About Refyne
Refyne is a specialist recruitment consultancy working exclusively within the beauty, wellness and consumer goods space. We partner with ambitious brands to connect them with exceptional talent, and we work with candidates to find roles that genuinely fit their skills and career goals.
About Our Client
Our client is a fast scaling global wellness brand on a mission to help people achieve optimal hydration and unlock their best daily performance. Founded only a few years ago, the business is already growing internationally, with hydration and electrolyte solutions designed to support modern, busy lifestyles.
The Opportunity
As the business scales, this newly created Head of Data role will build the data capability needed for the next stage of growth. Reporting into the COO, you will own the data strategy across four core areas: data foundations and governance, analytics and business intelligence, data platform and technology, and AI. This is a highly hands on leadership role, suited to someone who can think strategically about long term capability while being comfortable getting into the detail and building what is needed today. You will partner closely with the COO, senior leadership and teams across the business to ensure data and AI genuinely shape decision making.
Key Responsibilities
- Set and own the company's data strategy, translating business ambitions into a clear roadmap
- Assess the current data landscape, identifying gaps, duplication and opportunities
- Build the foundations for trusted data, including ownership, governance, common definitions and quality standards
- Raise the quality and effectiveness of reporting and analytics across the business, partnering with commercial, marketing, operations and finance teams
- Own the data platform, selecting pragmatic technology that fits current scale and can grow with the business
- Design how systems connect and build reliable integrations and data pipelines
- Own where AI is applied across the business, setting clear standards and boundaries for its use
- Build the data function as the company scales, determining the right capability and structure at each stage
Ideal Background
- Significant senior leadership experience within rapidly scaling, high growth businesses
- A track record of building or significantly transforming a data capability, not just operating within an already mature one
- Strong experience establishing data foundations, governance and sources of truth
- Experience improving analytics, reporting and business intelligence to drive better commercial decisions
- Experience designing or contributing to modern, cloud based data architecture
- Comfortable working closely with founders, COOs and senior leadership teams
- Experience within consumer, DTC, FMCG, health and wellness or a similar brand led business
- A pragmatic, ownership driven mindset, excited by building a data capability from the ground up rather than inheriting a finished one
Why Join
This is a genuine opportunity to build a data function from scratch at a fast growing, international wellness brand, with real ownership and close partnership with the COO and senior leadership from day one.