Manager - Data Operations and Reporting

OMGEURUK Omnicom Media Group Europe; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Media Group Europe (OMG EMEA) seeks a Manager to own the day-to-day operation of a global marketing taxonomy governance service. The role ensures taxonomy standards, data dictionaries and naming conventions are maintained while driving compliant change across markets and teams for reliable activation, measurement and reporting.

Working across business, media, data and reporting teams, the Manager will chair governance, assess impacts, deliver guidance and train staff to improve adoption

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 elevate 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

Metadata standards

Data quality

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Change-control

Job description

Role purpose Own the day-to-day operation of a global marketing taxonomy governance service. The role maintains approved taxonomy and metadata standards, manages controlled change, monitors compliance and helps markets and delivery teams apply naming and classification standards consistently. Working across business, media, data and reporting teams, the Manager ensures taxonomy supports reliable activation, measurement and reporting.

Key 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 elevate 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.

Experience and capabilities

Essential

• 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.

Desirable

• Experience in media, marketing data, campaign operations or digital advertising.
• Familiarity with campaign, placement, creative, asset or tracking taxonomies.
• Exposure to planning platforms, data pipelines, validation tools or BI reporting.
• Experience supporting multiple markets or regional teams.

About Annalect EMEA

Omnicom Media Group Europe (OMG EMEA) is the media division of Omnicom Group Inc., headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and Newcastle. The Annalect EMEA team at OMG EMEA is the data, technology, and analytics division. We help CMOs and their teams harness data, technology, and advanced analytics to grow their brands. We have built a variety of innovative product and specialist service solutions for clients and agency partners. We build and maintain the Omni platform which gives agency and client teams access to these capabilities as well as the ability to integrate and combine their own data and technology with Omni. Omni has over 30,000 active users and is recognized in the industry as a leading marketing platform. We continuously innovate the platform to ensure our clients stay ahead of their competitors in data driven marketing. Our team of Annalectuals is growing rapidly and are based in over 80 countries around the globe, supported by global and regional team hubs in NY, London, Singapore, Gurgaon, Bangalore, and Hyderabad. The EMEA team is responsible for global and regional client relationships led from London, as well as the development of new data-driven marketing capabilities. They form part of our global team and collaborate closely with local market Annalect teams across EMEA as well as regional Omnicom agency partners.

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