Senior Manager - Data Management and Governance

TN United Kingdom; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the retail sector is seeking a Senior Manager for Data Management and Governance in Leeds. This role involves leading data governance initiatives, ensuring data quality, and enhancing data literacy across the organization. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in data governance principles and a strong ability to communicate effectively at all levels.

Benefits

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 1.5 times colleagues' contribution

Company Car allowance of £8000

15% colleague discount in store and online

Free access to wellbeing services

24/7 virtual GP and counseling

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 programs.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead a high performing data governance function.
• Develop and shape data governance strategies and frameworks.
• Collaborate with the business to improve data understanding and accuracy.

Skills

Communication

Data Management

Data Governance

Data Quality

Data Literacy

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21.05.2025

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05.07.2025

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.
• Collaborating with the business to embed data ownership and stewardship, improving data understanding, accuracy and efficacy in the organization through improvement initiatives. Ensuring data is appropriately managed and classified throughout its lifecycle.
• Driving initiatives to enhance data literacy across the organization by promoting awareness of data usage practices, privacy standards, and governance frameworks, while collaborating closely with internal risk and audit teams.
• Implementing best practices 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, root cause analysis, and resolution processes.
• 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 organization.
• 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 programs across large organizations.

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 of 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 to 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, counseling, 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 ensure everybody is included and that our differences are recognized 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.