SSC Data Governance Manager

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Responsibilities

• ▹Map current data usage and dependencies: identify how key datasets are used by SSC teams, business functions, reporting and operational users; document source systems, EDP availability, reports, dashboards, extracts, manual files, transformations and downstream consumers; maintain a data usage catalogue
• ▹Support critical data element definition: work with Data Owners, Data Stewards, GPOs, operations SMEs, IT and Data Delivery to identify critical data elements; document definitions, source fields, owners, stewards, quality rules and known issues; maintain glossary and metadata documentation
• ▹Coordinate data quality assessment and monitoring: support data profiling; document data quality issues (completeness, validity, duplication, consistency, timeliness, ownership); maintain a central issue log and remediation backlog; support creation of data quality scorecards
• ▹Support governance forums and stakeholder engagement: prepare agendas, pre-reads, decision logs and action trackers; coordinate workshops with operations, master data teams, business consumers, IT and Data Delivery
• ▹Support EDP onboarding and data product readiness: document data availability in EDP; capture business requirements for missing data; support prioritization of EDP onboarding
• ▹Maintain governance documentation and controls: maintain templates for critical data elements, ownership, stewardship, data quality rules, issue management and change impact assessment; ensure no changes are made without documented usage and impact assessment

Requirements

• ▹Experience in data governance, data analysis, business analysis, process improvement, SSC operations, finance operations or reporting
• ▹Good understanding of one or more SSC workstreams: PTP, OTC, RTR or Customer Care
• ▹Ability to document complex data flows, definitions, business rules and stakeholder dependencies
• ▹Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• ▹Strong Excel, Power BI, data profiling or reporting literacy
• ▹Ability to work with business users, operations SMEs, IT teams and analytics teams
• ▹Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• ▹Comfortable managing action logs, issue trackers, workshops and governance documentation

Nice to have

• ▹Practical understanding of ERP data, EDP/data platforms, semantic models or master data

Soft skills

About the company

Thermo Fisher Scientific's global teams work to enable the company's mission of making the world healthier, cleaner and safer; the role sits within the SSC's newly launching Data Office organization.