Senior Manager, Data Governance & Analytics

RMIT Vietnam is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Governance & Analytics to lead how data is governed, trusted, and leveraged across the University. This is a high-impact role for a senior professional who thrives on driving data-led decision-making, influencing at executive level, and shaping a modern, enterprise-wide data culture.
WHY JOIN RMIT VIETNAM?
At RMIT Vietnam, international exposure meets real-world impact through strong industry and government collaboration. Working at RMIT means building a meaningful career while creating impact in a high-performing environment.
Further insight into our mission, impact and global connections is available in the RMIT Vietnam Profile.
WHAT WE OFFER
Expatriate candidates
- Competitive remuneration package USD for expatriate candidates
- Relocation allowance package starting from US$6,000
- Relocation flights from home location to Vietnam for candidate and direct dependents (if applicable)
- International repatriation flights for the staff and direct dependents at the end of their contract.
- School tuition fees for children to attend the K-12 program in Vietnam, up to US$20,000 per child or US$40,000 for two children per year.
- Premium private medical insurance for employee and immediate family, plus Personal Accident Insurance
- Dedicated support from Global Mobility Team to support with immigration and relocation to Vietnam.
Vietnamese candidates
- Competitive remuneration VND package for Vietnamese candidates.
- 13th month Tet bonus
- Private Health insurance for you and your family, plus Personal Accident Insurance
Other benefits
- Generous annual leave, career leave, volunteer leave and public holidays (Christmas and Tet Holidays)
- Professional development and career advancement
- Access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources
- A vibrant and diverse campus life and more!
POSITION SUMMARY
The Senior Manager, Data Governance & Analytics drives transformative change in how data is governed, accessed, and used across RMIT Vietnam to build a trusted, integrated, and sustainable data and analytics operating model that enables confident decision making, regulatory assurance, and institutional performance. This involves developing a data driven culture and increasing the overall data literacy of the institution through strong stakeholder engagement and communication.
This role holds institutional accountability for data governance, data related risk, and the operation of an effective data and analytics service model across RMIT Vietnam, while maintaining strong alignment with RMIT's Data & Analytics function in Australia. The role provides authoritative oversight of data practices, definitions, and reporting, ensuring executive confidence in institutional, statutory, and performance reporting.
The role will engage with a broad range of key stakeholders across the University to understand how existing data are used to support their functions and business processes, and prioritise, govern, and align data and analytics products to enterprise requirements.
Key Accountabilities summary
- Establish and lead a Data & Analytics Community of Practice (or hub and spoke model) across RMIT Vietnam to align standards, tools, and ways of working.
- Develop and maintain a data-driven culture and foster a data literate organisation at all levels of RMIT Vietnam
- Coordinate effective triage, communication and collaboration between RMIT Vietnam and RMIT Australia's Data & Analytics function, ensuring consistent definitions, standards and effective delivery across geographies.
- Ensure Vietnam requirements are represented in enterprise data products and platforms.
- Engage with diverse audiences to collect, qualify, prioritise and shape innovative data analysis approaches and projects that will provide timely and actionable insights for execution
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure effective data governance and compliance and partner with stakeholders to resolve issues as they arise.
- Ensure alignment with strategies and policies set across RMIT while leading the governance of RMIT Vietnam's information management capability
- Prioritise and oversee the stabilisation and automation of high risk manual data and reporting processes.
- Serve as the Data Protection Officer and act as the accountable authority for Vietnam's data related risks and mitigation, including regulatory, statutory, and reputational risks.
- Strong understanding of emerging tools in AI, data governance and analytics.