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YOUR MISSION:
As
Senior Manager Data Governance, you will play a critical leadership role in strengthening the foundations of PUMA's data landscape. You will champion enterprise-wide data governance, quality, and compliance to support data-driven decision-making across the business.
Key Responsibilities:
Data Governance Strategy & Policies
- Develop and implement data governance strategies aligned with PUMA's business objectives.
- Assist in defining data governance policies, procedures, and standards to ensure data quality, integrity, consistency and timeliness.
BusinessIT Partnership
- Serve as the main liaison between business and IT teams to resolve data governancerelated challenges.
Data Quality Management
- Perform complex data profiling, cleansing, validation, and monitoring.
- Track and report on data accuracy, completeness, and consistency across systems.
- Define metrics and KPIs to evaluate improvements in data quality.
Compliance & Data Privacy
- Ensure adherence to global and regional regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, and internal data protection standards.
- Collaborate with Legal, Risk, and IT Security teams to implement and enforce data privacy policies.
Data Access, Metadata & Documentation
- Contribute to defining data access, classification, and retention policies.
- Maintain business glossaries, data dictionaries, and metadata standards.
YOUR TALENT:
Skills
Technical Skills:
- Expertise in data governance frameworks, policies, and operating models
- Strong knowledge of data quality management (profiling, cleansing, validation)
- Experience with Master Data Management (MDM) solutions and implementation
- Proficiency in metadata management, business glossaries, and data dictionaries
- Understanding of data classification, access controls, and retention policies
- Hands-on experience with Data Governance tools (Ataccama, Collibra, etc.)
- Ability to define and track data quality KPIs and metrics
- Strong knowledge of enterprise data platforms and architectural principles
- Ability to collaborate with data engineering teams to embed governance in pipelines
Leadership Skills:
- Ability to set and drive a data governance vision aligned with business strategy
- Skilled at translating technical concepts into business impact
- Proven capability to lead cross-functional programs and governance initiatives
- Ability to influence and advocate for data-driven decision-making
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills for training and awareness programs
- Strong problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills in a multi-stakeholder environment
- Ability to mentor and develop data governance champions across the organization
- Strategic mindset with the ability to balance governance and agility
PUMA supports over 21,000 employees across 120+ countries. The PUMA Group owns the brand PUMA, Cobra Golf and stichd, and is headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany.
PUMA provides equal opportunities for all job applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Equality for all is one of the core principles at PUMA and we do not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination.
