Head of Global Product Data Governance & Compliance

HOLLAND AND BARRETT; Nuneaton; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Annual bonus up to 20%

Private medical insurance

Pension with employer contributions

Employee Assistance Programme

Colleague discount

Health & wellbeing benefits

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Holland & Barrett in the United Kingdom is seeking a Head of Group Product Data Compliance to define strategy and governance for product and supplier data across markets. You will build the foundations for automation and scale the data capability to support growth.

Lead a multi-location team (approx. 15-20), shape MDM, PIM, PLM landscape, and partner with diverse functions while ensuring regulatory compliance and data quality to drive value across the business.

Qualifications

• Experience with product data in retail or FMCG environments.
• Familiar with MDM, PIM, ERP and PLM platforms.
• Experience developing enterprise-level data governance, standards and operating models.
• Leadership across multi-location teams and complex stakeholder groups.
• Understanding of product data structures, hierarchies, quality frameworks and stewardship models.
• Experience contributing to significant technology or digital transformation programmes.
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguity and build cross-functional solutions.
• Experience across international markets would be valuable.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver our group-wide strategy and roadmap for product data compliance, governance and quality.
• Create consistent standards, processes and controls across markets, channels and business units.
• Lead the end-to-end product data lifecycle, from supplier and product onboarding through to maintenance and retirement.
• Build clear product data structures, hierarchies and sources of truth across the organisation.
• Lead and develop a multi-location team of around 15-20 colleagues, bringing together capabilities as our group model evolves.
• Partner with Product Integrity, Supply Chain, Commercial, Manufacturing, Technology, Data & Analytics and Digital teams.
• Shape and optimise our MDM, PIM, PLM and related technology landscape.
• Develop an automation roadmap, using data, analytics and AI to reduce manual activity, improve quality and increase pace.
• Strengthen product data compliance to support regulatory requirements and the movement of goods across borders.
• Establish meaningful measures for data quality, accuracy, completeness and timeliness, using insight to drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Product data governance

Product master data

Data governance

Leadership

Multi-location leadership

International markets experience

Tools

MDM systems

PIM

ERP

PLM platforms

Job description

Holland & Barrett in the United Kingdom is seeking a Head of Group Product Data Compliance to define strategy and governance for product and supplier data across markets. You will build the foundations for automation and scale the data capability to support growth.

Lead a multi-location team (approx. 15-20), shape MDM, PIM, PLM landscape, and partner with diverse functions while ensuring regulatory compliance and data quality to drive value across the business.