Manager, Data Governance and Enablement

Do you want to work for a global company that creates remarkable experiences through people, products, and food? If you want to be part of a rewarding People First culture that values relationships, trust, and taking the long view, then this is the place for you. Henny Penny was named the 2021 Dayton Business of the Year for many good reasons. Read on to learn more!

The primary responsibility of the Manager, Data Governance Enablement evaluating and prioritizing business and technology requests into actionable initiatives and guiding the team on translating this work into actionable results and recommendations. This role oversees and conducts business analysis, requirements gathering, root-cause analysis, and data governance and quality documentation while influencing change and driving value within the organization.

What We Offer:

• An opportunity to work for a company that is 100% employee-owned. As an employee-owner, you will be enrolled in our employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) program following one year of service. This is a qualified retirement plan that is separate from your 401k and consists only of Henny Penny shares that will be paid out when you retire (or when you leave the company, but we hope you’ll stay)
• Annual company performance bonus in addition to base salary
• Flexibility to work from home 2 days per week
• Defined career paths so you’ll always know what’s next and what steps can get where you want to go
• Professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement and unlimited free access to LinkedIn Learning courses
• A competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, PTO, and paid holidays
• Expanded onsite wellness clinic offering preventive care services such as wellness screenings, annual physicals, and related lab work at no cost to employee-owners
• Achieve total well-being at our new Wellspring and Owners Hall facility, featuring 24/7 fitness center with a wide variety of cardio and strength training equipment. This facility reflects our continuous evolution in supporting our valued employee owners.
• Activities including department outings, holiday parties, and our annual company-wide Thanksgiving Dinner

What You'll Be Doing

• Collaborate with Business Partners: Gather requirements, create use cases, and construct value propositions that capture the opportunity, risk, and value of data issues.
• Data Governance Evangelism: Develop a strong steward community across the business and create opportunities to integrate governance with day-to-day activities and key projects.
• Promote Data Quality: Develop and implement data quality standards and procedures while educating business users on data quality best practices.
• Communication: Deliver targeted communications through multiple channels, clearly articulating the value, status, and potential of data governance projects.
• Enablement Roadmap: Guide the development of quarterly updates and reports that support the data governance team in creating and ensuring quality content.
• Strategic Engagement: Anticipate potential governance needs in business and technology initiatives and issues.
• Risk and Privacy Mindset: Evaluate data governance initiatives with a focus on risk, privacy, and safety.
• Leadership: Lead advanced data governance initiatives and engage in external industry forums on data governance, data quality, and metadata management.
• Continuous Improvement: Review existing data governance frameworks to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Stakeholder Communication: Document and communicate the impact of changes to relevant stakeholders.
• Workshops and Training: Facilitate workshops to educate business partners about best practices for data governance.
• Support Compliance: Assist Legal, Compliance, and Cyber Security with annual assessments and act as a subject matter expert on data governance.
• Master Data Management: Partner with data engineering and business partners to support and implement master data management initiatives.
• Data Projects Leadership: Lead data projects with sensitive contexts and privacy concerns.
• Council Leadership: Lead the data governance communication with key stake holders to address and resolve data issues.
• Executive Presentations: Occasionally lead presentations on the roadmap, current projects and objectives on data governance initiatives.
• Consistently models the Company values and expected behaviors.
• Other duties as assigned.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor of Science (B.S) Information Technology, Data Management, Computer Science, or related field. Required
• 6+ years data governance with proven experience developing and implementing data governance and risk management practices at an enterprise level. Required
• Excellent judgment and ability to analyze issues quickly and independently.
• Self-starter, open-minded, and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Experience developing requirements and use cases and translating these into actionable results and recommendations.
• Familiarity with industry-leading data governance and quality platforms (e.g., Alation, Informatica, Collibra).
• Ability to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders.
• Experience in designing, executing, and improving processes.
• Workshop facilitation, change management methodologies, and project management skills.
• Familiarity with data literacy, data management, and governance policies and standards
• Certified Data Management (CDMP) within 1 Year Preferred

About Us

We’re known in our industry for making the best commercial food equipment in the world. Every day, millions of people eat in restaurants operating Henny Penny equipment. We’re a behind-the-scenes engine in the world’s most demanding kitchens, including long-term partners like McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, KFC, and Wendy’s. We’re 1,000+ employee-owners who thrive by living a People First mission: to support employees in becoming the best version of themselves both personally and professionally.

We recently completed the largest expansion in our history with the addition of 150,000 square feet on our Eaton campus. This expansion drives development of the world’s most reliable, easy-to-use equipment with an innovative new space for global research and development. We have several collaborative spaces for our project teams, a dedicated electrical engineering lab for our hardware and software engineers, a full model shop for rapid prototyping, and a brand-new test lab that has 300 feet of hood space to test new equipment on our product roadmap. On top of that, we have a new state-of-the-art kitchen for our food science group to meet with our customers, understand what they need, and then dial in our equipment to help them make legendary menu items.

Henny Penny is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), marital status, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.