Global Data Governance Lead

Mindshare; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive benefits package

Significant paid time off

Job summary

WPP Media is seeking a data governance professional to strengthen data definitions and ensure trusted, well-defined data across Colgate's global operations. You will maintain data dictionaries, metadata, taxonomies, and data lineage while partnering with data, reporting, analytics, and technology teams to translate governance standards into practical processes.

You will support a global environment spanning multiple markets and consumer categories, serving as a trusted point of contact for data

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in data governance, data stewardship, data operations, data quality, or a related discipline.
• Experience managing data dictionaries, metadata, taxonomies, schemas, and data lineage documentation.
• Strong understanding of data mapping and maintaining consistency across multiple data sources and systems.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with large, complex data sets.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned data domains and maintain clear, accurate, and accessible definitions for data assets, attributes, and relationships.
• Develop and maintain data dictionaries, metadata documentation, taxonomies, and related governance materials.
• Establish and document data lineage across source systems, transformation processes, and reporting or analytics platforms.
• Apply data governance standards that improve data quality, consistency, usability, and trust across Colgate's global markets.
• Map relationships between data domains and explain schemas, dependencies, and connections to technical and business stakeholders.
• Partner with the Colgate Palmolive data stewardship team to align governance practices across complementary data domains.
• Collaborate with reporting, analytics, data, technology, and investment teams to support effective data deployment and usage.
• Work with Claravine to support consistent naming conventions across media data and related systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve data documentation, workflows, processes, and stakeholder access.
• Support data quality reviews and help resolve inconsistencies as data moves into reporting and analytics environments.

Skills

Data governance

Data stewardship

Data quality

Data mapping

Excel

Power BI

Datorama

Snowflake

GCP

Salesforce Data Cloud

Tools

Domo

Power BI

Datorama

Snowflake

Google Cloud Platform

Salesforce Data Cloud

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Claravine

Job description

WPP Media is seeking a data governance professional to strengthen data definitions and ensure trusted, well-defined data across Colgate's global operations. You will maintain data dictionaries, metadata, taxonomies, and data lineage while partnering with data, reporting, analytics, and technology teams to translate governance standards into practical processes.

You will support a global environment spanning multiple markets and consumer categories, serving as a trusted point of contact for data