Senior Manager, Data Management at Rainforest Alliance

RESPONSIBILITIES:   

Create and embed robust foundations of data governance, ethics and quality across the organisation, to ensure data product credibility and optimal value generation.

Overall responsible for the following topic areas and deliverables (this list is not extensive and can be evolved):

• Define and drive the roadmap of the Data Management function
• Provide leadership and oversight of the data management program and operational model.
• Drive organisational change, attitude shift, communication and continuous education of business stakeholders on the value of data governance.
• Build partnerships across function and other departments to ensure the frameworks and standards developed within this team are understood and adhered to.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while bringing up only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Lead the implementation of the newly selected Data Catalogue tool
• Ensure delivery within the Data Management team:
  • Lead finalization and implementation of the data governance framework within the business, onboard and train data owners and data stewards.
  • Define, document and deploy data standards within complex projects and overall data management.
  • Identify data quality rules that will be embedded across the data domains and provide requirements for the build of data quality solutions and reports. Implement early warning system so intervening actions can be identified. Create a rating system to create a common understanding of data quality levels.
  • Ensure that data processes are established and integrated into initiatives across the organization, establishing this team as key members of initiative set up.
  • Deliver training on data standards and data quality monitoring across the organization.
  • Lead the Data Sharing Policy, for the new Rainforest Alliance certification, which indicates which data can be shared externally.

QUALIFICATIONS:   

• Master's degree in Data Sciences, Business Administration, or related field;
• Minimum 7 years professional work experience to include:
  • Experience setting up, working with, and implementing Data Governance Framework (required)
  • Experience with Master Data Management (required)
  • Experience with data catalogues (required)
  • Experience with data classification (required)
  • Experience with data quality frameworks (desired)
  • Experience with GDPR (desired)
• Demonstrated ability (5 years’) in people management; including coaching, mentoring and developing team members;
• Excellent influencing and facilitation skills with a proven ability to convene and reconcile different stakeholder interests and influence towards a common vision/plan; 
• Expertise in data governance and affiliated topics, with experience landing this successfully within an organization;
• Solid understanding of market standards and innovations within this space;
• Strategic mindset but with a hands on mentality;
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively, culturally, linguistically, and diplomatically laterally and vertically;  
• Self-motivated, creative and results-oriented 
• Be a problem solver, identifying underlying challenges and work proactively and collaboratively to solve them;
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written, with good communication skills; and
• Ability to travel a maximum of 20% per year, nationally and internationally.