Data Governance Lead

at  Abcam

For over 25 years, Abcam has been providing tools the scientific community needs to enable faster breakthroughs in critical areas like cancer, neurological disorders, infectious diseases, and metabolic disorders.
We believe that to continue making progress, we need to work together, each bringing our own unique perspectives to make an impact on the world. This community needs people like you: dedicated, agile and above all audacious so we can truly drive science forward.
The Data Governance Lead is responsible for defining, implementing and managing data governance frameworks, policies and standards. The role works on the design and implementation of practical data governance solutions leveraging the latest data technologies to support organizational needs, identifies opportunities and makes recommendations to improve the quality and trustworthiness of data throughout the organization.
This position reports to the Director of Data Management and is part of the Data & Analytics Department located in Cambridge, UK and will be a hybrid or fully remote role. At Abcam, our vision is to be the most influential life sciences company for researchers worldwide.

THE ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE JOB INCLUDE:

• A bachelor degree or higher in Business Administration (MBA), Computer Science, Information Systems or comparable
• 3 or more years of work experience in data governance, data management or process engineering
• Data analysis and supporting programming languages (eg. Excel, Python, SQL)
• Data visualization (eg. Tableau, PowerBI, Excel)
• Project management (agile and waterfall)

TRAVEL, MOTOR VEHICLE RECORD & PHYSICAL/ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS:

• The role is expected to travel 5% or less across the abcam sites (e.g. Europe, US, China)

IT WOULD BE A PLUS IF YOU ALSO POSSESS PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IN:

• Team leadership and developing talent
• orporate change management
  At Abcam, we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, hybrid working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement in which you can work part of the time at the Company location identified above and part of the time remotely from your home. Additional information about this hybrid work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Abcam can provide.
  Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
  For more information, visit www.danaher.com.
  At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

• Lead and develop high visibility projects together with the customer data governance team
• Drive customer data quality at abcam to enable analytics and artificial intelligence
• Design, enhance and implement data lifecycle processes
• Orchestrate companywide change management for customer data
• Manage and evolve the abcam data catalog and data glossaries