Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Data Transformation

Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Data Transformation

• Lead the development, implementation, and scaling of core data management capabilities, including data quality, metadata, master and reference data, content and document management, and data storage and operations.
• Coordinate delivery of data management activities across business, technology, legal, compliance, and regional teams to ensure consistent standards, controls, and ways of working.
• Embed data management into major technology and business programmes such as ERP, analytics, and digital services, ensuring data requirements, risks, and dependencies are fully addressed.
• Establish and maintain data governance processes, including forums, decision-making structures, and minimum control standards to ensure compliance and accountability.
• Build and lead multidisciplinary teams responsible for delivering data management improvements, including programme management, analysis, and change enablement.
• Develop and implement the long-term operating model for enterprise data management, defining data roles, responsibilities, workflows, and capability uplift across the organisation.
• Oversee adoption of data management tools and platforms, enabling greater operational efficiency, improved data quality, and consistent data practices across regions and functions.
• Partner with architecture and technology leaders to define future-state operational and analytical data models, ensuring alignment with broader transformation strategies and strategic priorities.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Lead the development, implementation, and scaling of core data management capabilities, including data quality, metadata, master and reference data, content and document management, and data storage and operations.
• Coordinate delivery of data management activities across business, technology, legal, compliance, and regional teams to ensure consistent standards, controls, and ways of working.
• Embed data management into major technology and business programmes such as ERP, analytics, and digital services, ensuring data requirements, risks, and dependencies are fully addressed.
• Establish and maintain data governance processes, including forums, decision-making structures, and minimum control standards to ensure compliance and accountability.
• Build and lead multidisciplinary teams responsible for delivering data management improvements, including programme management, analysis, and change enablement.
• Develop and implement the long-term operating model for enterprise data management, defining data roles, responsibilities, workflows, and capability uplift across the organisation.
• Oversee adoption of data management tools and platforms, enabling greater operational efficiency, improved data quality, and consistent data practices across regions and functions.
• Partner with architecture and technology leaders to define future-state operational and analytical data models, ensuring alignment with broader transformation strategies and strategic priorities.

As Head of Enterprise Data Transformation, you’ll lead the enterprise-wide transformation needed to strengthen Brambles’ data management capability and establish trusted data as a genuine strategic business asset.

You’ll be here to drive the transformation, not simply inherit BAU. You’ll mobilise the programme, create momentum and bring the delivery discipline, adoption and change needed to build a sustainable capability, before transitioning long-term ownership into the appropriate business, governance and capability teams.

You’ll bring together Technology Services, Digital, Enterprise Data Management, Data Governance, ERP/Simplify, Global Process Owners, Global Process Leads and business leaders around one coordinated enterprise data transformation roadmap, connecting the programme to business priorities, risk reduction and future ERP readiness.

You’ll act as the central point of coordination and escalation for the Data Management Programme, creating transparency around progress and ensuring success is measured by more than milestones. We’ll look to you to demonstrate tangible improvements in data maturity, control effectiveness, adoption and business value.

Crucially, you’ll help make the transformation stick. You’ll lead the change, communication and data literacy agenda, strengthen data ownership and stewardship, and work with HR, the Transformation Office and business leaders to embed the operating model and ways of working needed for sustainable BAU ownership.

Major/Key Accountabilities

Strategy & Transformation

• Develop, maintain and govern the enterprise data transformation roadmap, aligned to Brambles’ strategic priorities, risk appetite and ERP/Simplify foundation requirements.
• Translate business, risk, ERP and data capability priorities into a sequenced portfolio of transformation initiatives with clear outcomes, owners and dependencies.
• Ensure data transformation investments and resource priorities are aligned to measurable business value, maturity uplift and control effectiveness.

Programme Leadership

• Lead execution of the enterprise Data Management Programme, coordinating delivery across TS, Digital, Enterprise Data Management, Data Governance, ERP/Simplify, GPO/GPL and business teams.
• Chair or lead programme governance and steering forums, ensuring transparent visibility of progress, risks, issues, dependencies and decisions.
• Provide escalation management where capability ownership, delivery dependencies, data standards, decision rights or business adoption are unclear or blocked.

ERP/Simplify Data Readiness

• Ensure priority ERP/Simplify data dependencies are visible, including data ownership, master data standards, data quality remediation needs, migration readiness assumptions and data operating model requirements.
• Partner with Global Process Owners, Global Process Leads and the ERP/Simplify programme to embed data ownership and governance into process harmonisation and future ERP decision-making.

Operating Model, Controls & Change

• Define programme requirements for the future data operating model, including decision rights, handover points, stewardship engagement and BAU ownership expectations.
• Lead organisational change, communication and adoption activities required to embed new data management practices, data literacy and data-driven ways of working.
• Work with accountable owners to ensure data quality, metadata, master data, governance and control requirements are transitioned into sustainable BAU practices.

Benefits Realisation & Reporting

• Define and track transformation outcomes, maturity improvements, risk reduction, adoption indicators and business value measures.
• Provide clear, evidence-based reporting to executive stakeholders, leadership forums and risk communities.

Experience

• Technical leader with experience with enterprise data management, master data, data quality, metadata, data ownership or data stewardship improvement programmes.
• Significant experience leading enterprise-wide transformation or data management programmes in large, global and matrixed organisations.
• Experience defining and delivering operating model change, governance structures, decision rights and capability transition to BAU ownership.
• Strong experience managing senior executive stakeholders and influencing outcomes through resources and teams that do not directly report into the role.
• Experience supporting ERP or major enterprise platform transformation, including data readiness, process harmonisation and business adoption dependencies.
• Experience defining benefits, maturity measures, KRIs, control outcomes and executive reporting for transformation programmes.
• Experience working with external partners, advisors or vendors to deliver specialist transformation, data or assurance outcomes.

Desirable Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent experience.
• Project, programme or change management certification.
• Data management, governance or architecture certification (DAMA, DCAM, CDMP or similar).

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Employer: CHEP

Location: London, UK

Posted Date: 15/10/2026

Expiry Date: 15/02/2027

Type: Full-Time

Categories: Data / Knowledge Manager / Analysis / Governance, System Administrator / Integrator, Project Manager

Ref: DN-JB-3105

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