consultant teams from Phase 1 and are expected to deliver the new data model within STEP by mid-2027.

 

2. Cloud PLM Delivery: You will drive EILM position in future-state Cloud PLM strategy and implementation with the Menu Services Team (Marketing) through mid-2027. Chick-fil-A's current on-prem PLM solution will be retired in April 2027. You will be assigned to support the Menu Services team as they rapidly evaluate and execute PLM direction through early-2027. You will influence strategy and design. You will provide the enterprise lens through the RFP process and the future state PLM data model and influence any necessary improvements to cross-functional access to PLM data. As part of providing the enterprise lens, you will be expected to pull together teams of cross-functional stakeholders who may not have been previously engaged in PLM strategy to ensure that the PLM team does not implement a siloed design. You may have to directly support UAT and release cycles along with your DTT partners. You will influence the long-term maintenance schedule, including the reconciliation of PLM and EILM strategies, cross-functional impacts of changes to access and data, DTT support needs, amongst others. You are expected to support the delivery of a Cloud PLM platform by mid-2027.

 

Product Working Group 2.0: You will establish a sustainable, long-term cross-functional EILM Product Working Group structure and optimize delivery of Backlog Tickets through mid-2027. You will re-imagine the total scope, playbook, cadence, team member responsibilities, and relationship with the Governance Board. You will be expected to identify the roles necessary on PWG 2.0 and work with the Governance Board to nominate individuals across the enterprise to fulfill those roles. You will collaborate with the Supplier & Portfolio team to re-imagine the ticket intake and execution process to address enterprise Item data challenges. Specifically, you will define the roles of ticket owners and clarify the commitment and cadence to