Global Taxonomy & Data Governance Manager

Omnicom Media; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Media in London is seeking a Taxonomy Governance Manager to own the day-to-day operation of a global marketing taxonomy governance service. You will maintain taxonomy standards, manage change requests, and ensure consistent naming and classification across markets and delivery teams.

You will collaborate with business, media, data and reporting teams to support activation, measurement and reporting, chair governance forums, and guide teams through compliance and remediation.

Qualifications

• Experience in taxonomy, metadata, data governance, information management or data quality.
• Strong understanding of naming conventions, controlled vocabularies, data dictionaries and classification structures.
• Experience operating change-control, approval and governance processes.
• Ability to analyse compliance issues and coordinate corrective action.
• Strong stakeholder management across business and technical teams.
• Clear documentation, facilitation and written communication skills.
• Experience managing specialists, analysts or an operational workstream.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain taxonomy standards, data dictionaries, naming conventions, field definitions and guidance.
• Manage change requests from intake and assessment through approval, implementation and closure.
• Identify duplicate, conflicting or poorly defined values and protect taxonomy integrity.
• Chair the governance forum, maintain decision records and escalation material or ambiguous issues.
• Define compliance rules with data and reporting teams; review results and coordinate remediation.
• Assess downstream impacts across planning, activation, creative workflows, data and reporting.
• Confirm approved changes are implemented across relevant tools, datasets and reports.
• Deliver practical guidance and training to improve adoption and correct usage.
• Manage analysts or specialists, set priorities and assure work quality.
• Use compliance trends and stakeholder feedback to improve governance processes.

Skills

taxonomy governance

data governance

change-control

stakeholder management

documentation

leadership

data quality

Job description

Omnicom Media in London is seeking a Taxonomy Governance Manager to own the day-to-day operation of a global marketing taxonomy governance service. You will maintain taxonomy standards, manage change requests, and ensure consistent naming and classification across markets and delivery teams.

You will collaborate with business, media, data and reporting teams to support activation, measurement and reporting, chair governance forums, and guide teams through compliance and remediation.