Vice President, Enterprise Data Governance & Analytics

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Become a member of a global community! The international logistics industry is an integral piece of the global trade puzzle; we make the world go round. Global supply chain management is what we do, and at the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics. Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

As a Fortune 500 company, we employ over 19,000 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 350 locations across six continents. Expeditors satisfies the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems.

Our Mission

We recruit, train, and retain the very best logistics and technical experts the world over.
We love to promote from within – more than 50 percent of our employees have been at Expeditors for five years or more. Our high retention rate is influenced by a unique compensation program for positions that are more than just jobs – they’re chances to grow, do what you love and build a career with us!

Job Description Position Summary

The Vice President of Enterprise Data Governance & Analytics is a new role at Expeditors that will be responsible for establishing, leading, and scaling Expeditors’ Enterprise Data Governance and Analytics functions. This role ensures our data is trusted, meets the needs of our business, and is strategically leveraged to create value and insights across all products, services, and business units.

This leader will partner with Business Stakeholders and Global Technology to activate and execute on the company’s Data Strategy—aligning people, process, and technology for cross-functional enablement to govern, build, sustain, and utilize data in service of strategic goals of customer service, innovation, and sustainable growth.

This role is essential to ensuring the success of our core‑system modernization, which depends on high‑quality, well‑governed data. The VP will work closely with our Global Technology Leadership, and upstream process area owners across our organization to confirm that accurate, governed, AI and modernization‑ready data is in place before any transition occurs. This includes identifying and driving necessary operational and process changes to ensure data quality is established at the source.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Alignment
• Serve as the business-aligned leader to execute on Expeditors’ Data Strategy, ensuring clear alignment with company strategy, technology roadmaps, and organizational priorities.
• Build strong partnerships with Product and Service, Business Development, Global Technology, Finance and Accounting, Legal, and Compliance Leaders to ensure data governance and analytics efforts meet operational, customer, and strategic goals.
• Partner with Global Technology leaders to create measurable multiyear strategic plans, operating structures, management systems, and investment priorities.
• Partner with Business Stakeholders to ensure data capabilities directly support business outcomes.
• Champion data readiness as a prerequisite for successful system modernization and AI enablement, ensuring that governance and data quality standards are embedded into all modernization and AI enablement planning and decision-making.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Expeditors’ senior leadership team on data, analytics, data-related AI readiness and digital transformation topics.
• Enterprise Data Governance
• Lead the Enterprise Data Governance team to build and maintain a comprehensive Data Governance framework, including policies, standards, data stewardship roles, data lifecycle management, and accountability models for all non-financial data.
• Ensure governance structures scale across global geographic regions, products, and business units to ensure data accuracy, completeness, lineage, fidelity, and fitness for purpose.
• Partner with Data Security, Legal, and Compliance on data privacy, data residency, regulatory requirements, and access controls.
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