Data Lead

Who is DESOTEC?

DESOTEC is an international environmental services company helping to protect the planet with sustainable mobile filtration solutions for liquids and gasses . We have approximately 450 employees , united in Generation D , who are all committed to protecting the planet by promoting positive ecological changes across all sectors. Since 2026, DESOTEC has been part of EQT, an international Swedish investment group.

Your tasks & responsibilities?

At DESOTEC, we are on an ambitious growth journey, expanding internationally and scaling our operations across multiple markets. As data becomes increasingly critical in driving smart decisions, operational excellence and innovation, we are currently looking for a Data Lead to shape and lead this domain at the highest level. You will define how data supports our strategy and helps accelerate our impact. You will build bridges across teams, countries and systems, turning data into a true competitive advantage. This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on a fast-growing, purpose-driven international company. Your tasks & responsibilities?

• - Strategic Data Leadership: You define and drive DESOTEC’s global data strategy. You translate business priorities into a clear data roadmap, ensuring data becomes a key enabler of growth, innovation and operational excellence. You take ownership of DESOTEC's enterprise reporting landscape across ERP, Data Platform and BI environments, ensuring reporting supports impactful decision-making at all levels of the organization.
• - Data Organization & Governance: You establish and maintain a group-wide data governance framework, ensuring data quality, ownership, security and compliance across all entities. You standardize ways of working and create clarity in roles and responsibilities related to data. You drive reporting governance and ensure a reliable single source of truth across finance and business functions.
• - Architecture & Technology Direction: You take ownership of the overall data architecture and ecosystem. You guide decisions around platforms, data pipelines and integrations, ensuring scalability, performance and future-proof setups aligned with business needs.
• - Advanced Analytics & Business Impact: You drive the development of advanced analytics, business intelligence and AI use cases. You prioritize initiatives based on business value and ensure insights are effectively translated into decisions and actions. You define and maintain key business KPIs, data models and reporting standards, ensuring consistent and decision-ready insights throughout the organization.
• - Data-Driven Culture: You play a key role in embedding a data-driven mindset throughout the organization, empowering teams to leverage data in their daily decision-making.
• - Team Leadership & Development: You build and lead a high-performing team, foster collaboration and create an environment where talent can grow.

You bridge the gap between technical teams and the business, ensuring alignment and impact across the group.

You act as the key interface between Finance, IT and Business, translating business requirements into scalable reporting and analytics solutions.

Who are you?

• - You hold a Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. Data, IT, Engineering, Business or similar).
• - You bring extensive experience (± 5 years) within data, analytics, FP&A, controlling or a similar business-oriented data environment.
• - You are a people leader , able to coach, inspire and align multidisciplinary teams in an international environment.
• - You combine a strong technical understanding of data architecture, engineering, BI and analytics with a strategic mindset . You have experience setting up or scaling data platforms, governance frameworks and analytics capabilities.
• - You have extensive experience with Power BI, strong knowledge of SQL, and a solid understanding of ERP systems (preferably Microsoft Dynamics 365 ), data flows and reporting ecosystems.
• - You have a strong focus on data quality, governance and standardization, while maintaining a pragmatic approach that balances structure and agility in a fast-growing international environment.
• - You are able to translate business needs into impactful data and reporting solutions and communicate complex topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• - You take ownership of reporting outcomes and understand how high-quality insights contribute directly to business performance and strategic decision-making.

What does your team look like?

As Data Lead, you will lead a team of data engineers, data scientists and BI developers. You operate at Group level, working across multiple countries and entities, and play a key role in connecting business and technology. In this role, you deliver accurate, reliable and clearly explained reporting for the Senior Leadership Team and decision makers across the business units. You ensure that reports not only present the right figures, but also clarify the underlying insights, explain business impact and provide the necessary context to support informed decision-making across DESOTEC. If you can't tick off all the boxes, but you do recognize yourself in our three core values Teamwork, Excellence and Devotion, then we definitely invite you to take a chance and apply!

What's in it for you?

• A competitive salary: We guarantee you a (more than) competitive base salary, depending on your experience.
• Fringe benefits: To optimize your salary package, you can count on: a company car with charging card, a smartphone with a mobile subscription, a generous net expense reimbursement, meal vouchers, group and hospitalization insurance (AG Insurance), a non-recurrent CAO90 bonus, two annual gross bonuses, and the option for bicycle leasing after 6 months of service.
• Flexible compensation plan: You can convert part of your end-of-year bonus into benefits that suit your lifestyle, such as extra leave, multimedia, or a lease bike. This gives you the freedom to take control of your reward package and personalize it in a way that truly works for you, all within the applicable legal framework.
• Work-life-balance / hybrid working: You work during flexible hours and get the freedom to spend 2 days a week in your home office after a training period. This flexible working arrangement allows you to start your workday in a relaxed manner, avoiding the morning rush, and to enjoy a high level of autonomy.
• Time off to schedule freely: At DESOTEC there is no collective closure. You enjoy 29 paid vacation days and have the freedom to take 10 unpaid vacation days on top of that. This way you can increase your number of vacation days to 39 days!
• Personal & professional growth: You will have every opportunity to immerse yourself in your new role, but also to grow personally and professionally through an extensive range of training courses.
• Stay active & social: As an employee with a permanent contract, you can enjoy one free group sport lesson/activity per week at the Vision 21 gym in Roeselare, including activities like boxing, pilates, spinning, padel and more.
• Discounts through partnerships: Through Benefits at Work you get discounts at Center Parcs, Zalando, bol.com, Krëfel, Decathlon and many more.
• Fun and relaxation: You will regularly be invited to one of the many afterworks and other fun activities. Each team also gets a team building budget – it's up to you how you spend it!