Parenting products retailer expanding data infrastructure and international operations
Mamas & Papas is a 40-year-old UK-based parenting goods retailer with 50+ stores across the UK and Ireland, now building a new data platform on Microsoft Fabric while managing inventory and sales scaling across 30+ countries. The hiring surge is sales-led (40 of 59 open roles), but the active data-infrastructure projects—Fabric adoption, OneLake ingestion, governance frameworks—signal internal operational strain: supply-demand mismatches, inventory accuracy gaps, and fragmented systems that need integration into a centralized data lake.
Notable leadership hires: Marketing Director
Mamas & Papas designs and sells nursery furniture, pushchairs, clothing, toys, and parenting equipment through direct retail (stores, concessions, e-commerce) and international wholesale partnerships. Headquartered in Huddersfield, the company operates across the UK, Ireland, and 30+ countries via third-party distribution partners. The product portfolio spans design (Adobe Creative Cloud) and supply-chain operations (inventory, rota planning, stock optimization). Current growth priorities are international market expansion and meeting partner sales targets, underpinned by a data modernization effort to replace legacy Progress OpenEdge systems with Microsoft Fabric.
Core projects include a new Microsoft Fabric data platform, data ingestion into OneLake, a data governance framework, and international expansion initiatives (El Corte Inglés partnership, global marketing campaigns, international partner merchandising planning).
Huddersfield, United Kingdom. The company operates 50+ stores and concessions across the UK and Ireland, with trading presence in over 30 countries.
Current tools include Progress OpenEdge, Microsoft (Power BI, OneLake, SQL, DAX), Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), and Excel. The company is adopting Microsoft Fabric to replace legacy systems.
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