Procurement Data Quality & Governance Manager

Job Description Summary

Job Description Summary

The Data Quality & Governance Manager is accountable for defining, implementing, and continuously improving data governance and data quality practices across the organization. The role ensures that data is accurate, consistent, compliant, and fit for business use by establishing governance frameworks, quality controls, data stewardship processes, and performance monitoring mechanisms.

Job Description

Major Accountabilities

• Establish, implement, and continuously improve the enterprise-wide data governance framework, policies, standards, and controls.
• Define and manage data ownership, stewardship, accountability models, and governance operating processes across data domains.
• Ensure compliance with data governance principles, regulatory requirements, and organizational data management standards.
• Lead and facilitate governance councils, forums, stakeholder engagements, and decision-making processes.
• Define, monitor, and report data quality KPIs, metrics, thresholds, and dashboards to drive data quality outcomes.
• Oversee data quality management activities including profiling, audits, issue resolution, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Lead governance maturity assessments, automation initiatives, and continuous improvement programs to enhance data quality and operational efficiency.

Minimum Requirements

• Proven experience in Data Governance, Data Quality Management, Master Data Management (MDM), and Metadata Management.
• Min 6-8 years of demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise data governance frameworks and operating models.
• Strong understanding of data cataloging, data lineage, metadata management, data architecture, and data lifecycle management.
• Experience establishing data quality standards, controls, monitoring processes, and remediation frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• DCAM certification and experience conducting governance maturity assessments and annual DCAM activities.

Why Novartis?

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!

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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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Skills Desired

Data Profiling, Data Quality