Manager, Data Governance

Greif offers a great working environment and the opportunity to make an immediate impact at a company where your ideas are always welcome.

Job Requisition # :

026991 Manager, Data Governance (Open)

Job Description :

Greif is a leading supplier of industrial packaging products and services, growing from its beginnings in Cleveland, Ohio, to a global footprint across more than 35 countries and 200-plus locations.

OUR VISION :

Be the best performing customer service company in the world.

OUR PURPOSE :

We create packaging solutions for life’s essentials.

ROLE OVERVIEW :

As the Data Governance Manager, you will lead organization-wide initiatives aimed at enhancing the consistency and accuracy of critical data.

Your primary focus will be on establishing and enforcing a robust governance framework for data policies, standards, and practices, ensuring alignment with business objectives and driving the desired level of data consistency and quality across the organization.

Key Responsibilities :

• Establish and rollout an enterprise-wide data governance framework, with a focus on improving data quality & creating / upgrading existing organizational policies and standards, governance metrics, processes, & related tools
• Engage with business users, data owners and stake holders globally to implement data management program enabling them to manage data efficiently and consistently with high quality.
• Oversee operations of cross functional teams & engage with data owners to adhere to and maintain the master data governance processes.
• Determines key data and data attributes such as customers, suppliers, products, chart of accounts that need to be harmonized within a system and across multiple systems.
• Participate in data migration activities to ensure compliance of data governance processes during data cleansing, data creation, data conversion, issue resolution, and data validation.
• Establish and maintain the enterprise business glossary, data security and data privacy.
• Define roles and responsibilities related to data governance and ensure clear accountability for stewardship of the company's principal information assets.
• Create and manage a central process to capture, prioritize and manage data remediation efforts across the organization.
• Define data management metrics, reporting protocols, and action plans.
• Coach / support business in data quality control through mentorship
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience :

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Data Analytics or equivalent
• 5+ years’ experience leading data management and data governance program with direct reports
• Experience in and knowledge of business functions such as Finance, Commercial, Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement and Manufacturing
• Manufacturing industry experience is preferred.

Knowledge and Skills :

• Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills with ability to effectively communicate with senior management.
• Strong interpersonal and motivational skills
• Ability to work within a team environment using consensus building to achieve a desired result.
• Consistently exhibits a positive, can-do attitude.

At Greif , your work has purpose, colleagues care about your well-being, and you have the opportunity to grow and thrive.

Service and leadership are the core of everything we do. Our global presence provides us a platform to do good in the world.

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