Third Party Management Process Automation, Data & Reporting, Specialist

About Northern Trust As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions. Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure:
Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide. With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

The Global Procurement Specialist, Data Governance is responsible for supporting the governance, quality, integrity, and effective management of data across the Global Procurement organization. This role will help establish and maintain data governance standards, controls, ownership, and processes to ensure procurement data is accurate, consistent, complete, and fit for business, regulatory, and management reporting purposes.

Working across Procurement, Technology, Risk, Finance, and other key stakeholders, the Specialist will help strengthen the procurement data governance framework, improve data quality, and support a more disciplined, data-driven Procurement operating model.

Major Duties:

Data Governance & Controls Support the development and execution of the Global Procurement Data Governance framework, including data standards, policies, controls, ownership, and accountability.

Maintain clear definitions for critical procurement data elements, including data owners, data stewards, sources, and business rules.

Help establish and maintain procurement data dictionaries, taxonomies, metadata, and classification standards.

Monitor compliance with established data governance requirements and identify opportunities to strengthen controls.

Support governance forums and routines focused on procurement data quality, ownership, remediation, and continuous improvement.

Data Quality & Integrity Monitor procurement data for accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and integrity across systems and processes.

Identify data quality issues, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate remediation with business and technology stakeholders.

Develop and maintain data quality metrics, scorecards, exception reporting, and remediation tracking.

Support reconciliation and validation activities across procurement systems, reporting platforms, and downstream data consumers.

Identify recurring data issues and recommend sustainable process or control improvements.

Stakeholder Partnership Collaborate with Procurement category teams, Procurement Operations, Technology, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and other data stakeholders.

Promote awareness and adoption of data governance standards and data ownership responsibilities.

Translate technical data issues into clear business impacts, actions, and recommendations.

Support training and communications to build greater data literacy and accountability across Procurement.

Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Data Management, Information Systems, Analytics, or a related field.

Experience in data governance, data management, procurement operations, business analytics, reporting, risk/control, or a related discipline.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with demonstrated attention to data accuracy and detail.

Experience working with large datasets and identifying, analyzing, and resolving data quality issues.

Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and…