Lead Enterprise Data Governance – Build Trusted Data

innocent drinks; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Target-based bonus

Birthday day off

Free smoothies

Job summary

innocent is seeking a senior data governance lead to define and evolve enterprise data governance, standards and ways of working across the business. You will build a community of Data Owners and Data Stewards, drive data quality improvements, and shape roadmaps for data dictionaries, glossaries, data quality monitoring and Master Data Management (MDM).

Join a mission-driven team influencing analytics, transformation programmes and AI initiatives with a collaborative culture and a strong focus

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality and Master Data Management (MDM).
• Ability to design and embed practical governance frameworks and operating models that people genuinely use.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across multiple business functions.
• Ability to balance governance standards with commercial and operational realities.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into clear business outcomes.
• Growth mindset with curiosity to ask questions, challenge assumptions and bring clarity to complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Defining and evolving innocent's enterprise data governance framework, standards and ways of working.
• Creating clear ownership, stewardship and accountability models across our key business data.
• Building and leading a community of Data Owners and Data Stewards across the business.
• Bringing together people from different teams to create shared understanding, clear ownership and consistent ways of working around data.
• Driving improvements in data quality through meaningful measures, reporting and root-cause resolution.
• Embedding governance into major business and technology transformation programmes.
• Improving metadata, business definitions and data lineage so people can find, understand and trust the data they use.
• Shaping the roadmap for governance capabilities including data dictionaries, business glossaries, data quality monitoring and Master Data Management (MDM).

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

MDM

Stakeholder management

Communication

Job description

innocent is seeking a senior data governance lead to define and evolve enterprise data governance, standards and ways of working across the business. You will build a community of Data Owners and Data Stewards, drive data quality improvements, and shape roadmaps for data dictionaries, glossaries, data quality monitoring and Master Data Management (MDM).

Join a mission-driven team influencing analytics, transformation programmes and AI initiatives with a collaborative culture and a strong focus