Senior Data Governance Analyst

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days' paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts' portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Want to play a part in one of the largest transformation programmes happening across our business? Zenith will modernise core systems, processes, data, and ways of working across UK & ROI Sales, UK Supply Operations and Central Finance, creating a simpler, more connected organization as part of our initial phase.

The programme includes upgrading to JDE 9.2 and introducing D365 Customer Engagement and Oracle Configure, Price, Quote with D365 Finance & Operations included in the longer-term roadmap. These changes will help to reduce manual processes, improve data quality, boost productivity and collaboration across teams, and strengthen our customer service and decision-making.

The team will work across business functions and with our implementation partners to shape designs and embed sustainable, common ways of working.

The Role:
We are looking for a Senior Data Governance Analyst to support the successful delivery of a major business transformation programme. In this role, you will help embed data governance practices across the programme lifecycle, ensuring data is trusted, well-managed, and aligned with business objectives.
Working closely with business stakeholders and project teams, you will establish governance processes, define data ownership and accountability, support data quality initiatives, and help drive the adoption of governance standards across the organisation

• Support the implementation and ongoing operation of the Data Governance Framework throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Establish and coordinate data governance structures, forums, and governance routines.
• Work with stakeholders to identify and assign Data Owners, Data Stewards, and other governance roles.
• Facilitate governance meetings, workshops, and working groups, ensuring actions are tracked and completed.
• Support the definition and maintenance of Critical Data Elements (CDEs), business glossaries, data standards, and data dictionaries.
• Document and communicate data ownership, accountability, and decision-making frameworks.
• Collaborate with business teams to define data quality requirements, controls, and monitoring processes.
• Work with stakeholders to identify, prioritise, and resolve data issues.
• Monitor governance-related risks and ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Produce governance dashboards, metrics, and status reports for key stakeholders.
• Promote awareness of data governance through training, engagement, and communications activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve governance processes and support the transition of governance activities into business-as-usual operations.

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone's contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.