About AkzoNobel
Since 1792 weve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color peoples lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands including Dulux International Sikkens and Interpon is trusted by customers around the globe. Were active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. Its what youd expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company thats dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today while creating an even better tomorrow. Lets paint the future together.
For more information please visit
2024 Akzo Nobel N.V. All rights reserved.
Job Purpose
The Knowledge Manager will lead the organizations transition to an AI-ready knowledge state by establishing strong knowledge governance improving content quality and structure and reducing fragmentation of information spread across multiple tools (e.g. SharePoint ServiceNow Confluence Google Drive Slack/Teams ticketing systems wikis). This role will define and drive a scalable knowledge operating model so content is findable trustworthy reusable and ready for AI-powered search assistants and automation.
Key Activities
1) Knowledge Strategy & AI-Readiness
- Define and deliver a knowledge strategy aligned to business goals and AI enablement (search copilots RAG/LLM assistants automation).
- Establish an AI-ready content framework: standards for structure metadata taxonomy freshness and ownership.
- Partner with data/AI teams to ensure knowledge content can be safely and effectively used in AI applications (e.g. retrieval quality chunking readiness access controls).
2) Content Governance & Operating Model
- Create governance for distributed content teams: ownership approval workflows review cadences and lifecycle management.
- Set policies for what should be documented where it should live and how it should be maintained.
- Define and operationalize KPIs (e.g. findability reuse deflection freshness quality score duplication rate).
3) Tool & Content Consolidation (Multi-Tool Environment)
- Assess current knowledge ecosystem and map content across repositories and workflows.
- Rationalize tools and define source of truth principles and publishing models (authoring vs. consumption layers).
- Lead initiatives to reduce duplication consolidate critical knowledge and improve discoverability across systems.
4) Taxonomy Metadata and Information Architecture
- Design and maintain enterprise taxonomy and controlled vocabulary aligned to products processes customers and internal functions.
- Define required metadata and templates to support filtering search relevance and AI retrieval accuracy.
- Implement content standards: naming conventions tagging rules page structures and content types (FAQs SOPs how-tos troubleshooting policies).
5) Knowledge Quality Lifecycle and Content Excellence
- Establish a content quality framework (accuracy clarity completeness accessibility compliance).
- Run regular audits to identify stale/duplicate/low-value content and drive remediation.
- Create templates style guides and playbooks for authors across the organization.
6) Change Management & Enablement
- Drive adoption of knowledge practices through training communications and stakeholder engagement.
- Build a community of practice for knowledge owners and contributors.
- Coach teams on writing for reuse and AI (task-based writing modular content consistent terminology).
7) Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with IT Security Legal/Compliance Product Support/Customer Success HR and Operations to ensure knowledge is governed and usable.
- Align knowledge practices with enterprise search identity/access management and data privacy requirements.
- Support AI initiatives by providing curated high-quality knowledge sources and feedback loops.
Experience
Required Skills & Experience
- 510 years in knowledge management content operations information architecture or enterprise content management.
- Experience building governance models and driving adoption across multiple teams/tools.
- Strong understanding of taxonomy metadata and content lifecycle management.
- Practical experience improving enterprise search and/or preparing content for AI retrieval (RAG) copilots or automation.
- Excellent stakeholder management and change leadership skills.
- Strong writing/editing and content design skills (clarity reuse structured content).
- Experience with tools such as Confluence SharePoint ServiceNow Knowledge Zendesk Guide Salesforce Knowledge Notion Guru or similar.
- Familiarity with search technologies (Microsoft Search Elastic Coveo Google Cloud Search) and relevance tuning.
- Understanding of AI/LLM concepts (RAG embeddings chunking prompt patterns evaluation of answer quality).
- Experience in regulated environments with content compliance retention and access controls.
At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when our organization all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age or disability.
Requisition ID:52242
Required Experience:
Manager
About AkzoNobelSince 1792 weve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color peoples lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands including Dulux International Sikkens and Interpon is trusted by customers around the globe. Were active in more than...
About AkzoNobel
Since 1792 weve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color peoples lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands including Dulux International Sikkens and Interpon is trusted by customers around the globe. Were active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. Its what youd expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company thats dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today while creating an even better tomorrow. Lets paint the future together.
For more information please visit
2024 Akzo Nobel N.V. All rights reserved.
Job Purpose
The Knowledge Manager will lead the organizations transition to an AI-ready knowledge state by establishing strong knowledge governance improving content quality and structure and reducing fragmentation of information spread across multiple tools (e.g. SharePoint ServiceNow Confluence Google Drive Slack/Teams ticketing systems wikis). This role will define and drive a scalable knowledge operating model so content is findable trustworthy reusable and ready for AI-powered search assistants and automation.
Key Activities
1) Knowledge Strategy & AI-Readiness
- Define and deliver a knowledge strategy aligned to business goals and AI enablement (search copilots RAG/LLM assistants automation).
- Establish an AI-ready content framework: standards for structure metadata taxonomy freshness and ownership.
- Partner with data/AI teams to ensure knowledge content can be safely and effectively used in AI applications (e.g. retrieval quality chunking readiness access controls).
2) Content Governance & Operating Model
- Create governance for distributed content teams: ownership approval workflows review cadences and lifecycle management.
- Set policies for what should be documented where it should live and how it should be maintained.
- Define and operationalize KPIs (e.g. findability reuse deflection freshness quality score duplication rate).
3) Tool & Content Consolidation (Multi-Tool Environment)
- Assess current knowledge ecosystem and map content across repositories and workflows.
- Rationalize tools and define source of truth principles and publishing models (authoring vs. consumption layers).
- Lead initiatives to reduce duplication consolidate critical knowledge and improve discoverability across systems.
4) Taxonomy Metadata and Information Architecture
- Design and maintain enterprise taxonomy and controlled vocabulary aligned to products processes customers and internal functions.
- Define required metadata and templates to support filtering search relevance and AI retrieval accuracy.
- Implement content standards: naming conventions tagging rules page structures and content types (FAQs SOPs how-tos troubleshooting policies).
5) Knowledge Quality Lifecycle and Content Excellence
- Establish a content quality framework (accuracy clarity completeness accessibility compliance).
- Run regular audits to identify stale/duplicate/low-value content and drive remediation.
- Create templates style guides and playbooks for authors across the organization.
6) Change Management & Enablement
- Drive adoption of knowledge practices through training communications and stakeholder engagement.
- Build a community of practice for knowledge owners and contributors.
- Coach teams on writing for reuse and AI (task-based writing modular content consistent terminology).
7) Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with IT Security Legal/Compliance Product Support/Customer Success HR and Operations to ensure knowledge is governed and usable.
- Align knowledge practices with enterprise search identity/access management and data privacy requirements.
- Support AI initiatives by providing curated high-quality knowledge sources and feedback loops.
Experience
Required Skills & Experience
- 510 years in knowledge management content operations information architecture or enterprise content management.
- Experience building governance models and driving adoption across multiple teams/tools.
- Strong understanding of taxonomy metadata and content lifecycle management.
- Practical experience improving enterprise search and/or preparing content for AI retrieval (RAG) copilots or automation.
- Excellent stakeholder management and change leadership skills.
- Strong writing/editing and content design skills (clarity reuse structured content).
- Experience with tools such as Confluence SharePoint ServiceNow Knowledge Zendesk Guide Salesforce Knowledge Notion Guru or similar.
- Familiarity with search technologies (Microsoft Search Elastic Coveo Google Cloud Search) and relevance tuning.
- Understanding of AI/LLM concepts (RAG embeddings chunking prompt patterns evaluation of answer quality).
- Experience in regulated environments with content compliance retention and access controls.
At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when our organization all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age or disability.
Requisition ID:52242
Required Experience:
Manager
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