Data & AI Governance Lead — Trusted Data, Flexible Work

Damen; Gorinchem; On-site; EUR 73,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global team

Career growth

Innovation culture

Work-life balance

Pension

Travel allowance

Job summary

Damen is seeking a pragmatic Data & AI Governance Lead to build Damen’s Data & AI governance capability. You will lead a team and embed governance across reporting, analytics and AI to deliver real business value.

This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on execution, partnering with Data Services, IT, Security and Analytics to align data models, lineage and standards. We offer an international工作 environment and full-time employment in the Netherlands.

Qualifications

• Experience in Data Governance, Master Data Management or Enterprise Data Management.
• Understanding of data ownership, stewardship, data quality, metadata, data definitions and lifecycle management.
• Experience building governance capabilities within complex organizations.
• Ability to connect business, IT, architecture, security, analytics and operational teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills at all levels.
• Hands-on mindset translating strategy into measurable results.
• Knowledge of data requirements for AI including lineage, quality, classification, access control and trusted sources.
• Experience driving adoption and communities of Data Owners and Data Stewards.
• Preferably experience in manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, ERP or CRM environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop Damen’s Data & AI Governance capability.
• Manage a team of Data Stewards, the Product Owner MDM, Project Manager and AI agents.
• Create an environment of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Further develop governance framework, roles, responsibilities and standards.
• Strengthen Data Ownership and Data Stewardship across the organization.
• Drive adoption through communication, coaching and stakeholder engagement.
• Increase visibility of data quality issues and prioritize improvements.
• Establish sustainable processes for critical data domains.
• Ensure trusted data for operations, reporting and analytics.
• Partner with business stakeholders, IT, Security, Privacy, Analytics and AI teams.
• Govern master data domains with the Data Shared Services Center.
• Build relationships linking strategy, governance and business value.
• Align governance with data models, metadata, lineage and data products.
• Support implementation of governance in data platforms and systems.
• Establish scalable ways of working for future growth.
• Ensure data is classified, governed, secured and trusted for AI use cases.
• Strengthen data lineage, ownership, access control and source reliability.
• Shape responsible AI governance with transparency and human oversight.

Skills

Data Governance

Master Data Management

Enterprise Data Management

Data Ownership

Stakeholder Management

AI Data Requirements

Change Management

Data Quality

Data Security

Tools

DAMA-DMBOK

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Fabric

Azure

MDM tooling

SAP

AI Governance

Job description

Damen is seeking a pragmatic Data & AI Governance Lead to build Damen’s Data & AI governance capability. You will lead a team and embed governance across reporting, analytics and AI to deliver real business value.

This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on execution, partnering with Data Services, IT, Security and Analytics to align data models, lineage and standards. We offer an international工作 environment and full-time employment in the Netherlands.