Director, IT Enterprise Data Governance

Full time

IL Oak Brook

Information Technology

Director, IT Enterprise Data Governance

Tree House Foods is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of over 20 production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At Tree House Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families.

We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

Named one of America's Best Large Employers by Forbes Magazine, we are proud to live by a strong set of values and strive to "Engage and Delight - One Customer at a Time." Guided by our values
- Own It, Commit to Excellence, Be Agile, Speak Up, and Better Together. We are a diverse team driven by integrity, accountability, and a commitment to exceptional results. We embrace change, prioritize continuous learning, and foster collaboration, transparency, and healthy debate. Together, we set each other up for success to achieve enterprise-wide goals.

• Competitive compensation and benefits program with no waiting period - you're eligible from your first day!
• 401(k) program with 5% employer match and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll.
• Comprehensive paid time off opportunities, including immediate access to four weeks of vacation, five sick days, parental leave and 11 company holidays (including two floating holidays).
• Leaders who are invested in supporting your accelerated career growth, plus paid training, tuition reimbursement and a robust educational platform - DevelopU - with more than 10,000 free courses to support you along the way.
• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of professionals. Take advantage of opportunities to build on our team-oriented culture, such as joining one of our Employee Resource Groups.
• Access to our wellness and employee assistance programs.

The Director, IT Enterprise Data Governance provides enterprise leadership in advancing data governance, quality, connectivity, and business process improvement across Tree House Foods. Working at the intersection of business operations, enterprise technology, and analytics, this role drives the standards, processes, and capabilities required to ensure trusted, consistent, and accessible data across the organization.

This is a highly collaborative, hands-on leadership role that combines strategic direction with practical execution. The position will influence cross-functional priorities, challenge existing processes, and identify systemic issues, and actively partner with business and technology teams to design and implement sustainable improvements.

The role does not own enterprise data or perform routine data maintenance. Rather, it establishes the governance framework, drives accountability, and enables business data owners and operational teams to improve how data is created, maintained, integrated, and consumed.

Success will be measured how to develop data quality, reduced manual effort and rework, greater process efficiency, stronger enterprise connectivity, and increased confidence in business reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities.

You'll add value to this role by performing various functions including, but not limited to:

• Lead the development and continuous improvement of enterprise data governance standards, policies, processes, and accountability frameworks.
• Partner with business data owners and Shared Services to establish clear ownership, stewardship, decision rights, and consistent practices across critical data domains.
• Facilitate cross-functional governance decisions, resolve competing priorities, and elevate systemic issues requiring business leadership intervention.

• Establish measurable data quality standards, scorecards, monitoring practices, and exception management processes.
• Proactively investigate data quality issues, identify root causes, and work directly with accountable teams to develop and implement corrective actions.
• Drive sustainable controls and continuous improvement practices that prevent…