Data Governance Manager
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Job Location:
Nottingham - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
22 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Role: Data Governance Manager
Contract: Permanent
Shift pattern: Full Time
Location: Nottingham
Closing date: 4th March 2026
Recruitment Partner: Matthew Nelligan
What youll be doing
In an ever-evolving landscape of data its important that we understand cleanse and utilize our data to ensure its quality integrity and veracity. Data is one of our greatest assets and the role of data governance and data quality is fundamental in driving our strategy and helping shape the future of our business. To support our data management vision we are looking for someone to join our Data Excellence team to lead the implementation of data governance principles for key data domains across the business.
This role will report to the Head of Data Excellence in the Data & Digital area. You will work cross functionally using your experience and expertise to deliver a step change in data governance and data quality across the organisation. This is a hugely rewarding role with good exposure to a wide range of senior stakeholders across numerous business functions.
Key responsibilities
Establish hierarchies and lead the implementation of a business-wide Data Governance framework for your key data domains with clear timelines milestones and deliverables.
Engage with Data Owners Data Custodians and Data Stewards to ensure they are onboarded onto the Data Governance programme. We must train and support them adequately to meet data governance requirements which will improve data quality in their business area.
Log and monitor data incidents and issues and work with Data Stewards on root cause analysis and remediation activities.
Maintain the centralised data inventory to ensure the business rules standards and procedures for your department are up to date.
Be the main consult and initial reviewer of all Data Impact Assessments for your departments ensuring the business is compliant with all Boots Group and regulatory standards and procedures.
Work with partners such as Legal Audit Data Protection Records Management and Information Security to ensure we have trusted data foundations in place
Be the subject matter expert and main point of contact for new and existing business areas/projects that use your data domains.
You will advise on data management and compliance driving the importance alignment and cultural change to treat data as a business-wide asset.
Lead the agenda at Data Governance Forums to ensure that we set and monitor data quality Goals map data lineage and prioritise backlogs to improve data issues.
Implement recommendations following data analysis that highlights issues or trends in data quality.
Be an advocate in everything you do and inspire and coach others with your experience with all things relating to data.
What youll need to have (our must-haves)
Preferable background in Data Governance with exposure to data protection audit and policy principles.
Willing to become certified with DAMA.
Passionate about data with attention to detail analytical and problem-solving skills.
Maanage complex competing demands and multiple partners.
Have excellent communication skills and high impact and influencing skills to promote your ideas and move others toward a common vision or goal.
Able to work in a fast paced Omni-channel environment with the ability to see the bigger picture get to the heart of the problem and to drive the right decisions at pace.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the business and IT.
Able to articulate complex data issues to technical and non-technical partners.
Some experience of working within a retail business environment would be an advantage.
Rewards designed for you
Boots Retirement Savings Plan
Discretionary annual bonus
Generous employee discounts
Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
Access to free 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health our Employee Assistance Programme.
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About The Boots Group
The Boots Group is a trusted leader in healthcare pharmacy and retail operating across 11 countries - including the UK Ireland Thailand and Mexico. The Boots Group brands - including Boots Boots Opticians No7 Beauty Company Farmacias Benavides and Alliance Healthcare - are trusted and well recognised healthcare and beauty businesses serving millions of customers and patients every day in communities around the world. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all.
Whats next
If you apply our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. We advertise a role as full-time and we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.
We are looking for you to complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location we will ask you to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.
Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.
We hope to hear from you soon.
Be Brilliant with Boots.
Keywords
Data Governance framework Data Owners Data Custodians and Data Stewards. Log and monitor data incidents and issues and work with Data Stewards on root cause analysis and remediation activities.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- SQL
- Data Collection
- GCP
- Master Data Management
- R
- Data Management
- Clinical Trials
- User Acceptance Testing
- Data Warehouse
- SAS
- Oracle
- Data Analysis Skills
About Company
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