Data Governance Manager

 

 

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Data Governance Manager

 

Purpose:

 

The Data Governance Manager has a key role in leading and managing all organization-wide data governance activities aligned with the Data Strategy journey. The position will focus on establishing and ensuring adherence to an enterprise data governance and data quality framework for data policies, standards, and practices, both at the department and Business and Functional areas level, to achieve the required level of consistency, quality, and protection to meet overall business strategy needs.

The Data Governance Manager serves as the global point of contact for governance, data quality, and protection issues and will work closely with Business and GBS stakeholders to improve the quality and value of core data assets enabling the journey to a data-driven company.

 

 

 Responsibilities:

 

Data Governance Strategy and Framework:

 

• Establish and govern an enterprise data governance implementation roadmap including strategic priorities for the development of the data-driven organization
• Roll out an enterprise-wide Data Governance framework, with a focus on the improvement of data quality and providing data business services through modifications to organization behavior policies  and standards, principles, governance metrics, processes, related tools, and data architecture
• Lead Data Governance committees, comprising resources from the Business and Functional areas and IT business and operations functions, to achieve their objectives; resolve issues escalated from Business and Functional areas data governance representatives

 

Governance Standards, Policies and Procedures:

 

• Develop standards, policies, and procedures to support the creation and implementation of data governance policies within the business.
  Facilitate the development and implementation of Data Quality standards, Data Governance playbooks, and data-centric culture adoption across the enterprise, focusing on business units and market adoption
• Define indicators of performance and quality metrics and ensure compliance with data-related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements
• Define roles and responsibilities related to Data Governance and ensure clear accountability for stewardship of the company’s principal data assets through federated operational model implementation

 

Market Knowledge:

 

• Will stay informed of what data governance best practices are available and will research suppliers and markets,  to identify new business opportunities pertaining to the use of data assets to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in the business processes / represent data as a strategic business asset at the Senior Management Table
• Facilitate Data Governance solutions evaluation from technical and functional sides for Data Governance initiatives and other enterprise projects according to the industry standards and cutting-edge technologies

 

Communication and Collaboration:

 

• Collaborate with leadership across the organization to identify business needs and implement Data Governance and Data Stewardship capabilities
• Engage a network of business/IT stakeholders and manage relations between them and the central Data & Analytics team where there will be influence but not authority
• Serve as a liaison betwe