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Apparel/Footwear Data Governance Manager

About the Role

The product data governance department is responsible for developing a strong understanding of team data requirements driving data governance and promoting education in Data Governance across the company. The Manager of Product Data Governance will serve as a key influencer in creating, maintaining, and driving adoption of product data governance standards across the Ariat organization. The Manager will work closely with the Sr. Director of Product Data Governance, Business Data Owners/Stewards, and IT ensuring that policies, processes, and standards are defined and adhered to. They must be a self-starter who is a motivated and highly adaptive team player, has managed a team, and has a track record of managing product data governance in the Footwear and Apparel industry.

You’ll Make a Difference By

Managing product data steward team and oversee the day-to-day operations of the team, engaging with business partners to adhere to and maintain the master data governance processes
Creating, executing, and Managing data governance strategy, practices, and requirements
Exhibiting strong relationship management skills to ensure data owners, data stewards, and data custodians serve as a liaison between Business and Functional areas
Collaborating with Business and IT Data Management teams in building and monitoring Master Data workflows, Master Data quality, Standardization and Metrics to develop, enable and advance data governance and stewardship capabilities
Establishing and Formalizing Process - data preparation, data stewardship, and data quality (Assist in the continuous improvement of the Data Governance Program that includes roles & responsibilities, coordination with business leads, and related process & tools for success measurement)
Partnering with various team members such as Sales and Product Managers to help identify data that is needed in reporting and execute and follow through to completion (Establish and maintain data standards, definitions, processes, and rules in relationship to product attributes to ensure data integrity and quality)
Continuing to expand the information model, business data glossary, data mapping, and key features of the attributes
Documenting key product attributes (data flows, data usages, etc.)
Partnering with reporting teams to document standard reporting requirements needing product data attributes
Setting policies and standards for product data auditing between systems. Bring to resolution discrepancies found by working with key partners
Serving as a change agent driving ‘data as an asset' culture and continued progress toward Ariat becoming an effective product data-driven culture
Participating in change management activities required to fix data quality and process issues
Managing the Data Governance Office efforts. Proactively identify data gaps, data discrepancies, misalignments and propose solution(s) to fix the issues
Identifying key data attributes that need to be monitored and establish framework for efficient governance
Executing processes for monitoring, measuring, and reporting compliance with acceptable levels of data quality (completeness, validity, consistency, timeliness, and accuracy)

About You

Bachelor’s degree
3-4 years’ work experience in a combination of data governance, data quality, and stewardship
2+ years of experience leading and managing a data team
Developed and implemented data standards, policies, practices, and procedures that lead to improvements in data quality and integrity
Experience managing and maintaining master data
Ability to influence / change management
Highly organized and detail oriented
Knowledge of industry-leading data quality and data protection management practices
Results oriented, high energy, inspirational and self-motivated leader
Experience with any Data Governance tools
Excellent computer knowledge: Centric PLM, Outlook, Microsoft Excel/ Word/Visio, Tableau

About Ariat

Ariat is an innovative, outdoor global brand with roots in equestrian performance. We develop high quality footwear and apparel for people who ride, work, and play outdoors, and care about performance, quality, comfort, and style.

The salary range for this position is $90,000 - $95,000 per year.

The salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data for geographic locations. Ariat in good faith believes that this posted compensation range is accurate for this role at this location at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

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By Ariat

We believe in: Innovation Ariat was founded on technology and innovation -- with the goal of making the highest-quality footwear and apparel for the world’s top equestrian athletes. Dedication We are a community of riders and people committed ...

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INDUSTRY

Consumer Product Manufacturing

TEAM SIZE

201-500

LOCATION

Hybrid, based in Union City, CA

DATE POSTED

April 15, 2023