Data governance lead (12 month fixed-term)

Closing date: 19th October 2024

Salary: £65,000 (+bonus +benefits)

Through problem solving, creativity and proactivity, in this role you'll lead on data governance and data quality management with a leading publisher.

Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity. We're made up of 12 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors. We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.

Core objectives of this role are to assist with the development and rollout out of the HUK data strategy. To land our longer-term Data Strategy, we require good Data Governance. The Data Governance Manager is responsible for developing, implementing and managing a data governance framework for Hachette UK and its divisions.

The function of the Business Intelligence and Data Engineering team is to develop and support enterprise-level data insight and reporting solutions in response to business-driven requests for change. The solutions must always strive to be accurate and available, making them a trusted source of business information, and ensuring best practices are followed and comply with IT and industry standards.

This role includes defining data policies, standards, and procedures; developing and maintaining data quality metrics; and overseeing the data governance roadmap for Hachette UK.

The Data Governance Manager will work closely with business units, Hachette IT and the Hachette UK DPO to agree and build the framework and ensure that data is used effectively and compliantly.

Hachette UK operates a 3:2 hybrid approach where we encourage employees to be working from an Hachette Office 3 days a week. In Hachette UK IT, we operate with an element of flexibility that can be discussed.

Responsibilities

The role will work closely with colleagues from across the HUK divisions to promote knowledge sharing and the implementation of common best practices across Data usage and management. It will also be responsible for supporting any approved changes requests through the entire development lifecycle to ensure that they meet the agreed specification. Finally, the role will play a key part in the design and delivery of the HUK Data Strategy in the mid/long term.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Develop and implement the organisation's data governance framework.
• Suggest, implement and maintain suitable tooling (MS Purview etc ) to map and manage our current and future data landscape.
• delivering a comprehensive Data Catalogue, Data Map and Data Dictionary.
• Define, where appropriate, data policies, standards, and procedures.
• Develop and maintain data quality metrics.
• Work with business units, IT. legal and the DPO to ensure that data is used effectively and compliantly.
• Identify and mitigate data risks, assist in any audit findings relating to data.
• Provide guidance and support to data stewards and custodians.
• Stay up to date on industry trends and best practices.
• Become an active member of the Hachette UK Data Steering Committee

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Experience in MS Purview or other Data management/Modelling application.
• Experience in either Cognos Framework Manager Data Modelling or Power BI Data Modelling.
• Experience working in Data Migration & Data Cleansing workstreams.
• Experiencing in analysing large data sets.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and organisation skills.
• Flexibility and adaptability.
• Ability to create and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues and customers.

What we offer

Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

• 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
• Generous pension schemes
• Rent deposit loans
• 2 community days per year
• Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
• Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Wide-ranging training library
• Development programmes (including mentoring)
• Up to 70% off book purchases
• A charity bookshelf
• 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
• Season ticket loans
• And much more!

This role can be based at our London office, or at one of our regional offices in Sheffield, Edinburgh, or Bristol.

Our commitment

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

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