You’ll collaborate closely with IT, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and business leaders all over the world to establish clear governance frameworks, policies, and standards. As we scale and digitize further, your impact will be visible across everything from operational efficiency to customer experience

Key responsibilities:

• Data Governance Ownership: Act as a subject matter expert in data governance, providing strategic guidance and promoting best practices across the entire data lifecycle, globally.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with internal stakeholders to drive the adoption of governance policies and manage structured change processes, ensuring clear accountability and ownership.
• Drive projects and process improvement activities to implement and improve our global Data Governance Framework.
• Consistency and Compliance: Lead regular data governance reviews to ensure consistency, system alignment, and adherence to governance standards.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure data governance policies comply with applicable regulations (e.g., GDPR, PCAOB, SOX). Track and manage program metrics, risks, issues, and corrective actions to ensure timely delivery and desired outcomes.
• Establish Governance Frameworks: Develop and implement data governance policies, standards, and procedures to ensure data quality, security, and compliance.

Essential requirements:

• Completed studies in information technologies, mathematics or computer science or a related discipline 
• > 5 years of experience in data management, data governance or a related field within an international matrix organization.
• Ability to lead execution of complex projects delivering within defined deadlines and budgets and solid knowledge of ERP-Systems (e.g. SAP, MSDynamics, …)
• Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with cross-functional teams to promote data governance awareness, encourage ownership, and align efforts with business goals.
• Compliance Monitoring: Conduct regular audits and governance reviews, monitor KPIs/metrics, and report on the status of compliance and quality initiatives.
• Culture Building: Deliver training and guidance to foster a data-literate, governance-aware culture across the organization.
• Deep understanding of data governance frameworks and best practices (e.g., DAMA-DMBOK).
• Proactive “self-starter” with a "can do" attitude and "hands on" mentality.
• Being an effective communicator, with ability to interpret and clearly convey information, deliver concise recommendations and interact with a wide range of stakeholders at various levels, including senior management, and other teams.
• Experience in leading transformations and navigating ambiguity with a positive, solution-oriented mindset.