Data Governance Specialist
Ardo supplies its continuously growing markets around the world with high quality frozen vegetables, herbs, and fruit with 3300 employees and 16 production, packing & distribution sites in 7 different countries. The family business sells in more than 100 countries and has a turnover of more than 1.4 billion euros. The proximity of our factories to our crops is one of our key strengths and ensures that only minutes are lost between harvest and locking in the product’s natural goodness in our freezers.
Ardo's mission is to preserve the gift of nature for future generations by providing fresh frozen, plant-based food while minimizing our impact on the planet. Ardo achieves this goal thanks to an integrated network of growing areas, production units, freezing units, packaging equipment, appropriate logistics and thorough quality control. The group's know-how and flexible structure ensure that it can respond quickly to new trends and that innovative product can be brought onto the market quickly.
Your Scope
The Data Governance Specialist is a key role within the Data & Analytics Team, supporting the need for high-quality master data in our mission towards becoming a data-driven company. This role reports to the Data Architect & Governance Lead and works closely with stakeholders across Data, IT and business departments.
Key Responsibilities
Data Governance Framework:
1. Develop, design, and implement data governance standards and policies and facilitate discussions around data ownership with different stakeholders.
2. Create and maintain a comprehensive data glossary and reference data for specific objects.
3. Identify areas for data quality improvements, define quality checks, verify the implementation and help to resolve data quality problems
Data Stakeholder management:
4. Facilitate the discussions with the different data owners and ensure alignment on data definitions and data ownership
5. Create and establish the right processes for the data owners to manage and maintain the data objects as per the governance principles
6. Drive the implementation of the governance principles and processes, monitor the compliance and support or improve where needed
7. Collaborate with data owners, stewards, and other stakeholders to align data governance efforts with business needs.
8. Work closely with teams across Sales, Purchasing, Finance, Supply Chain, Production, and Quality and across geographies
Master Data Management & Quality Assurance:
9. Oversee the maintenance of master data for key domains such as material, vendor, and customer data.
10. Monitor and analyse master data to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness.
11. Identify areas for data quality improvements, define quality checks, verify implementations, and support issue resolution.
12. Ensure compliance with data governance policies, standards, and industry best practices.
Operational Support & Continuous Improvement:
13. Lead initiatives to improve efficiency within the different data owner through process optimization and training.
14. Provide training and guidance to team members on data governance best practices.
15. Work closely together with the data owner and data stewards and assist in operational work if needed. Like this, you stay in close contact to the team and can assess impact on daily work
Your profile
Technical Expertise:
16. Minimum of 3 years of experience in master data management or data governance.
17. Strong understanding of data governance principles, including data ownership models, stewardship, policies, and compliance.
18. Experience with master data systems, including SAP and data governance/data quality tools, is a plus.
Soft Skills:
19. Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and vice versa.
20. Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset.
21. Effective stakeholder management and change management capabilities.
22. Ability to drive adoption of data governance principles across the organization.
23. Team player with the ability to work collaboratively across departments.
24. Fluency in English is required, Dutch is a plus.
We offer
We offer you the opportunity to be part of an authentic and sustainable international company, with real growth opportunities and the freedom to actively participate in shaping the business and the opportunity to develop professionally. You will receive a full remuneration package in line with the level of this position. We care for our people and create family-friendly surroundings by offering you the flexibility to work 2 days/week from home.
Interested? Contact our recruitment partner KABAS for this role, via email .