Summary:
The Data Governance Manager is responsible for executing policies, processes and monitoring of practices to ensure increased value from governing critical Cox Automotive data. This includes ensuring data is commonly understood, easy to find, access, and trace, that it meets quality needs, is appropriately shared across Cox Automotive, and is managed with contractual and competitive risks in mind. They will focus on executing plans to balance regulatory requirements, data risk, and data driven decision-making for Cox Automotive. They will coordinate with legal, data strategy, security, operations, and product/engineering teams to develop governance initiatives, policies, and procedures. They will support adoption of new processes and technology, while minimizing change and impact via training, communication, and change management.
What You'll Do:
Responsibilities :
- Operate and monitor data governance processes and procedures for all areas of Cox Automotive
- Execute on tactical data governance initiatives that are on the roadmap, acting as a central subject matter expert that partners with team members that are federated throughout Cox Automotive
- Monitor data governance risk across the organization and ensure corrective actions are taken
- Roll out global data policies related to data quality, lineage, classification, retention, and required metadata on critical data domains for improved data posture at Cox Automotive
- Partner with Data Strategy and Legal teams to collect, store, research, and summarize data contracts to identify permissible use of data in Cox Automotive ecosystem
- Catalog critical source data at Cox Automotive with metadata that allows insights into how data is created, obtained, used, and shared
- Classify, label, and tag priority data to produce transparent inventory of where data is and how it is used
- Partner with teams to trace data lineage internally and externally
- Provide data domain ownership assistance, creating templates, policies, and expectations for owners
- Monitor data policies for adherence
- Prepare and lead governance council subgroups to recommend policies, decisions, and execution plans
- Execute on definitions, design models, policy creation and metadata collection in technical tools
- Use tools like domain maps, data models, heat maps, data flows, business glossaries, and data dictionaries to help illustrate how data is created, obtained, used, and shared internally and externally
- Lead change management and training endeavors to ensure success of governance policies
- Grow and maintain a communications platform for disseminating information to the enterprise
- Settle disputes between parties effectively and for the best of Cox Automotive; be autonomous and make decisions without oversight when appropriate
Who You Are:
- BA or BS Degree required (i.e., Business, IT, Finance)
- 6+ years of experience in related field (i.e., data and analytics, governance, project management, change management, IT)
- Minimum 2 years of experience working on cross-functional, high-performing teams
- Highly quantitative and data-oriented with the ability to analyze data and make strategic decisions, as well the ability to make decisions with ambiguous or incomplete data
- Demonstrated ability to be a highly functioning team member and work on initiatives that require cross-functional teams
- Excellent interpersonal, organization, and project management skills
- Desire to learn about all parts of the Cox Automotive business to better understand the data and related processes
- Experience in written and oral presentations
- Experience in change management, including eliciting information and requirements, facilitating meetings and discussions to reach decisions, creating reference and training materials, and presenting to groups.
- Creative thinker with an open mind to learn and explore new areas and opportunities, and to develop and recommend opportunities and solutions
- Strong ability to give clear and consistent instructions to team members, and to lead, motivate and supervise project and/or working teams
- Preferred experience in Data Governance, Data Privacy, Data Management, Data Architecture, Data Discovery, Metadata Management, and Data Lineage
- Preferred experience in the automotive space
- Up to 10% time travel requirement
- Must live within a commutable distance to the office
USD 108,800.00 - 181,400.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $108,800.00 - $181,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
About Cox Automotive
At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!
About Cox
Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today!
Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page .
Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer - All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.
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