Romain NIO

Global Data Director @ Pernod Ricard

Paris, Île-de-France, France

About

Data Executive building data-driven organizations that generate business value Leading global data transformation at Pernod Ricard (multi-million euro portfolio) with dozens of Product Owners and hundreds of data experts (matrixed) 15+ years turning data into measurable business impact. Key achievements: - Built the global data organization from ground up, recruiting Product Owners to cover global and local scope. - Led BI/data strategy for global ERP consolidation, establishing unified BI foundations and harmonized KPIs across all business functions - Scaled the Pernod Ricard Data Portal to 1,500+ daily users, now co-developed with international partners - Established single sources of truth eliminating conflicting metrics and enabling aligned decision-making enterprise-wide - Supported strategic AI initiatives including enterprise AI platform, AI-powered marketing optimization and sales effectiveness tools Data Strategy & Operating Models • Business Value & ROI • Leadership & Cross-functional Influence Data Platforms & Architecture • Analytics, BI & AI Enablement • Governance & Data Quality

Experience

  • Pernod Ricard (11 yrs)
    • Global Data Director
      Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

      I lead the group-wide Data & Analytics portfolio to scale data-driven decision-making across Pernod Ricard. The scope includes data product strategy, data platform enablement, and global & local business continuity — all aligned with the group's digital transformation agenda. Leading a multi-million euro portfolio with dozens of Product Owners and hundreds of data experts (matrixed) across all Group markets. Focus: Business value, platform reliability, and global reuse. Key achievements: - Built a unified global & local Data/Tech organization (people & governance) - Deployed 20+ Data Domains establishing single sources of truth across business areas - Led BI/data strategy for global ERP consolidation, harmonizing KPIs across all functions - Scaled Data Portal to 1,500+ daily users, now co-developed with international partners - Accelerated AI & ML adoption through unified data foundations and platform readiness

    • Head of global data
      Jan 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Created and led the Global Data team to accelerate Pernod Ricard's data-driven transformation. Defined group-wide tech & data strategy, delivering platforms and products across governance, engineering, architecture, BI and data science. Member of the CTO Leadership Team.

    • Head of Data Center of Excellence
      Jun 2020 - Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Created the Data Center of Excellence to accelerate Data platform company ambition. Delivered reusable expertise, platforms and data products to enable and scale global and local data initiatives.

  • Chief Data Officer - devOps / Big Data at Oscaro
    Jan 2014 - Jun 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Built Oscaro's first modern data strategy and platform from scratch, deploying Hadoop-based infrastructure and establishing data pipelines to enable data-driven decision-making across the e-commerce business.

  • Big Data Engineer at Thales
    Sep 2011 - Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Led data engineering projects for banking sector clients, implementing Hadoop-based data processing pipelines and building full-stack web applications. Developed BI solutions including ETL workflows and dashboards for business intelligence.

  • Developper at Thales Systèmes Aéroportés
    Sep 2010 - Sep 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Working for Thales (company speciliazed in the defense sector) in the Electronic Warfare service : - Automatization of advanced linux installation to faciliate the deployment at scale (using linux / PXE technology) - Creation of an intuitive application to simplify and automatize FTP transferts (JAVA) - Creation of a tool able to drive OpenOffice spreadsheet in order to automatically create visualization

  • Founder at Rom-informatique
    Jan 2010 - Sep 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Websites creation : - Create websites for local organization (sport team, e-commerce website, etc) Computer maintenance : - Repairing Laptop & desktop computers - E-commerce website Selling laptop parts and computer