Senior Manager - Data Management and Governance

ASDA; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the retail sector seeks a Senior Manager for Data Management and Governance in Leeds. The role involves leading data governance initiatives, ensuring compliance with data policies, and enhancing data literacy across the organization. The position offers a hybrid working model with a competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Benefits

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 1.5 times contribution

Company Car allowance of £8000

15% colleague discount

Free access to wellbeing services

24/7 virtual GP and counselling

Excellent parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven background in data management and governance.
• Strong understanding of data governance principles and practices.
• Experience running training and education programmes.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead a high performing data governance function.
• Develop data governance strategies and frameworks.
• Collaborate to embed data ownership and stewardship.

Skills

Communication

Data Governance

Data Management

Data Literacy

Job description

Job Title

Senior Manager - Data Management and Governance

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive Salary plus benefits

Category

Data Science

Closing Date

1 June 2025

This role is based in our Leeds office. You’ll be expected to be on-site three days per week to support team collaboration and project delivery.

Asda is an exciting place to work we have undergone a significant transformation which has reworked all the technology that drives the business. Data Governance is essential to both protect and enable Asda to derive more value from its data. We are looking for a seasoned Senior Data Governance Manager to join the Asda Data Senior Leadership team. To lead the development and implementation of Asda’s data governance capability.

Your Role (Key Responsibilities)

• Managing and leading a high performing data governance function, including data quality, data management and data governance roles.
• Developing and shaping data governance strategies and frameworks, including coordinating data management, governance and engagement activities across Asda. Ensuring adherence to data policies, standards and regulations.
• Collaborate with the business to embed data ownership and stewardship, improving data understanding, accuracy and efficacy in the organisation through improvement initiatives. Ensuring data is appropriately managed and classified throughout its lifecycle.
• Drive initiatives to enhance data literacy across the organisation by promoting awareness of data usage practices, privacy standards, and governance frameworks, while collaborating closely with internal risk and audit teams
• Implementing best practice and new toolkits to define and manage business rules, data quality, master data and metadata. Ensuring appropriate data quality management is in place, including issue identification, logging, route cause analysis and processes for resolution.
• Working with data architecture, engineering and service management teams to ensure data lineage is identified, mapped, documented and embedded in the Enterprise Data Model.

About You (Qualifications)

• You are a great communicator and facilitator, able to work with and influence at all levels of the organisation.
• You have a proven background in data management and governance teams to deliver measurable benefits and a good knowledge of the main frameworks, tools and technologies in this space.
• You will have a strong understanding of data governance principles, practices, policies, regulations and industry standards. With practical experience of running training and education programmes across large organisations.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%)
• Company Car allowance of £8000
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream
• 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves