Manager, Data Governance

Tailored Brands, Inc. is a leading omni-channel specialty retailer of menswear, including suits and a broad selection of business casual offerings as well as the largest provider of tuxedo rental products in the U.S. and Canada. We operate retail stores in all 50 states and Canada. Our U.S. retail stores are operated under the brand names of Men’s Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank, Men’s Wearhouse and Tux, and K&G Fashion. Our Canadian stores are operated under the brand name of Moores in ten provinces. Our purpose is we help people love the way they look and feel for their most important moments. We accomplish this by putting customers at the center of every decision, rallying together to achieve common goals, and striving for excellence and continuous improvement.  We help fulfill this purpose by valuing differences knowing they make us better and showing up with courage to always do the right thing. If you want to make a difference, be part of a great team, and grow, you might be a perfect fit.

About the Job

Tailored Brands’ Enterprise Data Engineering BI team is central to our data-forward strategy, driving insights into every aspect of our business, supporting stakeholders across the organization, and creating a legendary customer experience. 

This leadership role will be responsible for building cross-functional relationships, educating stakeholders, and partnering with data teams to ensure governance standards and policies adhere to industry best practices and help to deliver rapid impactful benefits.

Part of this role is responsible for partnering with data analysts, data engineers, and business stakeholders to develop and manage our data governance solutions to meet the needs of the business. The right candidate has strong domain knowledge of retail, curiosity, a growth mindset, technical expertise in BI and data management tools, and a proven track record of driving data governance best practices and processes, with hands-on experience.  This role reports to the Director of BI Platform and Data Analytics.

Tailored Brands is a high-growth, collaborative environment where people who are comfortable with ambiguity and have an investigative mindset will thrive.  If you love technology, can balance being detail-oriented with the big picture, and communicate equally well with software engineers and business stakeholders, we are looking for you!

What You’ll Do | Key Responsibilities

• Own the (BI-related) Data governance processes and tools – driving the strategic roadmap for data governance and supporting an enterprise data-driven culture.
• Collaborate with data owners, stewards, information security, privacy, and technology leadership teams to establish data policies, processes, and standards including enforcement of data quality, security, and management concepts.
• Lead and facilitate the organization's data governance activities, including but not limited to creating data governance and privacy policies.
• Partner with business leadership within the master data and business domains to build and implement the policy and process for the governance model.
• Leverage a technical understanding of the enterprise data catalog to build end-user adoption, through delivering visibility, integrity, and quality of Tailored Brands data assets.
• Partner with the Tailored Brands Data Privacy team to identify, build, and deploy technical and non-technical vulnerabilities to our data.
• Work closely with the business stakeholders to aid in the development of a data stewardship program, establishing metadata registry responsibilities.
• Define frameworks, operating models, and organizational change considerations for data governance and management in support of new and existing data capabilities
• Develop and maintain a data catalog, a data lineage map, and a business glossary.
• Work collaboratively to champion data literacy, creating, implementing and managing educational programs to deliver a data-driven culture by upskilling the organization on our self-service toolsets.
• Lead the implementation of metadata standards, data governance and stewardship, master data management, and data management.
• Establishing and leading Enterprise Data and Technology governing bodies/councils and supporting business data governance leaders and forums.
• Deploying, monitoring, and enforcing policies/procedures that ensure data is used and maintained properly within Enterprise Data and Technology as well as the broader organization.
• Managing an offshore team to increase productivity, improve processes, and optimize user experience with report development.
• Hand-on experience to build reports and analytics that answer business questions, collaborating with data analysts and business stakeholders.
• Harmonize key policies and guidelines (e.g. Data Quality, Data Definition, Data Creation. Data Sharing, Data Usage policies) with the processes vital to carrying out those policies, in collaboration with multi-functional partners.
• Clearly communicate progress, dependencies, risks, and issues to leadership.
• Collaborate with colleagues in Data Engineering to develop ongoing improvements to data quality, standardized definitions, governance, tools, and approaches. 

Required Skills & Experience

• 8 years of Deep experience and proficiency in Data Management & BI tools and technologies
• Demonstrated leadership and managerial skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent Program and Project management skills.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent customer service skills
• Excellent understanding of corporate policies, practices, and organizations
• Strong negotiation skills and contract requirements
• Extensive experience managing external resources.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and produce quality results under pressure.
• Familiar with semantic layer concepts and how they are used within BI solutions.
• Strong SQL skills, familiar with complex functions, and capable of working with large datasets.
• Strong ability to build & leverage key relationships and effectively influence without authority.
• Self-motivated, energetic team player with strategies to navigate roadblocks and drive results to keep initiatives/deliverables moving.
• Ability to frame strategies, messages, and communications in a clear and consumable manner, tailored to the audience.
• Strong troubleshooting skills - identifying data issues and anomalies.
• Experience with databases such as Snowflake
• Familiarity with data privacy and security obligations
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field like Computer Science or relevant experience.
• Demonstrated commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment

Benefits

We offer a generous package of health, financial, professional, and work-life benefits.  Benefits typically include:

• Medical, prescription, dental, vision, savings accounts, wellbeing program, life/disability, commuter, accidental insurance, legal services, 401k.
• Bereavement, paid holidays, floating holidays, vacation pay, sick leave, adoption assistance, employee discounts and so much more! 

Work-Life Balance

We understand the demands of work, school, family, and personal responsibilities.  Through our work-life resources and programs we offer services for every stage of life to help you manage the day-to-day needs.  We offer programs such as:

• Meeting-Free Fridays (encouraged) | so you can catch up on work and self-development
• Summer Fridays | from Memorial Day to Labor Day so you can enjoy a head-start to the weekend 
• Holiday Early Departure | close out early the business day before a company observed holiday  

Work Environment, Physical & Mental Demands

• Ability to sit and work at a computer keyboard for extended periods of time
• Ability to stoop, kneel, bend at the waist, and reach daily
• Able to lift and move up to 25 pounds occasionally
• Must utilize visual acuity, speech and hearing, hand and eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer and office equipment
• Hours regularly 40 hours per week, as work dictates, from a hybrid office location near our Houston Corporate Office

Note: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or qualifications associated with this job.