Data Governance Specialist

The Data Acquisition Specialist will contribute thought leadership as an SME and is responsible for managing existing vendor relationships and contracts as well as delivering innovative solutions (e.g. novel vendor selection) to internal customers. Tasks: - Third-Party Data discovery and acquisition efforts including internal customer engagement, requirement gathering, data landscape review, vendor negotiation, terms & conditions review, purchasing & data management - Work closely with Purchasing and Legal to provide guidance to data-centric legal terms, statements of work, terms and conditions negotiations as well all other agreements required to engage with an external vendor. - Drive reuse of acquired 3rd party data with internal customers through internal advocacy & customer engagement - Ensures that Data Acquisition program strategies are aligned with overall organizational goals and objectives including engaging internal stakeholders to identify all uses of individual datasets and estimating value realized - Establishes and maintains consistent program management processes and standards for the enablement of Third-Party data Complexity: - Deliver innovation and technical excellence in a complex, highly interdependent environment with challenging financial, technical and project management constraints - Drive for results: persevere and persist in situations with multiple objectives and multi-variable problems. Relationship Management: - Aligns GDI&A and business stakeholders to drive results and where (issue resolution, risk mitigation, issue avoidance) - Interfaces with business customers, vendors and other GDI&A groups - Provides departmental feedback to other GDI&A groups regarding processes and standards