Data Governance Activation Manager

Colgate • Piscataway, NJ

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

As the Manager: Data Governance, you are the bridge between data policy and daily operations. Your mission is to move data governance from a set of theoretical guidelines into a living, breathing part of the company’s DNA. You will lead a data transformation program that instills data ownership, data stewardship, and key data governance disciplines, ensuring that business domains don't just "comply" with data rules but actually recognize their value on the path towards making CP’s data AI Ready. Without activation, data governance is just "shelf-ware." You are the catalyst that ensures the organization's data is trusted, discoverable, and usable, directly impacting the success of strategic AI and Analytics initiatives.

Requirements

• Completed Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of work experience in large data transformation programs focusing on data governance and data quality

Nice To Haves

• Proven ability to manage multiple business stakeholders, including effectively engaging and aligning with enterprise senior leadership to drive data governance initiatives and strategies in line with the overall organizational goals.
• Ability to influence without authority and drive change adoption for data governance framework, processes and supporting tools
• Ability to break down complex data concepts to non-technical stakeholders, with strong business acumen and domain knowledge (e.g. Customer Development/Sales) in CPG industry
• Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, coupled with a keen eye for detail and a commitment to delivering high quality data
• Experience with data catalog and data quality platform such as Atlan, BigID, Collibra, Informatica, Talend, SAP, DQLabs, Monte Carlo or a similar solution required
• Extensive knowledge of data management and data governance principles, implementations and latest industry trends.

Responsibilities

• Translate high-level data governance policies and standards into actionable processes and workflows for business and technical teams.
• Manage a network of Data Stewards across the organization, providing them with the tools and motivation to maintain high-quality data. Build out a community of practitioners to mature the data governance best practices.
• Drive adoption of a strategic intake process to identify data use cases that solve business challenges and articulate the resulting business values. Ensure each use case contains detailed business context along with high-level data requirements that can be mapped to potential data product priority and roadmap in collaboration with domain teams.
• Oversee the implementation and day-to-day use of various data governance solutions (i.e. Data Catalog, Data Quality/ Data Observability, Data Security, etc.) to ensure data is discoverable, trusted and secured as a "source of truth" rather than just a mere repository for documentation.
• Partner closely with cross functional teams to define and enforce the data standards, quality checks, and metadata enrichment necessary to produce trusted, clean, and scalable data products that will fuel CP’s most strategic AI and Analytics capabilities.
• Act as the primary advocate for a "Data-First" culture. This involves creating communication plans, training, and feedback loops to help the organization understand and adapt to key data governance concepts and overcome resistance. Collaborate with domain teams to embed data governance deliverables into data delivery efforts.
• Define and track "Activation KPIs"—going beyond just data quality scores to measure user adoption, metadata completeness, and the speed of data issue resolution, etc.
• Work closely with business and IT stakeholders, including domain and divisional business teams, analytics teams, data delivery teams, platform team and data privacy, legal and CISO team, to ensure data governance supports—rather than hinders—business agility.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• basic life insurance
• paid parental leave
• disability coverage
• participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements
• a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days
• 13 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager