Data Project Manager - Sustainability and Data Governance

Data Project Manager - Sustainability and Data Governance

Job Type: Contract to Hire

Location: London

Job Ref: BBBH158092_1740505916

Date Added: February 25th, 2025

Consultant: Louis Poynter

Position Overview: My client, a top Global company, is currently looking to recruit a Data Project Manager for Sustainability and Governance to join their team on a contract basis. Please note if successful you will need to set up via an Umbrella Company/PAYE. The role involves driving key data activities across data foundations, metric delivery, and reporting, bridging the gap between data discovery and ingestion, and metric reporting requirements.

Skill Requirements:

• Data domain expertise, including an understanding of data governance, modelling and engineering principles and ways of working.
• Stakeholder engagement and management.
• Strong data Platforms/Foundations technical experience.
• Experience in the Sustainability domain desirable, but not essential.

Essential Experience:

• Experience as a Data Project Manager or similar roles in a product-led environment within R&D, QSC, Customer, Consumer, Finance, HR etc.
• Experience working on a data project lifecycle.
• Experience with Azure Data Lakes and The Power Apps Platform is highly desirable.
• Managed project prioritisation for data-driven products.
• Hands-on technical experience (i.e. Data Analytics, Data Modelling, Data Engineering, Cloud Platforms, BI).
• Knowledge of Data Governance processes and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively convey complex requirements and work with a mixture of senior technical and non-technical stakeholders, focusing on value and prioritisation.
• Experience working within a Data Office and/or Data Platforms business area.
• Experience working and delivering through an agile methodology to deliver rapid value to business stakeholders.
• Project management skills, including interpersonal skills, research, communications (especially listening), demonstrated influence, and the ability to have crucial and difficult conversations.

Preferred Experience:

• A knowledge of the FMCG or Sustainability industries and external perspective on challenges and innovation opportunities.
• Significant experience successfully delivering complex projects to a high standard and within short timeframes. Desirable recent examples of delivery of data or technology products/projects.
• Experience working with MS Purview or other data cataloguing tools.
• Desirable experience working with key product artefacts and reports.

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