Senior Manager - Data Management

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Description:

• Design, coordinate and implement an articulated data strategy plans based on global, regional and local requirements.
• Support the development and delivery of operational, analytical and transactional systems that provide measurable and differentiated business value to the enterprise.
• Maintain and develop a wide network of effective relationships with other department heads to align departmental priorities across operation, technology and business stakeholders.
• Communicate locally with appropriate stakeholders the global data initiatives and support the adherence to global data standards.
• Communicate regional business data requirements such that the design of global systems include these requirements for planning and design purposes.
• Support a diverse set of overlapping regional stakeholders in navigating the balance between short-term imperatives with long-term strategic objectives.
• Provide insights to colleagues on how to optimize their current processes and achieve continuous states of improved data quality.
• Help to educate stakeholders on the ‘art of the possible’ with regard to their data and help to bridge business and technical discussions in this regard.
• Recruit, train, mentor and manage a team of first-class data professionals as appropriate to support regional data needs.
• Guide the development of data-oriented dashboards that inspire colleagues to think expansively and outside the box as well as dashboards that delight clients.
• Work with regional business users on translating their user cases into business and technical requirements according to global standards, including leading business strategy planning efforts and developing high-level strategies across departments.

Requirements:

• Experience within a similar role, ideally coming from the insurance or financial services sector.  Open to candidates from other B2B industries as well.
• Extensive hands-on experience with data systems and their associated operations. 
• Experience with multiple Latin America countries is preferred but open to candidates that have multi-market exposure as well.
• Deep and abiding appreciation for all things data - its role, impact, challenges and potential within an organization. It is especially important to be knowledgeable in the full gamut of data quality dimensions and processes.
• Strong stakeholder and people management skills.  The ability to attract, train, manage and retain talent.
• The ability to create differentiated, insightful and inspiring dashboards in concert data management information colleagues.
• Solid understanding of data management and data governance concepts, processes, technologies and issues.
• Experience structuring and managing behaviour change across complex, global organizations.
• Fluent in both English and Spanish is mandatory.