Regional Data Governance Manager

The business context:
Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is the €2.5bn+ foodservice division of Unilever. It leads the dynamic Food Service market across its categories and has ambitious growth objectives, marketing a range of professional food and beverage products and services to chefs across 6 clusters in 72 countries.
Digital offers a huge opportunity and future growth for UFS depends on evolving the business model and developing contact strategies to reach the 95% of operators we do not visit. Ambitious targets to transform our business towards a more digitally advanced one have been agreed with the Global board and set in motion.
In line with our ambition to continuously be a data-driven organization, we aim to remove siloes and bridge gaps by synergizing the strategy and data flows from multiple global platform owners without sacrificing the quality and integrity of data.
Scope of work: Southeast Asia & South Asia
Job Description:
• Drive and nurture stable data environment in the region, for use of the local data teams.
• Design, implement, track and drive improvement in data quality metrics.
• Establish data governance by standardizing data capture, ingestion, transformation, mapping and validation processes across several use cases (sales, marketing, operations and more), and rolling this out across the region.
• Identify process simplification, automation, data harmonization or de-duplication opportunities to improve data quality and lead projects to execute the same.
• Perform data validation alongside local and global data engineers.
• Work with regional Digital Selling team to refine and update regional data strategy to support business priorities.
• Provide guidance to local data teams on utilization of SharePoint, Azure Data Warehouses and Databricks within a fast-paced enterprise environment.
• Work closely with global data and tech teams to ensure proper roll-out and data integration for existing and new solutions.
• Coordinate among the global data team and local & regional stakeholders.
• Maintain proper technical documentation and network architectural diagrams for the region.
• Conducts Data Standard trainings and monitor data adherence.
• Support partner teams in developing their data management strategies to seamlessly integrate with the central tracking tools.