IT&D Director, Global Data Governance

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In IT&D, you'll be a force for good, whether you're championing cyber security, defining how we harness the power of technology to improve our business, or working with data to guide the innovation of consumer loved products.

Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you're willing to bring your ideas to the table, you'll get the support and investment to make them happen. Your potential will never be wasted. You'll get the space and support to take your development to the next level.

Every day, there will be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from Research and Product Development to Sales, you'll keep learning exciting new approaches.

The Global Data Governance Director is a senior leadership role responsible for building, executing, and sustaining the enterprise-wide data governance strategy. Reporting to the VP, Global Data & Analytics, this role ensures that the company’s data are trusted, standardized, well-governed, and available as a strategic asset to enable business growth, regulatory compliance, and digital transformation. The successful candidate will chair Global Data Governance committees to drive data feasibility assessments (i.e. data availability, quality, consistency and synergies) and will monitor compliance of the current Group / BU projects with Data Governance standards.

The Director will lead three specialized sub-teams covering data domain stewardship, master data technology platforms and foundational datasets as products in the company’s data lake. This leader will work closely with business stakeholders, technology partners, and executive leadership to drive data quality at source, implementing scalable governance processes, and promoting a culture of data literacy and accountability across the enterprise.

• Communicate the value of data governance and explain / influence senior executives (usually GEC-1) to reach an understanding of how fundamental and structural it is to make progress in this area, knowing this often require difficult trade-offs.
• Work with a large complex ecosystem of current and potential internal and external partner organizations to provide value to Reckitt.
• Ensure data governance initiatives are supported by sound business cases which identify measures of success and are value based. Ensuring this is fully supported and required actions to realise are owned by the relevant stakeholders.
• Actively contribute to the development and implementation of the overall Global Data & Analytics strategy, especially the stewardship, master data, data products, and AI readiness.

• Define and execute the enterprise data governance strategy in alignment with business goals and IT&D priorities.
• Serve as the executive point of contact for data governance, influencing senior stakeholders and setting the framework for cross-functional duties and oversight of Data Governance sub-teams.
• Partner with business and IT leaders to align governance initiatives with key strategic priorities (e.g., digital transformation, analytics, AI readiness, regulatory compliance). Close collaboration with global partners will be required to ensure alignment with data strategy and not limited, to data privacy and cybersecurity.
• Enables the definition and roll-out of data policies, standards, monitoring the compliance across all areas.
• Articulate the impact of poor data governance on value realisation and ensure clear ownership and accountability for data…