Data & AI Strategy and Learning Expert at Opella · Barcelona

Data & AI Strategy and Learning Expert

Location: Barcelona, Spain

You’ve built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we’re challenging how self-care works for millions of people and need leaders and experts ready to shape what’s next. As a Data & AI Strategy and Learning Expert, you’ll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human.

About the job

This role is central to defining, enabling, and sustaining Opella’s Data & AI transformation. You will lead the development of Data & AI strategies, support their execution across functions and regions, and embed governance, learning, and value‑driven thinking into everything we do. You will work closely with senior leaders, portfolio and value teams, and functional partners, connecting strategy, capabilities, and outcomes into a coherent and actionable approach.

• Lead initiatives that advance our brands and strengthen our reputation worldwide.
• Mentor and uplift emerging talent while pushing your own growth and influence.
• Put purpose into practice — embedding sustainability, access and social impact into every decision.
• Model the challenger mindset: question complexity, act with integrity and make things radically simple.
• Help shape a culture that’s ambitious, collaborative and serious about recognition and belonging.

Main responsibilities

• Define and evolve Opella’s Data & AI strategy in alignment with business priorities.
• Drive strategy execution by identifying initiatives, tracking progress, and measuring impact.
• Design Data & AI operating models adapted to functions and regional needs.
• Partner with the Value Office to identify, measure, and track value from Data & AI initiatives.
• Establish learning and up‑skilling programs to strengthen data and AI capabilities at all levels.
• Reinforce Data & AI governance, ethics, and compliance across initiatives.
• Act as a trusted partner to leaders, translating strategy into clear, actionable direction.

Key Requirements

• Experience shaping and executing Data, AI, or digital strategies in complex organizations.
• Strong understanding of data, analytics, and AI concepts, paired with business acumen.
• Proven ability to design operating models, ways of working, or transformation frameworks.
• Experience leading learning, capability‑building, or change initiatives at scale.
• Structured and analytical mindset, with a focus on value and outcomes.
• Confident communicator, comfortable engaging senior leaders and global teams.

This is more than the next step in your career, it’s a chance to lead change and help reinvent self-care for the world. If you’re ready to challenge, inspire and deliver impact that matters, we’re ready for you. **We are challengers. We are Opella.****About Us:**Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting.At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan. As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com.

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