Data Steward

The Asset Risk Data Steward is responsible for ensuring the oversight, quality and integrity of Asset Risk’s data assets. An expert in the Asset Risk business area, you will also collaborate with enterprise data governance stakeholders to ensure broader alignment on policies, data standards, and support data management initiatives.

Key roles will include:

• Ensure Asset Risk adherence to central and local data governance frameworks, policies and procedures, ensuring data consistency and compliance.
• Maintain Asset Risk data governance documentation and data lineage enabling data transparency and usability.
• Monitor and manage Asset Risk data quality, via dashboards, in a collaborative and proactive manner.
• Ensure governance artefacts are up to date and refined on a regular basis.
• Responsible for the reporting of data governance health & activities across Asset Risk, and coordinate solutions with stakeholders to fix issues and manage risks.
• Responsible for planning, managing and socialising Asset Risk data governance activities and timelines.
• Ensure data roles in Asset Risk are defined and understood, provide training and support wider data literacy best practice activities.
• Responsible for coordinating the Asset Risk Model Risk Management (MRM) framework and ensure practices appropriately align with data and model governance principles.
• Support Asset Risk data and MRM audit & 3rd party engagement activities.
• Support future enterprise data governance & AI governance activities.
• Advocate for Asset Risk data needs.

About You:

You will be an engaging and detail orientated individual who is passionate about working with people and data.

• Communication skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills to articulate data policies and collaborate with various stakeholders.
• Collaborative: Ability to work well with cross-functional teams, including Technology, business units, and data owners.
• Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to changing data environments and evolving industry standards.
• Proactive: A proactive approach to identifying potential data issues before they become significant problems.

Minimum Criteria:

• You will have gained experience of working in a Data Governance or similar role.
• Experience of working effectively with multiple stakeholders (business and technical, enterprise and local) in the delivery of agreed data governance requirements.
• Working knowledge of Data Governance principles, approaches and practices.
• Working knowledge of Data Governance and Data Quality tools (e.g. Informatica Axon & EDC, Ataccama).
• Experience of Data Quality monitoring and improvement practices and techniques.
• Attention to detail and ability to plan and prioritise.
• Ability to communicate data governance practices & principles with passion and clarity.

About The Company:

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 800,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions.
• We drive change.
• We care.

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:

• Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus.
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period).
• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days.
• Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office.
• 1 day for volunteering.
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover.
• Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help.
• Funded health screening for over 50s.
• Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans.
• Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go.
• Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees.
• Generous family leave policies.

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.