12 months
Phone and skype
Onsite : Cincinnati, OH( Need local candidate only )
Job Title: Data Management Leader
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement a Data Governance framework for the Department in coordination with the Company’s Data Governance Team.
- Maintain effective working relationships with cross functional business leaders, stakeholders, end users, and partners to integrate programs into overall strategic objectives aligned with data policies and processes.
- Oversee and engage with data domain and data owners across multiple functions for data tagging, establishing metrics, and approvals, promoting adoption of Governance process.
- Develop and execute a strategy for measuring business performance metrics for data quality (completeness and accuracy).
- Ensure data management process is effective to drive architecture, instance, integration, MBE and security requirements.
- Connect and improve data flow down from contract initiation to shop, product line, and key stakeholders across the enterprise.
- Support mapping and design of process flows across functions and key users as necessary to support objectives.
- Understand and evaluate business processes, enabling the successful translation of business needs into data requirements.
- Participate in development of master data management strategies, implementation roadmaps and business cases.
- Help establish and define important critical data elements, metadata rules for use, format, and lineage.
- Support building and governing master data guidelines, data standards, and data dictionaries.
- Lead implementation, and ongoing management of attribute naming conventions, industry/trade standardization, and categorizations.
- Develop, deploy, and monitor policies and processes established for managing master data within the Department and with Company’s source systems, automated and manual processes.
- Promote Lean mindset as it pertains to the team’s operational effectiveness and opportunities to continuously improve the master process across the business.
- Mentor, coach and develop contract master data stewards and operations team members on data management best practices and information quality standards.
- Develop master data team member goals and measurement strategy that aligns team members' work to operational processes (SLA’s), data quality, and enterprise data management goals.
- Drive business process change (simplification) by influencing cross functional departments.
- Lead with a hands-on approach – drive accountability to continuously improve enterprise standards, and grow the team's capability set from both depth and breadth perspective.
- Facilitate engagement with departments and leaders to train and educate the use and adoption of data management.
- Improve trust in contract critical data elements by defining and improving data quality.
- Effectively communicate and manage escalations to senior leadership.
- Ensure conformance to all applicable Company’s standards, policies, and guidelines.
Required Characteristics:
- Bachelor’s Degree, 10 + years’ experience in business management, Master Data Management, Data Governance and/or Enterprise Data Management.
- 10+ years managing cross functional teams.
- Experience standing up or maintaining data governance program
- Demonstrated lean / continuous improvement experience and mindset.
- Technology experience in data management, MDM, and data quality technologies.
- History working with large datasets, metadata management, and data models.
- Experience with business operations and B2B.
- Models’ humility, transparency, and focus.
Desired Characteristics:
- Passionate about driving change and influence transformational change.
- Experience directly managing individuals or managers.
- Demonstrated ability to lead in a highly matrixed environment.
- Ability to work with cross functional teams to drive operationalizing contract data products
- Hands on experience in solving challenges for master data management, data quality problems or complex data integrations.
- Key understanding of the importance of change management in the implementation of data and information management strategies.
- Excellent collaboration, communication, and leadership skills.
- Experience working across multiple functions and with global resources.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver large scale programs.