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Data Lead
£36,000 - 66,000
A1 Personnel Employment Agency Ltd
High Street 162,164, Derby
£36,000 - 66,000
Requirements
Must:
- Proven experience in data leadership, data governance, or enterprise data management roles.
- Strong understanding of data lifecycle management, cleansing, migration, and integration within ERP environments (Infor experience advantageous).
- Demonstrated ability to bridge business and technical teams.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, coordination, and influencing skills.
- Highly organised and detail-oriented, able to manage multiple workstreams to tight deadlines.
- Fluent professional English (written and verbal).
- Experience supporting Infor ERP or other large-scale ERP transformations (desirable).
- Experience building group-level data ownership and governance frameworks (desirable).
- Familiarity with complex multi-site manufacturing or engineering environments (desirable).
- Pragmatic and delivery-focused with strong strategic capability.
- Collaborative communicator who builds trust across functions.
- Passionate about data quality, simplification, and operational excellence.
- Comfortable operating within a high-visibility transformation programme.
Responsibilities
- Lead and complete data cleansing and harmonisation across all sites and business units.
- Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and migration readiness in line with ERP construction and transition phases.
- Oversee data filtering, simplification, and validation activities aligned to delivery timelines.
- Facilitate mapping of legacy data structures to the Infor ERP data model, ensuring full business alignment.
- Act as the bridge between business users, stream leads, and technical teams to ensure seamless data translation.
- Coordinate data conversion and migration cycles across key phases: System Testing, End-User Testing, Final Migration & Go-Live.
- Work with technical experts to ensure ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tools are developed and embedded to industrialise data transfers.
- Define and implement the blueprint for Group Master Data and Data Governance.
- Establish consistent data definitions, hierarchies, ownership models, and quality controls across key business domains.
- Leverage ERP platform capabilities to embed scalable governance practices.
- Serve as the functional data lead within the ERP project structure.
- Collaborate with technical data teams, project leadership, stream leads, and business data owners.
- Ensure full alignment of data activities with overall transformation milestones.
- Translate business requirements into structured governance frameworks and actionable data standards.
- Ensure reporting continuity post go-live through consistent and structured data design.
- Enable operational, site, and group-level reporting consistency.
- Lay the groundwork for future analytics and business intelligence capability.
- Promote simplified, standardised data structures to improve visibility and decision-making.
- Following ERP go-live, transition into a permanent Group Data Lead / Data Officer role responsible for cross-system data harmonisation across ERP, Industry 4.0, IoT, and digital manufacturing systems.
- Establish sustainable data governance and stewardship frameworks.
- Maintain a single source of truth across the organisation.
- Drive simplification, optimisation, and continuous improvement of group-level reporting.
Description
We are a leading international manufacturer of aerospace finished components, operating in a hybrid model within the UK. Our company is at the forefront of a major digital transformation programme, and we are looking for a Group Data Lead to join our team. This role presents a strategic career-defining opportunity, allowing you to drive successful data delivery for a large-scale ERP implementation and shape the long-term data governance and reporting framework. We offer a competitive salary range of £45,000 - £70,000, depending on experience, and require attendance once per month at one of our UK sites.
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