Job Description

As data governance manager you will plan, monitor and enforce the management of data assets.

In this role, you will:

• catalogue, monitor and identify data assets that are essential to the organization’s operations or services
• assign ownership of data, ensuring there is a clear RACI (responsible, accountable, consulted and informed) matrix in the organization outlining all data stewards
• incorporate governance of data into routine processes
• support or manage risk processes around data
• advocate for better use and management of data within the organization
• encourage better data literacy within the organization
• Ensure the quality of the data in our corporate data warehouse
• Train report authors about the structure of this data so they can create their own analysis based on these data sets
• Manage third party data loads from external 3rd parties to ensure correct compensation modelling can be conducted

Skills required

You will need the following skills for this role.

• Communicating analysis and insight. Be able to tell compelling data stories utilizing data visualization that can lead to insight and understanding.
• Communicating between the technical and non-technical. You can communicate effectively across organizational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context. You can make complex and technical information and language simple and accessible for non-technical audiences. You can advocate on behalf of a team and communicate what it does, to create trust and authenticity. You can successfully respond to challenges.
• Data governance. You can explain the theory and standard methodology of data governance, how to apply these efficiently and the practical considerations. You can explain how data governance relates to other elements of organizational governance. You can implement data governance frameworks and operating models, including data ownership, measurement, operational policies, standards and compliance. You can assign data governance roles and responsibilities (including risk management) and support the improvement of relevant skills. You can provide recommendations about investments in technologies that support the organization’s objectives.
• Data innovation. You can explore new, more efficient and effective ways of deriving value from data. You can optimize and design data to support business opportunities.
• Data life cycle. You can understand and operationalize governance across the data life cycle. You can review compliance or performance against the data life cycle, assess data quality, and log and triage data issues for resolution. You can clearly explain the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders across the data life cycle.
• Data literacy improvement. You can communicate why data is so important and can raise awareness and establish a foundational level of data literacy across the organization through principles, practices and programs. You can develop strategies to create behavioral changes across the organization, making sure that data is valued and handled as an asset, and the risks are well understood.
• Data management. You can understand data sources, data organization and storage.
• Data regulation and ethics. You can understand all aspects of data governance and use, ensuring these are maintained in-line with legislation, regulations and ethical requirements. You can work effectively with subject matter experts to apply relevant data and ethical frameworks and standards to your work. You can monitor the landscape for new thinking and best practice in data management and data ethics.
• Data standards. You can demonstrate a deep understanding of best practice data policies, processes and standards. You can communicate the organizational benefit of data standards, and champion and govern these standards across the organization.
• Stakeholder relationship management. You can identify, analyze, manage and monitor relationships with and between stakeholders. You can communicate with stakeholders clearly and regularly, clarifying mutual needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of impacts, while concentrating on user needs.
• Strategic thinking. You can take an overall perspective on business issues, events and activities, and discuss their wider implications and long-term impact. You can determine patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision

Education/ Experience:

• Requires BS/BA Preferably in Business or Data Science
• Minimum of 3 years proven experience in Data Governance/Data Science

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Compensation and Benefits

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards