Title:Sr. Manager Data Governance
Location: Richardson, TX Hybrid 
Duration: 6 months → possibility of FTE conversion  yes 


JOB SUMMARY 

This position incubates and establishes a leading-edge global Data Governance function to support  business segments, corporate functions and the Digital & Technology stakeholders. The responsibility includes 

• Liaise directly with  clients and account teams to provide strategic direction on implementation of data governance programs, best practices, adoption of standards, mast data management, and data quality improvement while leveraging leading-edge data governance tools and technology.   
• Collaborate with and manage highly performing data governance and data management professionals that support occupier clients and account teams.  
• Provide support on data strategy execution in the adoption of  data products including enterprise data platform that provides game-changing analytics in the CRE industry.  
• Serve as the data governance champion of strategic data products and supporting metadata and reference data.  
• Implement and support data ownership and stewardship programs for stakeholders across the business to ensure that account teams adopt improved data governance and management practices.    

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Participate in the strategy, planning, and execution for Enterprise Data Governance at, focusing on Building Operations & Experience (BOE) business segment. Ensure the company has urgency, sensitivity and thought leadership for competitive capabilities around data.  
• Demonstrated leadership experience in a large, complex, global organization, including the ability to effectively work and communicate across organizational lines. Ensure business stakeholder understanding, alignment and commitment to the objectives of the data governance and management program(s). Be the champion and evangelist for data, the business value, and the potential innovations. Be the trusted advisor to senior leadership and peers. 
• Demonstrated experience in building relationships and leading high-performing teams with top talents around the world. Build a high performance environment and execute a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment, communicating vision/ values/ business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team. 
• Collaborate with partners across business segments/ business lines, regions and accounts to develop consistent data governance capabilities at all levels, influencing decisions relating to policy, practices, supporting technology, and talent development. 
• Establish leading data management practices and shared services relating to data quality, data provisioning, metadata, lineage, reference data, issue management and change management. 
• Implement data governance as commodity services that could be leveraged by various clients in different industries. Understand clients’ appetite and risk culture in day-to-day support activities and decision-making. 
• Establish account team data governance programs.  Define data domains and implement business oversight via essential data governance organizations and RACI (i.e. central data governance function, Data Ownership and Stewardship Program, etc.).  Establish data standards, policies and controls. Design and implement the framework, including associated processes, necessary to sustain a data control environment. Monitoring compliance with data policies and standards 
• Establish account team and cross-account data quality framework necessary to enable data quality reporting, issue identification, remediation and tracking, ultimately ensuring trust and confidence in data across domains. 
• Guide the client accounts to adopt the strategic data products including existing account migrations and new account transitions. Manage data to support  and its clients’ business intelligence and scale appropriately with business growth. 
• Experience in leading and driving leading-edge data innovation initiatives including big data, cloud computing, IoT, data virtualization and federation, etc., is a plus. 
• Create and implement strategic approaches, plans, timelines, preparation of business cases to ensure expedited handling of client data protection, and other data compliance and security requirements. 
• Develop and implement metrics needed to monitor/ report on data governance and data management progress 
• Develop communication approaches and change management strategies; determines presentation focus and emphasis and prepares board-level presentations. 
• Performs other duties as assigned. 

 

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Manages the planning, organization, and controls for a major functional area or department. Position will be responsible for managing direct reports across the Americas region and working with peers across all regions, requiring flexibility in schedule.  May also be responsible for matrix reports. This position requires subordinates’ recommendations for staff recruitment, selection, promotion, advancement, corrective action and termination. Effectively recommends same for direct reports to next level management for review and approval. Monitors appropriate staffing levels and reports on utilization and deployment of human resources. Leads and supports staff in areas of staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance and retention. Leads by example and models behaviors that are consistent with the company's values. 

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

 

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE 

Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university and a minimum of eight years of related experience and/or training, including five years of experience at the management level. 

• 5 or more years of progressively responsible management positions in complex organizations required. Demonstrated success with high visibility projects, leaders in technology use and development, change management, budget and business case development and staff development. 
• 5 or more years of related experience in related industry; commercial real estate management preferred. 
• 7 or more years of data management related experience such as data analysis, data governance, enterprise information management, data modeling, and data quality management. analytics experience desired, i.e., data visualization, data analytics, data mining, business intelligence, etc. 
• Candidates must have experience working in large organizations with geographically dispersed teams and complex technical environments. 
• Experience in dealing with internal and external customers, service providers and vendors. Must be able to manage competing priorities. Needs to be resilient; resolving conflicts quickly to achieve desired business results. 
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• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Information Management, MIS, Business Intelligence and Data Science, Library Science, Computer Science or related fields; advanced degree preferred. 

 

CERTIFICATES and/or LICENSES 

None 

 

 

COMMUNICATION SKILLS 

• Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret the most complex business documents. Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive issues. Ability to write reports, manuals, speeches and articles using distinctive style. Ability to make effective and persuasive presentations on complex topics to employees, clients, top management and/or public groups. Ability to motivate and negotiate effectively with key employees, top management, and client groups to take desired action. 
• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence in the overall information and analytics space 
• Excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills. Strong negotiation and group facilitation skills; ability to move a process forward, while meeting the needs of a variety of clients. 
• Excellent collaboration, influence and leadership skills. Ability to work with various levels of peers including analysts, developers and executives regarding complex business and data related issues. 
• Relationship management skills that include excellent listening and consultative capability, the ability to influence and negotiate with business and technology partners to drive change, and the ability to take a broad perspective and make key connections 

 

 

FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE 

• Requires basic knowledge of financial terms and principles.  
• Participates in complex financial/business analysis and report reviews prepared peers or leaders.  
• Manages to and oversees department budget. 

 

 

REASONING ABILITY 

• Ability to solve advanced problems and deal with a variety of options in complex situations. Requires expert level analytical and quantitative skills with proven experience in developing strategic solutions for a growing matrix-based environment. Draws upon the analysis of others and makes recommendations that have a direct impact on the company. 
  • Understanding of global organizational design and the ability to shape and drive large-scale, cross-functional programs around people, technology, processes, and tools. 
  • Demonstrated ability to balance long-term strategy with quick wins. 
  • Demonstrated ability for strategic influencing and education of cross-functional stakeholders about the strategic importance and value of data governance 
  • Excellent managerial skills; collaborative, imaginative, resourceful, reliable, technically savvy. 
  • Superior analytical and creative problem-solving skills. Demonstrated successes in data analysis, drawing conclusions and improvement. Apply listening and consultative skills to understand business needs; be able to interpret requirements, identify impacts and analyze problems to determine impacts to business processes across the organization. 
  • Ability to work well under deadlines, ability to work in a multi-tasking production environment to make good judgments about competing priorities. 
  • Ability to tell a story to explain or sell a concept. 

 

 

OTHER SKILLS and/or ABILITIES 

• Utilizes an entrepreneurial approach and develops innovative solutions.   
• Ability to write business cases, process maps, presentation materials and articles using distinctive style. 
• Ability to make effective and persuasive presentations on complex topics across various levels of leadership 
• Expert level analytical and quantitative skills with proven experience in developing strategic solutions for a growing matrix-based multi-industry sales environment.  
• Ability to use strong conceptual and analytical skills to generate insights and recommendations.  
• Demonstrated information management and quantitative skills, including working knowledge of IT infrastructure, various technologies/ platforms, and aligned vendor solutions with enterprise strategic priorities. 
• Experience managing small to mid-size teams and delivering results. 
• Thorough knowledge of cutting-edge data management tools, industry advances, etc. 
• Superior project management/ consulting and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to facilitate complex, mission critical projects and to develop, participate in and guide multi-disciplinary work teams. Manage task timelines and deliverable schedules and share concerns about deliverables, timelines, and issues with Data Governance services or deliverables. 
• Superior ability to manage, manipulate and analyze raw data, draw conclusions, and develop actionable recommendations using technology. Articulate the issues and resolutions via business-friendly communications. Serve as primary day-to-day contact for regional data management issues. 
• Advanced understanding of data quality management. Knowledge of data governance and how it impacts business processes. 
• Knowledge of master data management in a global environment, including data lifecycle and maintenance processes. 
• Skills in MS Visio, Word and PowerPoint is a plus.  
• Experience with reference data management tools at  including Collibra, MS Excel, SQL query, etc., is a plus. 
• Software development lifecycle knowledge, with background in agile philosophies and  

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 63.00/hr.