Head of Data Office

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About the London Metal Exchange

The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Most of the worlds global non-ferrous futures business is conducted on the LMEs three trading platforms totalling $18 trillion 178 million lots and 4 billion tonnes with a market open interest high of 1.8 million lots in 2024.

The metals community uses the LME an HKEX Group company as a venue to transfer or take on price risk as a physical market of last resort and as the provider of transparent global reference prices.

Overall Purpose of Role

The LME Data Office is responsible for data across the Group. You will be responsible for leading that Data Office managing the organisations data ensuring it is understood structured accurate secure and compliant with regulations with the purpose of:

• Developing and enhancing data management strategy

• Defining and upholding good data governance

• Ensuring data is well structured understood and used appropriately by the organization

• Empowering data users to understand the data driving decision making

• Improving the structure of data to accelerate data change

• Maintaining data analytics capability

Responsibilities

• Team leadership of the Data Office including supporting individuals in their development

• Developing and enhancing the data management strategy including the operating model

• Defining and upholding good data governance

• Ensuring data is well structured understood and used appropriately by the organization

• Establishing and enforcing organisation-wide standards for data management analytics practices and reporting to ensure consistency quality and compliance across all business units

• Empower data users to understand the data driving decision making and accelerate change

• Driving resiliency of data and data systems

• Managing data risks

• Maintaining a data analytics capability supporting the organization to analyse data.

• Maintaining good working relationships with key stakeholders to communicate data activities and ensure the organisations data needs are met

• Partnering with product teams to deliver tooling to support the Data Office

• Running the Data Office working group

Desirable Academic and Professional Qualifications Required

• Degree level qualification

• CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) desired but not essential

Required Knowledge and Level of Experience

• Proven experience of running a Data Office and knowledge of the regulatory requirements

• Experienced in data strategy execution including running working groups and reporting

• Ability to understand complex data flows

Skills set and Core Competencies Required for Role

• Communication and leadership skills

• Strategic planning and thinking

• Outcome-driven orientation

• Data expertise: a strong knowledge of data management governance quality security and architecture

• Assertive to help maintain the vision in challenging situations

• Be able to motivate a team

• Stakeholder management: ability to communicate with different groups of individuals be able to reach a consensus and have a high degree of diplomacy

• Analytical and problem-solving skills

• Have a vision for innovation and future trends: the ability to anticipate emerging technologies applicability

The LME is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting for our teams we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education ethnicity race sex gender identity expression and reassignment nation of origin age languages spoken colour religion disability sexual orientation and doing so we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.