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 pre...