Ice Cream Customer Analytics Engineering Lead

Scope: US, Customer Development

Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ - Hybrid

Terms & Conditions: Full time, International sponsorship or relocation not supported

The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, aiming to become an independent, EUR 8.3 billion publicly listed company by the end of 2025. We’re on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company.​ A place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded. And where we craft extraordinary ice cream experiences - transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories.​ Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream.​

ABOUT THE MAGNUM ICE CREAM COMPANY:

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is all about growth. Growing our business. Growing our customers’ businesses. Growing our people’s careers.​ Growth begins with empowerment. So we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments – and having fun doing it.​  

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry.  We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.  

We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of The Magnum Ice Cream Company as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen before the end of 2025.  

We dream big but keep things simple to act fast.​ 

If you want to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of Ice Cream, this is the place for you! 

JOB PURPOSE:

The Customer Analytics Engineering Lead will report to the Associate Director of CD Analytics and Insights and will be responsible for the next generation of data capabilities and the data foundation, ensuring the US Customer Development function has the appropriate data, analytics, and tools necessary to achieve its sales ambitions. In this role, you will have the opportunity to build and architect a scalable data analytics platform and lead a dynamic data analytics team responsible for advancing Magnum’s selling capabilities across sales, category management, shopper marketing and channel strategy. 

This is a hands-on technical role with strong business integration. The ideal candidate not only has deep data engineering expertise but also thrives on working directly with commercial and customer development stakeholders to co-design data solutions that integrate seamlessly into business processes. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Work closely with business stakeholders to translate needs into well designed and executed technology products that are embedded into daily decision-making, with a focus on promotion optimization, syndicated and retailer data, demand forecasting, shopper marketing, digital commerce, and sales reporting  

• Design & implement a modern data lake environment to support scalable ingestion, transformation, and storage of retailer, syndicated, and internal commercial data.  

• Establish the semantic layer and data modeling framework, defining consistent business logic and unified data definitions, consistent with how the business operates, that enable self-service analytics and integration across data products.  

• Build and operationalize advanced analytic models, including demand forecasting, promotion performance, assortment optimization, and shopper behavior modeling.  

• Liaise with local and global business and technology teams to define, manage, and enhance Magnum’s Customer Development analytics capabilities  

• Maintain pulse on market for new third-party data and tool offerings 

• Support th