Senior Manager, Data Governance

The Data Governance (DG) Manager will be a strong leader who can drive and implement DG capabilities and processes across Sysco’s DG Organization with the goal of assuring highly available, high-quality data in the Sysco landscape. The DG Manager's role is to drive the creation and enforcement of data standards, policy directives, and processes across all data domains. The primary measures of success for the DG Manager are as follows:

• Ensure that the DG Organization meets deadlines for support of One Sysco Data initiatives; identify and resolve or escalates issues or roadblocks to the DG Leader
• Leverage knowledge of data systems and business usage of data to develop, refine, and implement achievable data governance goals
• Facilitate strong engagement of data stewards and data curators to ensure Sysco’s Data governance organization delivers measurable business value

Support the DG Leader by providing expert insight in data strategy planning, value realization mapping, roadmap development, and risk reporting and monitoring

Provide leadership for the following DG groups:

• Monitor DG Working Groups affiliated with OSD projects:
• Drive DG Working Groups outside of projects
• Develop the DG Council meeting agenda and materials
• Review, monitor and enforce data standards, data quality standards, and data governance policies in support of One Sysco Data and other future projects
• Lead overall DG operations by managing analyst staffing, intake, risks/issues, communications, and data steward engagement
• Monitors the program to identify significant/systemic trends requiring attention/remediation that could be in the following areas: data stewardship, data quality, governance, master data management, business metadata management, reference data management
• Drive delivery and implementation of data quality initiatives to ensure organizational goals are met and value is realized in the business

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management or related field (an equivalent combination of related education, training, and experience may be considered).
• Master's Degree in information technology or business administration field focused on information management or digital communications preferred.

• Minimum of 5 years of proven and progressive data governance/data management experience
• Expert knowledge of Data Governance, Data Quality, and Master Data Management concepts
• Understanding of Customer, Item (material) and Supplier (vendor) data domains highly preferred
• Knowledge of and experience of using a Data Governance tool highly preferred
• In-depth knowledge of project lifecycle management methodologies and best practices
• Active or recent lead in a Data Governance project
• Experience establishing data quality control and implementing data standards, data stewardship, metadata management, data lifecycle management, or data architecture management
• Minimum 3 years food service or related industry experience preferred
• Project management experience in both large and small-scale projects is an advantage
• Experience working in and knowledge of wholesale distribution is preferred
• Prior SQL development experience is preferred both building and troubleshooting SQL would be advantageous
• Strong experience in assigned functional area processes and procedures

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• SQL development experience is preferred both building and troubleshooting SQL would be ideal
• Knowledge of and experience of using a Data Governance tools (e.g. Informatica Axon, Collibra, etc.) highly preferred
• Superior written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills
• Superior organizational and prioritization…