MDM Programme Director - #2196561

One of our clients is hiring a Master Data Management Programme Director to lead a multi-year programme to establish consistent governance, ownership, standards and controls for the business’ critical master data.

Role: MDM (Master Data Management) Programme Director

Permanent

Salary: £150k - £180k DOE + Bonus & Benefits

Hybrid role: 3 days a week in Birmingham

The Role:

Our client is embarking on a major, enterprise-wide transformation journey, redesigning their end-to-end target operating model across people, process and technology. There will be 5 major transformation programmes including a full ERP upgrade and a variety of other system and process projects.

The MDM (Master Data Management) Programme Director leads a multi-year programme to establish consistent governance, ownership, standards and controls for our critical master data. Working with the Business Lead, the role is accountable for the plan, budget, scope, governance, risk and delivery assurance, and shares responsibility for outcomes and benefits.

The programme will create trusted, reusable customer, product, supplier, colleague, location, asset and finance data. It will set clear ownership, common definitions, quality rules, lifecycle controls, metadata and lineage, supported by the technology needed to manage master data across the Group.

The role leads business, data, technology and supplier teams from discovery through implementation, adoption and transition to business-as-usual. The role sits within the delivery Centre of Excellence Transformation Team, which sets professional standards for programme delivery and supports capability and development.

Key requirements:

• Significant experience leading enterprise data governance or master data management transformation programmes.
• Successful delivery of data governance and master data capabilities from design through deployment and adoption.
• Experience leading MDM teams and workstreams
• Strong knowledge of data ownership, stewardship, metadata, lineage, reference data and data quality.
• Experience within complex, multi-site businesses
• Have work within end-to-end projects, and created and implemented enterprise wide master data solutions as part of broader transformation programmes
• Experience implementing master data platforms, data catalogues or data-quality tools.
• Strong programme planning, governance, dependency management, financial control and benefits realisation.
• Executive accountability for delivery, investment, risk, assurance, outcomes and benefits with experience communicating solutions and design trade-offs to key stakeholders, making recommendations to ensure proper data stewardship is in place
• Experience leading technology suppliers, systems integrators and specialist partners.
• Commercial understanding of how trusted data supports customer experience, efficiency, control, analytics, compliance and AI readiness.
• Experience in a complex consumer, retail, service or multi-business organisation.
• Strong executive influence, Board-level communication and leadership of multidisciplinary teams.

This is a permanent opportunity, with travel to their Birmingham office 3 days a week.

If you feel you meet the above criteria, please do apply. Unfortunately given the number of applications, we may be unable to respond to all unsuccessful applications.