Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Data Transformation

• Lead the development, implementation, and scaling of core data management capabilities, including data quality, metadata, master and reference data, content and document management, and data storage and operations.
• Coordinate delivery of data management activities across business, technology, legal, compliance, and regional teams to ensure consistent standards, controls, and ways of working.
• Embed data management into major technology and business programmes such as ERP, analytics, and digital services, ensuring data requirements, risks, and dependencies are fully addressed.
• Establish and maintain data governance processes, including forums, decision-making structures, and minimum control standards to ensure compliance and accountability.
• Build and lead multidisciplinary teams responsible for delivering data management improvements, including programme management, analysis, and change enablement.
• Develop and implement the long-term operating model for enterprise data management, defining data roles, responsibilities, workflows, and capability uplift across the organisation.
• Oversee adoption of data management tools and platforms, enabling greater operational efficiency, improved data quality, and consistent data practices across regions and functions.
• Partner with architecture and technology leaders to define future-state operational and analytical data models, ensuring alignment with broader transformation strategies and strategic priorities.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Lead the development, implementation, and scaling of core data management capabilities, including data quality, metadata, master and reference data, content and document management, and data storage and operations.
• Coordinate delivery of data management activities across business, technology, legal, compliance, and regional teams to ensure consistent standards, controls, and ways of working.
• Embed data management into major technology and business programmes such as ERP, analytics, and digital services, ensuring data requirements, risks, and dependencies are fully addressed.
• Establish and maintain data governance processes, including forums, decision-making structures, and minimum control standards to ensure compliance and accountability.
• Build and lead multidisciplinary teams responsible for delivering data management improvements, including programme management, analysis, and change enablement.
• Develop and implement the long-term operating model for enterprise data management, defining data roles, responsibilities, workflows, and capability uplift across the organisation.
• Oversee adoption of data management tools and platforms, enabling greater operational efficiency, improved data quality, and consistent data practices across regions and functions.
• Partner with architecture and technology leaders to define future-state operational and analytical data models, ensuring alignment with broader transformation strategies and strategic priorities.

As Head of Enterprise Data Transformation, you’ll lead the enterprise-wide transformation needed to strengthen Brambles’ data management capability and establish trusted data as a genuine strategic business asset.

You’ll be here to drive the transformation, not simply inherit BAU. You’ll mobilise the programme, create momentum and bring the delivery discipline, adoption and change needed to build a sustainable capability, before transitioning long-term ownership into the appropriate business, governance and capability teams.

You’ll bring together Technology Services, Digital, Enterprise Data Management, Data Governance, ERP/Simplify, Global Process Owners, Global Process Leads and business leaders around one…