Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Data Transformation

CHEP helps move more goods to more people in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets crates and containers. We employ approximately 13000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model the worlds biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you Youll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere and small enough to get you there sooner. Youll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. Youll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through ourHybrid Work Model.

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Lead the development implementation and scaling of core data management capabilities including data quality metadata master and reference data content and document management and data storage and operations.
• Coordinate delivery of data management activities across business technology legal compliance and regional teams to ensure consistent standards controls and ways of working.
• Embed data management into major technology and business programmes such as ERP analytics and digital services ensuring data requirements risks and dependencies are fully addressed.
• Establish and maintain data governance processes including forums decisionmaking structures and minimum control standards to ensure compliance and accountability.
• Build and lead multidisciplinary teams responsible for delivering data management improvements including programme management analysis and change enablement.
• Develop and implement the longterm operating model for enterprise data management defining data roles responsibilities workflows and capability uplift across the organisation.
• Oversee adoption of data management tools and platforms enabling greater operational efficiency improved data quality and consistent data practices across regions and functions.
• Partner with architecture and technology leaders to define futurestate operational and analytical data models ensuring alignment with broader transformation strategies and strategic priorities.

As Head of Enterprise Data Transformation youll lead the enterprise-wide transformation needed to strengthen Brambles data management capability and establish trusted data as a genuine strategic business asset.

Youll be here to drive the transformation not simply inherit BAU. Youll mobilise the programme create momentum and bring the delivery discipline adoption and change needed to build a sustainable capability before transitioning long-term ownership into the appropriate business governance and capability teams.

Youll bring together Technology Services Digital Enterprise Data Management Data Governance ERP/Simplify Global Process Owners Global Process Leads and business leaders around one coordinated enterprise data transformation roadmap connecting the programme to business priorities risk reduction and future ERP readiness.

Youll act as the central point of coordination and escalation for the Data Management Programme creating transparency around progress and ensuring success is measured by more than milestones. Well look to you to demonstrate tangible improvements in data maturity control effectiveness adoption and business value.

Crucially youll help make the transformation stick. Youll lead the change communication and data literacy agenda strengthen data ownership and stewardship and work with HR the Transformation Office and business leaders to embed the operating model and ways of working needed for sustainable BAU ownership.

Major/Key Accountabilities

Strategy & Transformation

• Develop maintain and govern the enterprise data transformation roadmap aligned to Brambles strategic priorities risk appetite and ERP/Simplify foundation requirements.
• Translate business risk ERP and data capability priorities into a sequenced portfolio of transformation initiatives with clear outcomes owners and dependencies.
• Ensure data transformation investments and resource priorities are aligned to measurable business value maturity uplift and control effectiveness.

Programme Leadership

• Lead execution of the enterprise Data Management Programme coordinating delivery across TS Digital Enterprise Data Management Data Governance ERP/Simplify GPO/GPL and business teams.
• Chair or lead programme governance and steering forums ensuring transparent visibility of progress risks issues dependencies and decisions.
• Provide escalation management where capability ownership delivery dependencies data standards decision rights or business adoption are unclear or blocked.

ERP/Simplify Data Readiness

• Ensure priority ERP/Simplify data dependencies are visible including data ownership master data standards data quality remediation needs migration readiness assumptions and data operating model requirements.
• Partner with Global Process Owners Global Process Leads and the ERP/Simplify programme to embed data ownership and governance into process harmonisation and future ERP decision-making.

Operating Model Controls & Change

• Define programme requirements for the future data operating model including decision rights handover points stewardship engagement and BAU ownership expectations.
• Lead organisational change communication and adoption activities required to embed new data management practices data literacy and data-driven ways of working.
• Work with accountable owners to ensure data quality metadata master data governance and control requirements are transitioned into sustainable BAU practices.

Benefits Realisation & Reporting

• Define and track transformation outcomes maturity improvements risk reduction adoption indicators and business value measures.
• Provide clear evidence-based reporting to executive stakeholders leadership forums and risk communities.

Experience

• Technical leader with experience with enterprise data management master data data quality metadata data governance data ownership or data stewardship improvement programmes.
• Significant experience leading enterprise-wide transformation or data management programmes in large global and matrixed organisations.
• Experience defining and delivering operating model change governance structures decision rights and capability transition to BAU ownership.
• Strong experience managing senior executive stakeholders and influencing outcomes through resources and teams that do not directly report into the role.
• Experience supporting ERP or major enterprise platform transformation including data readiness process harmonisation and business adoption dependencies.
• Experience defining benefits maturity measures KRIs control outcomes and executive reporting for transformation programmes.
• Experience working with external partners advisors or vendors to deliver specialist transformation data or assurance outcomes.

Knowledge

• Data governance frameworks data ownership and stewardship models
• Master data management data quality management metadata and lineage awareness
• Enterprise transformation leadership and programme execution
• Strategic planning roadmap development and portfolio prioritisation
• Programme governance executive reporting and escalation management
• ERP/Simplify data readiness process harmonisation and data operating model dependencies
• Risk controls KRIs compliance awareness and evidence-based maturity reporting
• Change management communications adoption and enterprise data literacy
• Business case development benefits realisation and value tracking
• Operating model design RACI/decision-rights definition and transition to BAU ownership
• Senior stakeholder engagement constructive challenge and executive communication
• Financial commercial vendor and partner management acumen
• Strong influencing facilitation and problem-solving skills in a complex global matrix

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Business Technology Engineering Data Management or related discipline.

Desirable Qualifications

• Masters degree or equivalent experience.
• Project programme or change management certification.
• Data management governance or architecture certification (DAMA DCAM CDMP or similar).

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