Principal Data Governance
Tronox
About Tronox
Tronox is the world’s leading vertically integrated manufacturer of titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment and other materials that add brightness and durability to products youencounterevery day. We are 5,700 people strong,locatedacross six continents and unified by a strong set of values that guide us in our work. At our mines and manufacturing plants,labsand offices, we responsibly transform the earth’s resources into products and opportunities that enhance lives. Our vision is to shape a sustainable, thriving world through enriched and refined minerals.
About the Role
The Principal Data Governanceis responsible forestablishing, implementing, and continuously improving Tronox's enterprise-wide data governance framework and processes. This role ensures that data is managed as a strategic business asset, enabling trusted decision-making, regulatory compliance, operational excellence, digital transformation, AI adoption, and business value realization.
The role provides leadership across business and technology teams to define data ownership, accountability, quality standards, policies, controls, and governance processes. Working closely with business functions, AI, SAP teams, analytics stakeholders, cybersecurity, legal, and executive leadership, the Principal Data Governance drives a culture of data accountability across the enterprise.
The rolewillbe critical to:
Develop and execute the enterprise Data Governance Strategy and Roadmap, ensuring alignment with Tronox businessobjectives, SAP transformation programs, digital initiatives, AI strategy, regulatory requirements, and the target-state enterprise architecture.
Establish andmaintainenterprise-wide data governance frameworks, including policies, standards, processes, decision rights, operatingmodelsand governance forums that support effective management of data as a strategic business asset.
Provide ongoing governance oversight of enterprise data assets, ensuring critical businessprocesses source,manageandconsumedata fromauthorizedsystems of record while promoting consistency,integrityand trust across theorganization.
Lead the Data Governance domain within the digital demand intake and project governance processes, ensuring new initiatives align with enterprise data principles, architecture standards, ownershipmodelsand governance requirements.
Drive business ownership and accountability for data, working with business leaders to define, implement and continuously improve Data Owner, Data Steward and Data Custodian responsibilities, integrated with the enterprise Decision Authority Matrix.
Facilitate resolution of cross-functional data challenges and risks, coordinating stakeholders across business and technology functions to address data-related issues, remove barriers, and improve governance maturity and stewardship outcomes.
Define and implement enterprise data quality management practices, including data quality standards, KPIs,monitoringframeworks, remediationprocessesand executive reporting to improve the reliability and fitness-for-purpose of critical business data.
Lead metadata, datacatalogueand business glossary initiatives, ensuring users can discover, understand,trustand effectivelyutilizeenterprise data assets through robust metadata standards, lineagevisibilityand data catalogue adoption.
Establish governance controls for sensitive,confidentialand regulated information, partnering with Legal, Internal Audit, Cybersecurity, Privacy and Risk teams to support compliance obligations, auditreadinessand effective information risk management.
Provide strategic leadership for Master Data Governance (MDG)by defining the enterprise master data roadmap, governing key master data domains, and leading the transition of MDG capabilities from transformation projects into sustainable business-as-usual operations.
About You
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Management, Business InformationSystemsor a related discipline, withpostgraduate qualifications highly regarded.
Proven experience leading enterprise Data Governance programmeswithin large, complexorganizations, including the development of governance frameworks, operating models, policies,standardsand roadmaps.
Strong understanding of data ownership,stewardshipand accountability models, withdemonstratedability toestablishclear decision rights and drive business ownership across multiple functions and geographies.
Extensive experience in data quality management, including the design of quality frameworks, KPI development, root cause analysis, remediationprocessesand executive-level reporting.
Deep knowledge of metadata management, business glossaries, datacataloguesand data lineage, with experience implementing and driving adoption of modern governance platforms.
Working knowledge of enterprise data platforms and transformation initiatives, particularly SAP S/4HANA,Databricks,analytics platforms, cloud data environments, AIsolutionsand digital transformationprogrammes.
Strong stakeholder engagement,facilitationand influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with executive leadership, business functions, technology teams, cybersecurity, audit, legal and risk stakeholders to drive governance outcomes.
Relevant industry certifications are highly desirable, such as DCAM (Data Management Capability Assessment Model), CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional), DAMA, SAP MDG, TOGAF, COBIT, CISA, CGEIT, or equivalent data governance, enterprisearchitectureor information management certifications.
Why Join Tronox?
Our global reach is strengthened byour humanconnections. We challenge one another to deliver excellence and encourage our people to think big. Together, we develop innovations that make products vibrant and durable as we contribute to a cleaner world.
When you join Tronox,you’llwork with brilliant people, close to home and around the world. We offer a dynamic, supportive environment that empowers you to achieve your fullest potential — because we recognize that when you grow, we grow.
In addition to offering a competitive salary and benefits,we providea workexperience that prioritizes what truly matters:
We strive for excellence in safety and sustainability, focusing on what is critical to improve how weoperateand to enhance the communities where we work and live.
We provide challenging work and encourage innovative thinking, collaborating closely to bring our best ideas forward and add valueforour customers.
We invest in and value the success of our people, empowering them to take charge of their personal and professional development.
We are unified globally and strengthened locally,leveragingthe most culturally and geographically diverse team in the industry to connect better around the world.
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