Data Steward (H/F)

At Lyreco, we believe in working together for tomorrow, which means constantly looking to innovate and evolve so that our employees, customers and business continue to grow and develop. We believe in a culture that values our employees and inspires them to be the best they can be and our core values of passion, excellence, respect and agility play a key part in this. Through a perfect blend of people, technology and our corporate social responsibility strategy, our future looks bright.

Job Description

At Lyreco, we believe in working together for tomorrow. Which means constantly looking to innovate and evolve so that our employees, customers and business continue to grow and develop in the ever-changing world that we live in. Our employees are an essential ingredient to the success of the company, and we are committed to providing a positive, productive and supportive work environment where all employees are valued and inspired to be the best they can be.

In order to provide our customers with the best solutions and experience, Lyreco has to become a more Customer centric & Data driven company. Therefore, Lyreco is looking for a Data Steward, working in the Customer Data & Governance department and acting, through data governance, as:

• Referent in terms of Data governance policy
• Up-keeper of the data quality managing continuous improvement plan with various stakeholders

To contribute towards the overall mission, your key responsibilities include:

Implementation of Data governance policy

• Participating in the definition of the general data governance policy (standards and process for updating business data models, security) and ensuring that data perimeters are compliant with this policy
• Contributing to and participating in data governance committees
• Liaising and sharing with decisions makers and data owners at Group and Subsidiaries level on data governance rules and best practices

Coordination and administration of the company data by capturing and documenting

• Tools, documentation such as dictionaries to control data and meta data (Customer, Prospect, Contact, Product, etc.)

• Mapping (data lineage) of the processes, flows and life cycles
• Ensure that all deliverables are visible, transparent to the core team and all major contributors and stakeholders to enable effective day-to-day data control

Data quality continuous improvement plan, in collaboration with data owners and users

• Identifying data users' expectations and supporting data owners to arbitrate and prioritize the needs in line with the company strategy
• Defining improvement plans, KPIs and targets
• Piloting effectively improvement plans by setting up visible and transparent follow up reports
• Share best practices across data owners, users communities

To deliver on this mission, of course you will need a collaborative and creative mind-set, nevertheless we are also looking for a truly unique character with a pioneering, entrepreneurial and results orientated approach.

Other essential requirements:

• Degree in Science (Bac+5)
• Previous experience in Data governance, analysis & modelisation ideally in a distribution and B2B environment
• Customer Centric & Data driven culture: familiar with an environment using customers journeys and mixing data owners, analyst, scientist, engineers, devops, web analyst …
• Good understanding of SAP, master data, big data and data warehourses principles
• Absolutely familiar with data lineage, data modeling, Mapping, dictionaries
• Knowledge of tooling allowing data lineage, anlaysis and visualization (such as DQ Analyzer, PowerBI etc) and basics in coding (VBA, sql, python)
• Organization is key: you will be dealing with multiple priorities, so having a structured yet agile approach – with good knowledge of the scrum agile methodology - will be essential
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to communicate and collaborate with multiple stakeholders.
• Fluent written and spoken English

If you would like to work in an ever evolving and collaborative environment that puts our people at the forefront with the mission of delivering to our customers, then we would love to hear from you.