Head of Data, Adevinta
Marktplaats
Participation in our Short-Term Incentive plan (annual bonus)
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2-5 days a week in office
Digital marketplace specialist & family of local digital brands
Job no longer available
Digital marketplace specialist & family of local digital brands
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
Participation in our Short-Term Incentive plan (annual bonus)
More information about location
2-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create perfect matches that help everyone and everything find a new purpose through technology, talent and trusted brands.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to coach others to become more data driven and increase their ability to work effectively with data and increase business value using data
- Work closely with Product and Technology leadership, business teams, and other cross-functional departments stakeholders to align data initiatives with broader business goals
- Adaptability and flexibility to work in a fast-paced and constantly evolving industry. Customer-focused mindset to understand and meet user and business needs
- Demonstrate strong project management skills with a proactive approach to driving change management
- Lead, mentor and develop a team of up to 40 people implementing a performance and cooperative culture. Experience in managing distributed teams required
- Extensive experience in Data Engineering and in Data Mesh application
- Extensive experience in Data Privacy and Data Security
- Extensive experience in Data Governance
- Solid experience in Analytics and ML/AI scopes
- Experience with strategy in data products and solutions, involving several teams, complex timelines, level of quality and cost
- Have deep technical insights, with ability to deep dive and excel at system design and architectural choices of complex distributed systems
- Experience in Software design patterns (microservices, messaging, distributed architectures)
- Good understanding of privacy and network and application security
What the job involves
- We're looking for a creative and inspiring data champion to step into the role of Head of Data for Marktplaats
- This critical position will help deliver high quality and cost-efficient data capabilities that users love to enable Product & Technology and business teams to use data effectively in their processes
- You report to the CTO and will be part of the Product & Technology Leadership team and will lead and develop a team of diverse data professionals responsible for setting the strategy, developing and maintaining all data capabilities powering Marktplaats
- This includes, advanced machine-learning solutions (recommendation engines, personalisation, image recognition), data warehouse and analytics tooling and automation
- To understand our scale: our ML/AI products enhance over 25MiO search a day, and produce 10MiO recommendations. Across our platform we have over 150 data products fed by 100+ data pipelines, resulting in having just over 2 Petabytes of data stored
Our take
Adevinta Spain is part of the global Adevinta family, which is publicly listed in its native Norway. The company as a whole is one of the world’s largest classified marketplace companies, boasting a portfolio of around 50 brands in over a dozen countries, and employing close to 10,000 people.
The Spanish arm owns a number of the country's top digital classifieds marketplaces including Fotocasa, InfoJobs, and Milanuncios. At a time when larger companies are acquiring scores of eCommerce startups – a concept dubbed “eCommerce rollups” – it’s really interesting that Adevinta seems to have made quite the head start.
Indeed the fact that Adevinta isn’t going after D2C brands, but the marketplaces themselves, is clever. Considering that well over $2 trillion is spent annually on online marketplaces, Adevinta Spain (as well as Adevinta as a whole) is operating from a position of strength in an extremely lucrative market, especially since a buyout by Blackstone and Permira in November 2023 was initiated. This will further bolster Adevinta's position as a market leader under strong new ownerhsip.
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Company benefits
- Our work model prioritises remote work combined with face-to-face dynamics in the office that help us connect and make strategic decisions as a team. There are a minimum of 5 face-to-face days per quarter that you will pick with your team, that is, a minimum of 20 days a year, of which there are 8 days that we have chosen for everyone because they are meetings that reinforce our culture as a company (development conversations with managers, the creation of objectives or the summer celebration and Christmas party).
- Furthermore, you have the option of working up to four weeks a year from wherever you'd like. To do this, you must have a good internet connection and be able to follow the team's schedules.
- Every year we engage into benchmarking against the external market in order to create competitive compensation packages. Moreover, we do have plans that allow you to "flex your gross salary" in order to purchase benefits such as meal vouchers, commuters card, training and child care.
- We have Apple, Dell and Samsung options to choose the hardware that helps you most in your daily life. Choose between a Macbook Pro or Dell XPS laptop and an iPhone XR or Samsung S9 phone.
- Do you travel by car or motorcycle? We subsidize part of the parking cost.
- Your well-being is our priority. We cover fully for your medical insurance and we allow family members to be added to the policy for a discounted price.
- At the Barcelona office, you can enjoy sessions of 1 hour of physiotherapy.
- Do you like going to the gym? We sponsor 70% of the monthly fee of your chosen centre/ studio and we have agreements with both Andjoy and McFit for discounted membership prices.
- We enjoy 23 days of paid-time-off a year.
- We offer free breakfast and drinks at our Barcelona office every day of the week. You can also choose to enjoy the freshmade set daily menu in our canteen for an economical price. In Madrid on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays you can enjoy free breakfast.
Company values
- Act For Max Impact
- Use Your Voice
- Grow Through Different Perspectives
- Win And Lose Together
- Experiment Bravely
Company HQ
Barcelona, Spain
Articles
Leadership
Antoine Jouteau
(CEO (Not Founder))Previosuly Senior Advisor at FAMAE Impact, Investor at Voie 21, CEO at Leboncoin and Member of the Advisory Board at Orchestra-Prémaman.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Adevinta
- Women in Leadership: Our global year-long accelerated development programme designed to get more women ready to succeed in leadership roles.
- The Change Makers: A peer-led grassroots group with a mission to create a workplace where differences are embraced and every single person feels like they belong. They run workshops and initiatives on topics such as unconscious bias, allyship and privilege tailored for Adevintans.
- LGBTQ+ community: Formed in early 2020 with the aim of providing a space for LGBTQ+ colleagues and allies to connect and share their experiences.
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