Data Governance Lead
Posted 23 hours 12 minutes ago by Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Permanent
Not Specified
Other
Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Job Description
Data Governance Lead - Drive Data Excellence for a Sustainable Future
We're working with a pioneering organisation that's been putting sustainability at the heart of business for over 30 years. Following a series of internal promotions, they're now looking for a Data Governance Lead, someone who thrives on leading people, improving processes, and bringing clarity and accuracy to one of the UK's largest data sets.
If you're highly organised, people-oriented, and love the challenge of streamlining and scaling operations. This is your chance to make a measurable impact in a values-led environment.
What you'll be doing:
This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll be guiding multiple global teams, ensuring they work seamlessly to enrich, maintain, and maximise the use of critical operational data.
We're working with a pioneering organisation that's been putting sustainability at the heart of business for over 30 years. Following a series of internal promotions, they're now looking for a Data Governance Lead, someone who thrives on leading people, improving processes, and bringing clarity and accuracy to one of the UK's largest data sets.
If you're highly organised, people-oriented, and love the challenge of streamlining and scaling operations. This is your chance to make a measurable impact in a values-led environment.
What you'll be doing:
This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll be guiding multiple global teams, ensuring they work seamlessly to enrich, maintain, and maximise the use of critical operational data.
- Leading cross-functional teams responsible for data quality, supplier engagement, operations, and reporting
- Creating a collaborative environment where continuous feedback and improvement are second nature
- Identifying and implementing better ways of working-from error reporting to data enrichment
- Coaching and motivating teams to hit productivity and quality goals
- Driving the accuracy and integrity of data across the business, while embedding best practices with wider teams
- Partnering with internal consulting teams to support project delivery (eg Packflow, benchmarking, forecasting
- Proven experience managing and developing teams, ideally across multiple geographies
- A hands-on approach to data you'll be confident working with large datasets and reporting tools
- Advanced Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, lookups)
- An eye for detail, a mindset for improvement, and a genuine interest in sustainability
- Hybrid working - 2 days per week in the office
- 10% annual bonus
- Enhanced annual leave
- Health & life insurance
- Wellbeing benefits - including gym membership + access to a wellbeing app
- 8% pension contribution