Data Governance and Stewardship Manager

Our Client operates in the Food Processing Industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in the United States. It has its branches spread to more than 200 countries, providing employment to more than 3,00,000 people all over the world. They fall in the Fortune 500 Companies. Their core business is to manufacture, market, distribute and sell consumer staple products.

Role Description:

• The Data Governance Data Steward role is responsible for ensuring the business and IT adhere to and maintain alignment to the Enterprise Data Governance's processes, rules and standards for in scope data.
• This role requires deep knowledge of the data requirements and business use as well as associated elements and processes involved.
• This will be achieved through the EDG Data Steward operating as the single point of contact for those creating and consuming data within their respected data domain(s).
• Additionally, they will be interacting directly with key domain and project stakeholders, the EDG Lead, Governance Council, other data stewards across the organization and relevant SMEs throughout the organization as necessary.
• This position reports to the EDG Lead and collaborates / advises with companys Governance Council, of which they are accountable for the success of companys EDG program.

Responsibilities:

• Execute standard policy for onboarding data into companys environments globally.
• Work with Data Ecosystem team to manage data standards and ensure adherence.
• Work with internal Sustainability and Employee data and external 2nd and 3rd party data providers to ensure data on-boarding follows standardized process; continue to refine process as needed.
• Responsible in the promotion of data accuracy and adherence to companys defined data management and governance practices, as well as driving acceptance of companys enterprise data standards and policies across the various business segments and areas that utilize (formally and informally) enterprise data and information.
• Maintain and advise relevant stakeholders as appropriate on data governance related matters.
• Create and distribute recommendations and supporting documentation for new or proposed data standards, business rules and policy.
• Coordinate across the organization (with fellow Enterprise Data Stewards and the EDG leader; strategic initiatives, Digital Use Cases and the federated data network) in order to maintain consistency of company's critical enterprise, digital, operational and analytical data.
• Accountable for ensuring that data-centric activities are aligned with the EDG program and leverage applicable data standards, governance processes, and overall best practices.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience working in Data Governance or Data Management experience preferably within a global CPG (Consumer Packaged Good) company.
• Strong data management background and understanding of data, how to ingest data, proper data use/consumption, data quality, and stewardship.
• 5+ years of experience working with Sustainability, Employee and/or External data, associated processes, involved systems and data usage.
• Ability to partner with both business and technical subject matter experts to ensure standardization of operational information and execution of enterprise-wide data governance policies and procedures are defined and implemented.
• Informatica (EDC, Axon, IDQ), Intermediate to advanced Excel experience preferred.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of Sustainability and Employee Data Assets and master data elements, and processes for onboarding and using 2nd and 3rd party data.
• Strong Communication Skills/Able to Persuade/Influence Others at all Organization Levels and the ability foster lasting partnerships.
• Ability to translate business requirements into critical data dependencies and requirements ability to think beyond their current state (processes, roles and tools) and work towards an unconstrained, optimized design.
• Demonstrated proficiency with using Excel to source, analyze, normalize and process data to define requirements for ongoing processing and management of the data including quality validations.
• An ability to solicit followership from the functional teams to think beyond the "way the things work today".
• Able to align various stakeholders to a common set of standards and the ability to sell the benefits of the EDG program.
• Foster lasting relationships across varying organizational levels and business segments with the maturity to interface with all levels of management.
• Self-starter who welcomes responsibility, along with the ability to thrive in an evolving organization and an ability to bring structure to unstructured situations.
• Ability to arbitrate on difficult decisions and drive consensus through a diplomatic approach.
• Matrix management skills and business acumen.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Intermediate Excel Skill.