Vice President, Enterprise Data Governance & Analytics

Position Summary

The Vice President of Enterprise Data Governance & Analytics is a new role at Expeditors that will be responsible for establishing leading and scaling Expeditors Enterprise Data Governance and Analytics functions. This role ensures our data is trusted meets the needs of our business and is strategically leveraged to create value and insights across all products services and business units.

This leader will partner with Business Stakeholders and Global Technology to activate and execute on the companys Data Strategyaligning people process and technology for cross-functional enablement to govern build sustain and utilize data in service of strategic goals of customer service innovation and sustainable growth.

This role is essential to ensuring the success of our coresystem modernization which depends on highquality wellgoverned data. The VP will work closely with our Global Technology Leadership and upstream process area owners across our organization to confirm that accurate governed AI and modernizationready data is in place before any transition occurs. This includes identifying and driving necessary operational and process changes to ensure data quality is established at the source.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership & Alignment

• Serve as the business-aligned leader to execute on Expeditors Data Strategy ensuring clear alignment with company strategy technology roadmaps and organizational priorities.
• Build strong partnerships with Product and Service Business Development Global Technology Finance and Accounting Legal and Compliance Leaders to ensure data governance and analytics efforts meet operational customer and strategic goals.
• Partner with Global Technology leaders to create measurable multiyear strategic plans operating structures management systems and investment priorities.
• Partner with Business Stakeholders to ensure data capabilities directly support business outcomes.
• Champion data readiness as a prerequisite for successful system modernization and AI enablement ensuring that governance and data quality standards are embedded into all modernization and AI enablement planning and decision-making.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Expeditors senior leadership team on data analytics data-related AI readiness and digital transformation topics.

2. Enterprise Data Governance

• Lead the Enterprise Data Governance team to build and maintain a comprehensive Data Governance framework including policies standards data stewardship roles data lifecycle management and accountability models for all non-financial data.
• Ensure governance structures scale across global geographic regions products and business units to ensure data accuracy completeness lineage fidelity and fitness for purpose.
• Partner with Data Security Legal and Compliance on data privacy data residency regulatory requirements and access controls.
• Establish and drive enterprise-wide data quality metrics monitoring mechanisms and remediation processes for all non-financial data.

• Collaborate with Global Technology teams operational leadership and product areas to design and implement process changes required to achieve modernization and AI enablement goals with accurate governed and business-ready data by cleanup and certification efforts.

• Develop and enforce governance requirements tied to core-system modernization and AI enablement ensuring upstream processes generate accurate complete and governed data to meet critical requirements.

3. Analytics & Business Insights

• Lead Expeditors enterprise analytics vision including modernization maturity model progression self-service and advanced analytics capability development for non-financial data.
• Oversee the Enterprise Analytics team responsible for reporting dashboards forecasting decision intelligence and adoption of new analytical technologies.
• Partner with product and operations teams to embed analytics into key workflows and customer-facing solutions.
• Create clear ROI frameworks for analytics initiatives.

4. Technology & Innovation

• Evaluate and guide investments in analytics tooling governance technologies and automation solutions.
• Assess emerging trends and technologies that advance the enterprises data capabilities.
• Work with Global Technology teams to ensure architecture decisions and data products support enterprise data needs.

Qualifications :

Leadership and Culture

• Exemplify Expeditors Leadership Core Values:
  • Lead with integrity humility and authenticity
  • Care deeply for our teams and build trust through respect and support
  • Engage fully be present and decisive
  • Listen actively be approachable and welcome feedback
  • Achieve extraordinary results and be accountable to ourselves and each other
• Exhibit and promote the companys cultural attributes: Appearance Attitude Confidence Curiosity Excellence Integrity Pride Resolute Sense of Humor and Visionary.

Other Key Requirements

• 10 years of experience in global logistics supply chain or technology-driven service organizations.
• 5 years of experience in data governance analytics data strategy or related leadership roles.
• Strong leadership track record with ability to influence collaborate and communicate effectively across all organizational levels.
• Working knowledge of data governance frameworks data management practices and data lifecycle management.
• Understanding of modern analytics environments (cloud data platforms BI tooling AI/ML concepts).
• Proven experience leading enterprise functions and global initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead cross-functional teams.
• Prior experience influencing enterprise architecture and platform decisions.
• Experience driving data readiness and data governance standards in support of system modernization or large-scale platform transformation initiatives strongly preferred.

Additional Information :

Expeditors offers excellent benefits:

• Base salary listed this role is also eligible for bonus and performance based restricted stock unit (RSU) awards
• Paid Vacation Holiday Sick Time
• Health Plan: Medical
• Life Insurance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Training and Personnel Development Program
• Growth opportunities within the company
• Employee Referral Program Bonus

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time