Data Governance Junior Manager

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 70 cities across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has more than 6,000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities.

Oliver Wyman is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC]. For more information, visit www.oliverwyman.com.

The Opportunity:

The Data & Analytics team (dna) drives the enterprise data and analytics strategy for the firm. The team is responsible for establishing a data foundation, building capabilities while setting standards and measurements for data quality, compliance, security, and retention of our data assets.

As our Data Governance Junior Manager, you are responsible for overseeing our data governance initiative and supervising the associates responsible for managing our key reference data elements: people (i.e. employees), clients, and cost centres.

To be successful in this role, you should have a deep understanding of data governance principles and best practices. You should also possess strong analytical skills and have experience managing a team of data professionals. You should be comfortable working independently as well as part of a team and be able to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that data is reliable, consistent, and trustworthy.

You will also help define and implement data governance policies and procedures to ensure that data is properly used across the organization. In addition, you will be responsible for monitoring data quality and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standards.

Our ideal candidate is passionate about the field of data, analytics and data governance where they can use their problem-solving skills and creativity to ensure high-quality in our core data elements.

The candidate should be persistent, equipped with high attention to detail and natural curiosity. Since you will be working in a DG team and will contact different stakeholders, collaborative skills are also required. We are looking for candidates with fluent English (spoken and written).

You will help shape the future of what data-driven organizations look like, drive processes for sourcing, analyzing and interpreting data in creative ways.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

Data Governance

• Develop and implement data governance and data quality standards, policies, and procedures to ensure that our data is reliable, consistent, and trustworthy.
• Ensure the completeness and accuracy of our core data sets and identify ways to address and prevent any issues or discrepancies as needed.
• Partner with the various data owners and consumers to define and refine data requirements and to align data practices with business goals and data governance strategies.
• Provide training and guidance to teams involved on data governance resources and best practices.
• Collaborate with technology groups to ensure the high quality and integrity of the data and its proper integration with other systems and processes.
• Facilitate the harmonization of business changes (organizational-type updates, application deployment as well as business process changes) with the necessary data structure (performed in close partnership with technology teams) and adapt data governance solutions to align with the strategic objectives.
• Monitor data quality and ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards.
• Prepare insights and status updates periodically to inform stakeholders about the status of the data and any issues or concerns that need to be addressed.
• Identify opportunities for improvement or optimization and develop and implement plans to address them.
• Assist in the development and delivery of new data sets, metrics, and analytics content to support business strategic decisions.

Team management

• Lead all aspects of recruiting and onboarding of new hires within the data governance team.
• Day to day management of a team of associates responsible for overseeing the people, clients, and cost centres reference data sets.
• Identify skills/learning gaps for team and suggest training and development content.
• Assist team with setting individual performance goals; writes and delivers performance reviews. Provide timely, specific feedback on a regular basis.
• Provide coaching to help team achieve goals, develop skills, or improve performance (when needed).

What we can offer you:

• Full time job contract with an attractive compensation package.
• Flexible benefits package which you can tailor to your needs (e.g. private health care, insurance, sport card, lunch card, gift card, saving plan, pension plan).
• Opportunity for professional growth in a stable, global company.
• Access to mentoring and training programs.
• Inclusive culture with Employee Resources Groups and CSR activities.
• Working in diverse and dynamic teams, friendly and flexible workplace that promotes work-life balance.
• A range of digital collaboration and online communication tools to support effective teamwork.
• Various social initiatives and learning opportunities adapted for virtual settings.
• Fresh fruit, beverages and snacks while working in our modern office near the city center.

Why join us at Oliver Wyman?

At Oliver Wyman, we lead with heart - we love what we do and have fun while we do it We also strive for breakthroughs by questioning, seeking diverse perspectives, and finding powerful and sustainable solutions. If you share these values and want to work as one and own our impact at the same time, be brave and achieve the amazing with us

• We're individuals who are self-starting, motivated, energetic, entrepreneurial about what we do.
• We have the common aspiration to have an impact, leave a legacy and change the world. We have no interest in running a steady-state business. We want to build, grow and shape the environment around us.
• We value an environment where every member of Oliver Wyman is encouraged and expected to voice his or her opinion.
• We believe that to create a true meritocracy we need to remove artificial barriers to opportunity.
• We value people whose lives balance work and non-work activities because we believe they are both more interesting colleagues and are able to make better contributions to the Firm.
• We push ourselves hard to deliver excellence, but we also work to extract the maximum benefit from the flexibility of a project-based business. We provide the ability to take career breaks for personal or family reasons. We fundamentally value each other's time and are sensitive to how it is used. We are an output not input-based culture, have respect for people's personal decisions, and believe that one's workload must be sustainable. We seek balance for ourselves and our colleagues.

Marsh & McLennan Companies and its Affiliates are EOE Minority/Female/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity employers.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

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