Job Description
About the Role:
The Data Manager owns the end-to-end definition, quality, and governance of commercial, sales, and product data used for selling. The role ensures that data is trusted, consistent, and fit for purpose across systems, reporting, and decision-making.
This is a hands-on ownership role, accountable for data standards, lifecycle, and outcomes, working across functions rather than leading a team.
Your future responsibilities:
- Act as the single point of accountability for commercial, sales, and product (for selling) data.
- Own data definitions, hierarchies, attributes, and usage standards across the data lifecycle.
- Ensure data is consistently applied across source systems, reporting, and downstream consumers.
- Define and enforce data quality standards, controls, and validation rules.
- Proactively identify, prioritise, and resolve data quality issues and root causes.
- Maintain documentation for data definitions, rules, and ownership.
- Partner with data governance forums to ensure alignment to enterprise standards.
- Ensure data supports core selling motions including pipeline, bookings, pricing, product eligibility, and performance reporting.
- Work closely with sales operations, commercial, product, and finance teams to align data to business needs.
- Support new product launches, pricing changes, and go to market updates through data readiness.
- Oversee how commercial, sales, and product data flows across CRM, ERP, pricing, and reporting platforms.
- Partner with technology and data engineering teams to define requirements and prioritise fixes or enhancements.
- Validate that changes to systems or processes do not compromise data integrity.
- Ensure that reports, dashboards, and KPIs are underpinned by consistent, trusted data.
- Act as the point of escalation for data definition or metric disputes.
- Enable analysts and reporting teams with clear, governed datasets.
- Identify opportunities to simplify data structures, reduce manual effort, and improve scalability.
- Drive improvements in data processes, controls, and ways of working.
- Support transformation initiatives by embedding strong data foundations.
Key Deliverables:
- Clearly defined and governed commercial, sales, and product data model.
- Improved data quality, consistency, and trust across the organisation.
- Documented data standards, definitions, and ownership.
- Data that reliably supports selling, reporting, and decisionmaking.
Your profile:
- Experience in a data management, data ownership, or data governance role.
- Strong understanding of commercial, sales, and product data in a selling context.
- Proven experience improving data quality and defining data standards.
- Strong understanding of master data and data lifecycle management.
- Ability to operate with accountability and influence without line management.
- Experience working with CRM, ERP, and pricing systems.
- Exposure to enterprise data governance frameworks.
- Experience supporting largescale change or transformation initiatives.
- Ownership driven and comfortable being accountable for outcomes.
- Structured, detail focused and disciplined in approach.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Pragmatic, solution-oriented, and commercially minded.
- Comfortable operating across ambiguity and complexity.
What we offer:
- An exciting job in a globally active company
- Mentoring: You can expect intensive support and qualified feedback from one of our mentors during your induction
- Training: A comprehensive training program within our Global Client Delivery Academy and a variety of other training options in our comprehensive learning portal
- Work-life balance: Working time account, flexible working hours and hybrid working
- Further development: Excellent growth and career opportunities at local & international level
- Togetherness: Working together in a dynamic, global environment characterized by team spirit and an appreciative atmosphere
- A high degree of responsibility with the market leader in the industry with one of the largest product portfolios
- Flat hierarchies, an open corporate culture and a very pleasant working atmosphere
- Modern office in a central location with state-of-the-art infrastructure
Additional Information
Our Benefits
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
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About NIQ
NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.
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