Senior Manager of Analytics Engineering and Data Science

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Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies, boasting nearly $45 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 32,000 restaurants across more than 120 countries and territories.

RBI proudly owns four of the world's most iconic quick service restaurant brands: TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These brands have been serving guests, franchisees, and communities for decades. With our Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is committed to improving sustainable outcomes related to food, the environment, and the communities we serve.

Our commitment to growing the TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS® brands is unwavering. We leverage each brand's core values, employee and franchisee relationships, and proven track records of community support to drive success. Each brand benefits from the global scale and shared best practices that come from being part of Restaurant Brands International Inc.

Your Opportunity

Restaurant Brands International (RBI) is seeking a Senior Manager, Analytics Engineering & Data Science to lead a vital team supporting our EMEA business. This highly visible role operates at the intersection of data engineering, data science, AI implementation, and analytics. You will be responsible for shaping the technical direction and operating model for how data is engineered, modeled, governed, and transformed into actionable insights across our EMEA markets.

This role requires strong leadership skills to build and scale a team, deep technical expertise across the modern data stack—including building scaled LLM-enabled products—and the ability to prioritize competing demands from Analytics, Marketing, Digital, Operations, Finance, and Franchise stakeholders in all EMEA markets. The ideal candidate will excel at architecting a 3-year data strategy, coaching data scientists on forecasting models, presenting strategies to senior leadership, and designing AI-enabled pricing intelligence platforms.

This position reports to the Senior Director of Analytics, Insights, Data, and Digital for EMEA. RBI follows a 5-day, in-office work schedule to foster collaboration, and candidates should be comfortable working onsite 5 days per week.

Your Roles & Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Strategy
  • Build, lead, and mentor a growing, multi-disciplinary team spanning analytics engineering, product development, data science, data engineering, and data operations across EMEA.
  • Collaborate effectively with several global data and technology teams in a matrix-style organization.
  • Set team strategy, priorities, and ways of working with a focus on growing the data talent bench across the EMEA region.
• Data Strategy & Architecture
  • Own the short- and long-term data strategy for EMEA, including target data architecture and platform roadmap, building versus buying vendor/tooling decisions, and prioritizing data investments.
  • Collaborate with global data teams to enhance the design, scalability, and reliability of EMEA's data pipelines, warehousing, and architecture, primarily using Snowflake and AWS.
  • Ensure compliance with global data standards while adapting to local market needs, particularly EU GDPR regulations.
• Data Product & Design
  • Own and develop key EMEA data products, collaborating with international teams for global productionization.
  • Lead key analytics and data science product design and delivery in partnership with internal teams and external consulting partners.
• AI & Emerging Capability
  • Identify opportunities to integrate AI and LLM capabilities within analytics and data science workflows.
  • Prototype and pilot emerging AI/ML capabilities in collaboration with global AI enablement teams.
  • Evaluate emerging tools, platforms, and vendors; provide recommendations regarding AI-driven data capabilities.
• Data Operations & Governance
  • Oversee data quality, cataloging, and documentation of process flows across the EMEA data estate.
  • Establish scalable prioritization and governance practices as the team and data estate expand.
  • Define and maintain data governance standards in coordination with legal, security, and global data governance teams.
  • Ensure compliance with GDPR and other regional data privacy and regulatory requirements across all EMEA data assets and pipelines.

Your Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• 6-10 years of experience in data engineering, analytics, or data science within the QSR, restaurant, or hospitality industry.
• 3+ years of direct people leadership experience managing technical teams.
• Proven ability to build, lead, and grow multi-disciplinary technical teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management.
• Substantial experience leading cross-functional product teams with a successful track record in deploying actionable analytics and data products.
• Deep expertise in SQL and cloud data warehousing; experience with Snowflake and AWS is required.
• Experience with AI/LLM enablement or GenAI tooling application in data and analytics workflows.
• Strong data visualization skills (Tableau, Power BI, or similar).
• Experience with workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow, Dagster) and modern data stack tooling (e.g., dbt, Terraform).
• Programming skills in Python and/or R, with experience applying statistical or machine learning techniques a plus.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills; comfortable engaging a variety of stakeholders across multiple markets and functions.
• Experience operating within multiple countries or markets, with an understanding of data privacy regulation (GDPR) and cross-border data considerations.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Snowflake SnowPro, AWS Certifications) are a plus.
• Fluency in English is required.

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