Manager - Data Operations and Reporting

Job Description

Key responsibilities

• Own and maintain taxonomy standards, data dictionaries, naming conventions, field definitions and guidance. • Manage change requests from intake and assessment through approval, implementation and closure. • Identify duplicate, conflicting or poorly defined values and protect taxonomy integrity. • Chair the governance forum, maintain decision records and escalate material or ambiguous issues. • Define compliance rules with data and reporting teams; review results and coordinate remediation. • Assess downstream impacts across planning, activation, creative workflows, data and reporting. • Confirm approved changes are implemented across relevant tools, datasets and reports. • Deliver practical guidance and training to improve adoption and correct usage. • Manage analysts or specialists, set priorities and assure work quality. • Use compliance trends and stakeholder feedback to improve governance processes.
• Experience and capabilities
• Essential • Experience in taxonomy, metadata, data governance, information management or data quality. • Strong understanding of naming conventions, controlled vocabularies, data dictionaries and classification structures. • Experience operating change-control, approval and governance processes. • Ability to analyse compliance issues and coordinate corrective action. • Strong stakeholder management across business and technical teams. • Clear documentation, facilitation and written communication skills. • Experience managing specialists, analysts or an operational workstream.