Data Steward - Sourcing (f/m/x) (15-month Assignment)

Data Steward - Sourcing (f/m/x) (15-month Assignment)

in Mars Petcare

Commercial Department

Location: Warsaw (Poland) or Hyderabad (India)

Hybrid working (up to 50%)

* Fully virtual recruitment experience *

This is Fixed time project role for 15-month Assignment with possibility to extend.

The Data Steward is accountable for enabling and embedding the organizations’ Data Stewardship Framework across Commercial program-relevant data domains, ensuring its principles and practices are adopted and sustained within the business. The role focuses on activating data ownership, stewardship processes, governance structures, business rules, and data quality standards as defined in the guide, scoped to data assets created or significantly changed by the program. Working across business, regional, digital, data, and program teams, the role ensures these assets are governed, maintained, and utilized in a consistent and sustainable manner. Data Steward role will support the transition of program delivered data assets into business-as-usual stewardship, leaving behind an embedded operating model aligned with the existing Business Data Stewardship Guide.

What would be your key responsibilities?

• Embed Data Governance: Enable and embed the Business Data Stewardship Framework, ensuring its principles, standards, and quality requirements are consistently adopted across all workstreams and regions.
• Establish Governance Processes: Setup stewardship processes, forums, and escalation paths to support program delivery and resolve data issues within scope.
• Define Data Rules & Standards: Develop, document, and champion business rules, standards, and data definitions for program-relevant assets to ensure consistency and integrity.
• Manage Data Quality Metrics & Monitoring: Define, establish, and maintain data quality metrics and monitoring processes in collaboration with business and technical teams.
• Drive Data Quality Improvements: Assess data quality maturity, identify risks or gaps, and manage a prioritized backlog of improvements to drive resolution.
• Foster Collaboration & Trust: Build strong relationships across business, regional, digital, and data teams to represent data requirements and act as a trusted advisor on stewardship.
• Promote Data Culture: Advocate for clear data ownership accountability and support a data-driven culture through education and practical enablement.
• Lead BAU Transition: Manage the sustainable transition of program-delivered data assets to BAU owners, including onboarding, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
• Report Progress: Regularly report progress and updates through established program governance forums.
  

What are we looking for?

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Economics, Statistics, Finance or equivalent experience.
• Experience in data governance, stewardship, data quality management, or related disciplines.
• Hands-on experience with data quality and data cataloguing tools (e.g. Collibra, Alation, Purview or equivalent).
• SQL knowledge, sufficient to query, interpret, and validate data independently.
• Experience activating or embedding governance frameworks, stewardship processes, or ownership models - ideally within an existing framework rather than building from scratch.
• Experience working across business and technology teams in complex organizations.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and influencing skills.
• Experience in supporting transformation or business improvement programs ideally with sourcing (procurement).
• Experience in procurement, supply chain or enterprise master data environments related to procurement.
• Experience supporting ERP, Source-to-Pay. or enterprise transformation programs.
• Experience operating within multinational, global and matrixed organizations.
• Excellent command of English

What can you expect from Mars?

• This is Fixed time project role for 15-month Assignment with possibility to extend and develop.
• Attractive financial conditions with Business Bonus and Christmas Bonus.
• We will also look after your safety and well-being by offering you rich benefits package including life insurance, private medical care, Employee Assistance Program fully covered by Mars, MultiBenefit Program.
• Subsidized meals. Extra savings scheme to support You in long perspective.
• Support in career building through personalized development plan.
• On-line & On-site shop with attractive discounts on our products that Your family and friend are going to love.
• Possibility to participate in volunteering initiatives during working hours.

*Depending on location, benefits may be slightly different*

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