Regional Data Quality & Governance Lead (APAC)

Preferred job locations: Malaysia, India or Indonesia

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• Lead APAC-wide data quality and data governance for global master data, metrics, and reporting standards, acting as the senior regional authority and escalation point across 12 countries.
• Drive adoption, compliance, and continuous improvement of global data standards and definitions across priority domains, ensuring consistent implementation across systems and data sources used in APAC.
• Own the regional documentation framework for data standards, data quality rule catalogs, lineage expectations, and governance SOPs, ensuring strong version control, evidence, and auditability.
• Establish and prioritize risk-based data quality controls for critical datasets; guide automation with platform and IT teams; and ensure clear remediation ownership, tracking, and closure.
• Maintain APAC variance and exception logs, assess business impact, and prepare evidence-based proposals to global data governance councils where regional deviations or standard changes are justified.
• Provide concise, senior-ready data standards and data quality assessments for major investments, PRB submissions, and BCA/project proposals, identifying risks, required mitigations, and readiness gaps.
• Define minimum expectations for end-to-end data lineage and metadata on priority datasets, coordinating with data platform, catalog, and domain owners to close gaps.
• Represent APAC as the primary delegate to global data governance councils and data domain owners, influencing global standards decisions and ensuring regional perspectives are incorporated.
• Build and lead the APAC Data Governance Community, delivering enablement materials, training, and coaching to uplift governance capability across OE and cross-functional teams.
• Partner closely with Operations, OE, IT, Finance, HR, and country leadership to ensure data standards support operational performance, decision-making, and regulatory or contractual obligations.
• Conduct targeted analyses and pilots to quantify the operational or financial impact of data quality and standards gaps, scaling successful improvements across the region.
• Lead a small regional team and operate effectively in a complex matrix environment, influencing without formal authority and raising risks or opposing views clearly and constructively.

• 7–10+ years of professional experience in data management, analytics, or data governance, with proven influence at a regional or multi-country level.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or enforcing data standards, definitions, and data quality governance, including exception handling and escalation.
• Strong background in data quality concepts such as rule design, risk prioritization, evidence packs, remediation workflows, and defect trend analysis.
• Working literacy in data pipelines, lineage, and metadata, with the ability to read, validate, and challenge data flows and system designs in partnership with technical teams.
• Hands-on familiarity with modern analytics and data platforms, preferably including Snowflake, Databricks, Power Query, Power BI, and SharePoint; exposure to WMS/TMS data strongly preferred.
• Experience reviewing project proposals or solution designs for compliance with standards or governance requirements (e.g., data standards, integration patterns, data privacy considerations).
• Ability to translate complex technical or governance documentation into clear, actionable guidance for operational and business stakeholders.
• Proven capability to operate as a regional escalation point, balancing business pragmatism with governance rigor and global alignment.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with confidence engaging senior leaders and influencing decisions in a matrix organization.
• Bachelor’s degree in Data, Engineering, IT, Business, or equivalent professional experience.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as DAMA‑DMBoK, DCAM, TOGAF, Lean/CI practices, or data catalog/lineage tools (e.g., Purview, Collibra, Alation) is desirable.
• Fluent written and spoken English; additional APAC language capability is an advantage.
• Logistics or supply chain industry experience is strongly preferred.
• Job application will close by 8 May 2026