Head of NPI & Data Governance
Listed on 2026-09-17
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Head of New Product Introduction & Data GovernanceLocation:
Manchester, ENG, GB, M2 3AA
London, ENG, GB, N1C 4AG
Corby, ENG, GB, NN17 5JF
Brand: RS
Work Location:
Hybrid
Location: This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from any of our UK Offices (Manchester, Corby or London Kings Cross)
Contract Type: Permanent
The Opportunity
Managing a team of 20 NPI and data governance professionals across our UK and Riga Offices, the Head of NPI and Data Governance will provide strategic and operational oversight to:
Ensure supplier data is onboarded efficiently, and advise and lead the business in it's cross-functional system, process and data model requirements, with a continuous improvement mindset, to increase product speed to market and product growth capability.
What You Will Be Doing
- Leading business transformation to deliver improved Supplier product onboarding using digital technology to create advanced automated product introduction processes
- Proactively manage the product lifecycle process from product introduction through to discontinuation
- Responsible for data governance and delivery of accurate product data to protect customers and minimise business risk. The product data created supports all channels to market to aid customer research and buying decisions
- Introducing appropriate levels of automation and digital solutions to enable scalable growth of the RS product range whilst reducing the cost to serve
- Reduce the time to market
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