Manager, Data Governance

Manager, Data Governance Closed 📅 Week ago 💰 $110k-$120k 📊 Data 🟠 Manager Job Description Who We Are Chomps is America’s fastest-growing meat snack brand, redefining convenient snacking with a commitment to real ingredients and bold, satisfying flavors. Crafted from 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef and venison, along with antibiotic-free turkey and chicken, each Chomps meat stick delivers 10+ grams of high-quality protein without sugar, hormones, soy, dairy, artificial preservatives, artificial nitrates, or MSG. Seasoned with a blend of flavorful herbs and spices, Chomps provides a nutritious protein snack for the whole family. As a minority-owned, family-operated, and B Corporation-certified business, Chomps prioritizes thoughtful sourcing and recently earned the non–ultra-processed food certification through the non-GMO project. Discover a new standard in snacking at www.chomps.com. Traits of a Chompian If you’ve been called scrappy, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You’re a team player who’s self-motivated and action-oriented. You’re committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You’re a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you’ll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience. You’re hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you. \*\* Accepting applications through EOD 9/2/26 ** What You Will Do As the Manager, Data Governance, you will lead the development of Chomps’ enterprise data governance and master data management capabilities. You will establish the policies, ownership, stewardship, and quality practices that make critical data trusted and usable, while leading the selection and phased implementation of a new MDM platform. This hands-on manager role will work cross-functionally and may manage people, processes, and third-party resources. In this role, you will build and execute an enterprise data governance roadmap aligned with Chomps’ business priorities, growth strategy, and evolving data needs. You’ll establish clear ownership, stewardship, decision rights, policies, standards, and escalation paths across priority data domains to support trusted, high-quality data throughout the organization. A key focus of the role will be leading the evaluation, selection, design, and phased implementation of a new Master Data Management (MDM) platform and the business processes that support it. This includes defining master data models, hierarchies, match and merge logic, survivorship rules, golden records, approval workflows, and lifecycle controls that enable consistent and reliable data management at scale. Working across functions, you’ll enhance the quality, governance, and usability of customer, customer hierarchy, item, product, SKU, and other critical master and reference data. You’ll also expand the use of Microsoft Purview to strengthen data cataloging, business glossary management, ownership, classification, lineage, and trusted data discovery across the enterprise. To drive measurable outcomes, you’ll establish data quality standards, scorecards, issue management processes, and governance routines that improve accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness. You’ll lead governance forums, steward enablement, communications, training, and change adoption efforts, helping embed strong data management practices into everyday operations. Responsibilities Data Governance Strategy & Operating Model: Own and continuously improve Chomps’ data governance framework, policies, standards, processes, decision forums, and accountability model. Define roles, RACI assignments, expectations, KPIs, meeting cadences, and escalation paths for data owners, stewards, process owners, and technology teams. Prioritize governance initiatives based on business value and risk, identify obstacles early, and drive practical improvements across functions. Master Data Management & Platform Implementation: Assess current master data domains, source systems, workflows, ownership, quality issues, duplicate records, hierarchies, integrations, and downstream usage. Define requirements, evaluation criteria, implementation options, and the business case; lead vendor discovery, demonstrations, proofs of concept, reference checks, and platform selection. Own the implementation roadmap and coordinate internal teams, vendors, and implementation partners to deliver the selected MDM platform, domain rollouts, integrations, controls, and adoption outcomes. Data Quality, Stewardship & Adoption: Define data quality dimensions, rules, thresholds, scorecards, monitoring, issue triage, root-cause ownership, remediation, and prevention practices. Build and coach a network of data owners and stewards; create the documentation, playbooks, training, and communications needed for consistent execution. Align metadata, glossary, lineage, ownership, security, and quality information across Microsoft Purview, the selected MDM platform, and Chomps’ data and analytics ecosystem. Who You Are Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Management, Computer Science, Business, Supply Chain, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience 5