Manager, Master Data Management And Governance

Overview
Manager, Master Data Management and Governance (Maternity Cover 12 months) — Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board
Role: Manage and utilise Bord Bia's data to improve business operating performance, client proposition and experience aligned to Bord Bia strategy.
Develop policy for master data, information governance and controls, and champion data analytics usage within Bord Bia.
About the Company
Bord Bia has a vision that customers around the globe recognise that Irish food and drink is world-class; it is high quality, distinctive, and made by a diverse range of creative producers from a unique and fortuitous island location.
Our purpose is to bring Ireland's outstanding food, drink and horticulture to the world, thus enabling growth and sustainability of producers.
Responsibilities
Input into and implement the data management and usage strategy in Bord Bia, aligned to the Bord Bia strategy and create a culture that treats data as a valuable crossfunctional asset.
Manage and support the data migration and integration for business-critical systems, including ETL and data validation.
Execution of extract, transform and load activities, assessing data quality and cleaning where necessary.
Understand current data structures across the organization, advise cross functional departments on how to maximise and/or best use and manage data to facilitate better business performance in alignment with strategy.
Mine and analyse data, leveraging Bord Bia's toolsets (Power BI, Co-pilot, other BI and AI tools) to extract insights to inform business decisions, leading to the creation of portals, dashboards and reports.
Develop and implement policies, procedures and controls for data protection through a defined lifecycle from acquisition to end-of-life disposal where appropriate.
Oversee the management of Bord Bia's data assets, including identification, collation, categorisation, data ownership, inventory, data access mapping and custodianship.
Promote a data-driven and insight-led culture, leveraging data to develop insights that drive business opportunities and decision making.
Manage assigned budgets in accordance with One Bord Bia procedures and adhere to the One Bord Bia Operating Model.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in IT/Computer Science, Information Science, business or engineering.
5+ years' experience with Enterprise Architecture frameworks and data management solutions.
Leadership experience in cross-functional teams and enterprise-wide programs, influencing across the organisation.
Experience in data migration, ETL and using AWS Pipelines (writing stored procedures), Python, JSON and SQL.
Experience in migrating images between systems with accurate mapping and validation in new environments.
Architecture frameworks and data management solutions; strategic technology planning and execution; policy development and maintenance.
Familiarity with business information generation and analysis methods.
Required Skills
Digital-first mindset, comfortable with an agile culture focused on continuous improvement.
Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to manage people, process and technology change in a dynamic environment.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to explain digital concepts to business leaders and business concepts to technologists, selling ideas and processes internally at all levels.
Preferred Skills
Certification in a recognised Project Management Discipline is an advantage.
Significant experience using various project and program management methodologies.
Pay range and compensation package
The salary scale for this role is €82,004 - €97,193.
New entrants to the Public Sector commence on the first point of the Scale.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Bord Bía is an Equal Opportunities Employer: We want to see a society where everyone is equal.
We know our foundation must be an equitable workplace that recognises the dignity and worth of everyone and gives all our employees the freedom and opportunity to fulfil their potential.
Our diverse workforce reflects the diversity of our clients, customers and markets and promotes innovation.
Bord Bia is committed to ensuring that all recruitment candidates have complete and equitable access.
If you require any support or accommodation as part of the recruitment process, please contact us directly at
Closing Date/Time
Closing Date: Monday, 29 September 2025 @ 9am (GMT/UTC+1).
Additional notes
Learn more about working at Bord Bia.
This description reflects the information provided and may be subject to change.
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