Data & Analytics Governance Director

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value. Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

About the Function: Our Digital and Technology (D&T) team are innovators, delivering ground‑breaking solutions that will help shape the future of our iconic brands. Technology touches every part of our business, from the sourcing of sustainable ingredients to marketing and development of our online platforms. We utilise data insights to build competitive advantage, supporting our people to deliver value faster. Our D&T team includes some of the most talented digital professionals in the industry. Every day, we come together to push boundaries and innovate, shaping the digital solutions of tomorrow.

About the role: The Data & Analytics Governance Director is a DA&I leader reporting to the CDAO and is responsible for defining & enforcing Diageo’s enterprise‑wide data & analytics governance strategy. This role drives trust, quality, and compliance across the data ecosystem, partnering closely with Data Products, Platforms, Capability, and Initiatives to embed governance by design. The role leads the central Data Governance Office which designs enterprise-wide policies, leads the implementation & ensures compliance. As part of our data strategy maturity assessment, our ability to implement and enforce compliance to policies and standards was identified as a key gap. Risk related to AI and the regulatory landscape related to this continues to increase at significant pace needing to upweight the leadership in this area (to work together with Legal, Data Privacy and Information Security). The purpose of this role is to establish and enforce Diageo’s enterprise-wide data governance frameworks, policies, and operating model. The position ensures trusted, compliant, and high-quality data across all domains by embedding governance practices into the organisation. It also provides leadership for metadata, cataloguing, lineage, and stewardship, and drives accountability for data ownership across Diageo.

Key Responsibilities

• Owns and safeguards the enterprise-wide data governance strategy, standards, and frameworks, ensuring trust, consistency, and compliance across all of Diageo.
• Partners closely with senior business functional, and technology leaders to embed governance principles into enterprise decision-making, ensuring data is treated and managed as a strategic asset, hence requiring influence.
• Ensures influential leadership and accountability for end-to-end data governance frameworks, ensuring enterprise-wide alignment and adoption.
• Champions a culture of accountability and stewardship for data as a strategic asset, embedding governance principles into every decision, process, and platform.
• Ensures that Data policies and standards are aligned with broader AI governance, policies and standards as these emerge.
• Partners with Legal and Information Security on the development of AI policies and standards.
• Owns Data Governance and Management talent strategy and development plans e.g. Data Governance mandatory training across Diageo including key skills and training development plans for all employees across Diageo, key governance roles and technical leaders.

Leadership

• Establishes, empowers, and coaches data governance roles across the organization (Data Domain Owners (DDOs), Data Stewards (DS)), building a high-impact network of data leaders.
• Partners with Platform, Product, and Capability leaders to embed governance‑by‑design into every layer of Diageo’s data ecosystem.
• Leads enterprise adoption of metadata standards, data cataloguing, lineage, and stewardship practices, ensuring data is trusted, discoverable, and reusable.
• Designs and drives governance KPIs and dashboards that monitor adoption, compliance, and quality, creating transparency and accountability at scale.
• Represents and advocates for Data Governance in DA&I and AI governing bodies, ensuring the function shapes enterprise priorities and safeguards value delivery.

Qualifications and Experience Required

• 10+ years in data governance, information management, or data strategy roles.
• Proven track record delivering enterprise-scale governance transformations with measurable impact.
• Expertise in enterprise data governance frameworks, MDM best practices, metadata management, data cataloguing, and regulatory compliance (GDPR, CCPA).
• Strong leadership: ability to influence senior stakeholders, drive cross‑functional collaboration, change management at scale.
• Experience in consumer goods or highly regulated industries advantageous.
• Familiarity with centralised governance models preferred.

Diversity statement

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.