Project Manager, Data Governance

Driven by the passion to improve quality of people’s lives, WSA continues to grow as a market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively.

We are looking for a Project & Portfolio Manager – Data Governance & Data Management to drive our Data Governance agenda and bring structure and momentum to a complex global portfolio. This is a classical project and portfolio management role with a strong business and data focus, rather than a traditional IT Project Manager position. You will manage roadmaps, priorities, requests, and projects, ensuring initiatives move forward in line with business needs.

You will manage projects from initiation through implementation, with key initiatives including the centralisation and harmonisation of customer master data or global r data harmonisation within material master data. You will also maintain an overview of priorities, risks, dependencies, and resources across the portfolio.

What you will do

• Facilitate the Data Governance portfolio roadmap, priorities, milestones, and resource planning.
• Manage selected data governance and data management projects from initiation to closure.

• Coordinate requests and initiatives, tracking risks, dependencies, resources, and priorities.

• Drive data governance and data management initiatives that enable global business processes, data harmonisation, and master data excellence, across major data domains (e.g Customer, Product)

• Establish clear project methodology, responsibilities, decision-making, and ways of working.

• Facilitate cross-functional meetings, stakeholder discussions, and governance forums.

• Maintain portfolio reporting, dashboards, and leadership updates.

• Improve project and portfolio management practices, supporting business readiness and adoption.

What you bring

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in project or portfolio management within data, business, process, or technology transformation.

• Experience managing multiple complex, cross-functional projects and competing priorities.

• Strong knowledge of project planning, governance, risk, dependency, and stakeholder management.

• Experience with data management, data governance, or business transformation is a plus.

• Experience working in a global organisation is highly valued.

• Understanding of Agile ways of working; is a plus.

• Experience with project management or collaboration tools such as Jira, Planner or Azure DevOps and SharePoint is an advantage.

Personal competencies

• Self-driven with the ability to work independently and proactively.

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.

• Excellent planning and organisational abilities.

• Analytical and structured problem-solving mindset.

• Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity while maintaining a clear overview.

• Confident facilitator and communicator across functions and seniority levels.

• Proactive, adaptable, and delivery-focused, with a strong sense of ownership.

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.