A data manager is a professional responsible for organizing, maintaining, and safeguarding an organization’s data so it remains accurate, accessible, and secure. The role focuses on overseeing data collection, storage, validation, and usage across systems, ensuring that information supports business operations, analytics, and decision-making. Data managers define data standards, manage databases and data pipelines, enforce governance and compliance (such as GDPR or HIPAA), and coordinate with IT, analysts, and stakeholders to improve data quality and consistency.

A data engineer is a technology professional who specializes in data engineering, the discipline of designing, building, and maintaining the data systems that power modern organizations. Their main responsibility is to develop and optimize data pipelines that move information from multiple sources into databases, warehouses, or cloud platforms, ensuring it is clean, reliable, and accessible. Data engineers also manage data processing at scale, handling both real-time and batch workflows to support analytics, business intelligence, and machine learning applications. Unlike data scientists, who focus on analyzing and modeling, data engineers create the infrastructure that makes advanced analysis possible. By combining programming skills, database expertise, and knowledge of cloud computing, they enable companies to transform raw information into actionable insights. In today’s data-driven economy, the role of a data engineer is essential for organizations that need to make informed, evidence-based decisions and build scalable digital solutions.

AREAS France, one of the leaders in concession catering in the travel world, has embarked on an ambitious cultural transformation. To meet the challenges of recruiting and retaining talent in a rapidly changing sector, and more broadly to support its "Vision 2029" transformation plan, the company has co-built with emlyon business school a vast custom program to train more than 300 managers. Professionals from a variety of backgrounds, from the Group's various sites and headquarters. Interview with Henry Mottet, HR Director of AREAS France and emlyon's custom program director.

MSc in Sports, Entertainment & Lifestyle

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Master in Management - Grande Ecole

Maria Ghorayeb

Maria Ghorayeb is a-21 year old Master in Management – Grande Ecole student from Lebanon. She has lived her whole life in different countries such as Thailand, India, Lebanon, and Sweden… After graduated from the American University of Beirut with a Bachelor of Business Administration, she decided to join emlyon business school. Discover her experience in the school and the city of Lyon.