Data Steward Lead

Role overview
The Senior Data Steward plays a pivotal role in ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and governance of enterprise data across the Operating Unit. This role requires a strong understanding of business processes, data standards, and reporting requirements, combined with proactive ownership of data quality issues and remediation activities. 
Acting as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, the Senior Data Steward ensures data requirements are clearly defined, understood, and consistently applied. The role supports reliable decision-making, regulatory compliance, and the successful delivery of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) initiatives, contributing directly to Haleon’s overall data strategy and operational effectiveness. 

This position involves extensive cross-functional collaboration and offers the opportunity to influence a critical, strategic capability within a complex, multinational organisation. 
 

Key responsibilities: Data Quality & Stewardship Support 
• Perform routine data quality checks on assigned data domains to validate accuracy, completeness, and consistency, for Master and Transactional data. 
• Ensure effective governance of master data throughout its lifecycle, including reviewing, validating, and correcting attributes, hierarchies, and mappings, with primary focus on Product, Customer, and Pricing data.  
• Continuously monitor data quality, proactively identifying issues, performing root-cause analysis, and defining remediation actions.  
• Manage data quality escalations, working closely with markets and operating units to resolve data and process issues 
 
Business & Stakeholder Engagement 
• Collaborate with Data Owners, Business Process Owners / Value Stream Leads, and technical Product Owners to define and enforce data definitions, business rules, standards, policies, and procedures. 
• Act as a trusted data partner to commercial and operational stakeholders, translating business needs into clear data requirements. 
• Lead and facilitate data forums and working groups to discuss challenges, share insights, and drive alignment and engagement. 
• Provide subject-matter expertise on assigned data domains and market archetypes, particularly indirect and distributor-driven markets. 

Data Standards, Playbooks & Enablement 
• Develop and maintain data standards, guidelines, and playbooks to enable consistent data maintenance and adoption of new capabilities. 
• Support change initiatives by ensuring data readiness and clear guidance during system enhancements or process transformations. 
• Promote best practices in data stewardship and contribute to continuous improvement of EDM processes.

Systems, Tools & Data Flows 
• Maintain a strong understanding of end-to-end data flows, including inputs and outputs for capabilities such as Customer Planning (e.g. Visualfabriq), Trade Promotions, and Net Revenue Management. 
• Validate and reconcile data across multiple sources, including SAP, Trade Promotion Management systems, POS and sell‑out portals, and third‑party providers (e.g. NielsenIQ/IRI). 
• Utilise enterprise data management tools such as Informatica IDMC to support governance and data quality activities. 

Your profile
Required: 

• ​Proven experience in data stewardship, data governance, or a closely related role.  
• Demonstrated experience delivering or supporting complex, cross-functional data initiatives.  
• Understanding of the CPG/FMCG industry, including commercial processes, customers, and competitive dynamics.  
• Knowledge of relevant data governance standards, policies, and regulatory requirements, and their practical application.  
• Experience working with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams. 
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead root-cause analysis and define corrective actions. 
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data topics into actionable insights. 
• Commercial acumen and an appetite to understand and apply business context to data decisions. 
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and manage multiple priorities across regions and functions. 
• Confidence influencing without authority and driving adoption of standards in a federated organisation.
 
Technical skills 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel for advanced data analysis. 
• Working knowledge of Infomratica IDMC, Data Quality & Governance 
• Working knowledge of SAP ECC, master data management concepts, and enterprise data landscapes. 
• Experience with Trade Promotion Management, POS/sell-out data, and market data providers (e.g. NielsenIQ/IRI). 
• Knowledge of SQL and Power BI is advantageous. 
 
Why Haleon?   
None of us should ever feel like we’re standing still. At Haleon, we want you to feel supported, valued, and always progressing. Improving everyday health takes dedication, energy, and effort — so we reward your contribution with a benefits package that includes:   
• Contract of employment    
• Annual bonus that reflects performance    
• Hybrid@Haleon our philosophy to hybrid work  (2 days of onsite work per week)
• Private medical package (Medicover) with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible    
• Multisport card or points on the Multicafeteria Benefits account       
• Health and wellbeing programmes that take care of you physically and mentally    
• Pension plan membership and savings programme (PPE)    
• Personalized learning paths and access to diverse development tools to support your professional growth.    
• Generali Life insurance    
• Supportive community and integration events   
• Family benefits (extra parental leave, caregiver’s policy)    
• Free car and bike parking   
• Remuneration: 18 540 to 25 490  PLN gross/month, depending on the level of experience and competence.