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Senior Director, Data Governance
Location
United States
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$178.5K - $210K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Director, Data Governance
Cushman & Wakefield
• Define and operationalize the company's approach to governing, managing, and trusting data across every business line and region • Build and implement the global data governance strategy, operating model, policies, standards, and KPIs • Establish enterprise practices for data management, data modeling, and master data management • Stand up and operate a data certification program that defines what makes data trustworthy • Lead the change management approach for governance, including communications, training, role definition, and adoption tracking • Partner with business and technology leaders to embed governance into day-to-day workflows • Identify governance, data quality, and compliance risks proactively and drive them to resolution
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Significant experience leading data governance at scale
- Strong technical foundation in data governance, including hands-on or close-in experience with data modeling, data management, MDM, data certification, and data compliance
- Demonstrated success building and operating data governance, stewardship, and compliance programs that delivered measurable outcomes
- Proven change management capability, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive durable behavioral and operational change across complex organizations
Benefits
- health, vision, and dental insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance programs
- paid and unpaid time away from work
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