Data & Analytics Specialist - Data Governance

The Data & Analytics Specialist - Data Governance sits at the intersection of enterprise governance standards and business execution. This role is responsible for establishing common data standards, metric definitions, and quality controls, while actively consulting with business teams to provide templates, training, and best practices. You will empower teams across Morrisons to build and consume trustworthy, self-service data products safely and consistently. You will support the introduction of computational governance that is seen as an enabler and not a blocker. You will drive the creation of the Data Council and lead efforts to build the Data Community.

Accountabilities

Customer (Internal Business Users & Leadership)

• Act as an internal consultant, helping business functions design consumable, reusable data products aligned with enterprise standards.
• Establish and publish standardised business definitions and core company metrics to ensure a single, consistent version of truth across all reporting.
• Manage and enrich the central Data Catalog, ensuring data assets are easy to discover, understand, and access without requiring technical intervention.
• Gather business requirements for governance and data quality, translating them into practical rules and automated checks.

Colleague (Enablement & Culture)

• Lead enablement initiatives across the organisation to build data literacy, product thinking, and stewardship capabilities.
• Create and maintain reusable governance toolkits, canvas templates, best-practice guides, and example builds for development teams.
• Foster an internal community of practice and empower domain "Data Champions" to drive local data ownership and accountability.
• Partner with engineering squads during development sprints to define data standards, validate acceptance criteria, and ensure compliance by design.

Cash & Profit

• Reduce operational waste and duplication by removing point-to-point data pipelines and redundant reporting.
• Enable faster time-to-insight for operational teams, directly supporting EBITDA improvements through faster, accurate decision-making.

Operational (Governance & Controls)

• Define and maintain data quality standards, automated verification rules, and service level expectations at the point of data creation.
• Embed security, privacy-by-design, and access management policies into all reusable data assets.
• Monitor asset health, lineage, and usage performance across the data landscape, recommending the retirement or consolidation of underutilised assets.
• Support the Data Leadership Council with tracking governance maturity, policy compliance, and risk registers.

About you

As a Data & Analytics Specialist - Data Product Governance & Enablement, you will have experience of:

• Working within enterprise Data Governance frameworks, Data Lifecycle Management, and Data Quality standards.
• Defining clear business data rules, standardised metric definitions, and data asset ownership models.
• Supporting business teams through cultural change, training, and capability building (data literacy).
• Managing central Data Catalogs, metadata, data lineage, and business glossaries.
• Establishing operational standards such as data delivery agreements (SLAs) and data quality metrics.
• Working within Agile and Waterfall delivery environments alongside cross-functional teams.
• Navigating data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR), access management, and information security requirements.
• Experience within retail, FMCG, manufacturing, or supply chain environments (desirable).

Key Skills & Abilities

• Stakeholder Management & Consulting: Ability to communicate complex data governance concepts in simple, business-oriented language to influence non-technical stakeholders.
• Framework & Process Design: Capability to create clear standards, documentation, and reusable templates that accelerate delivery rather than create friction.
• Problem Solving & Analytical Thinking: Strong ability to trace data inconsistencies back to root causes and define automated business rules to prevent them.
• Data Literacy Coaching: Passion for upskilling others, facilitating workshops, and building active user communities.
• Technical Understanding: Familiarity with modern cloud data platforms, business intelligence tools, and central catalog software.

Desirable

• Practical experience with Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery), Looker, or enterprise data catalog tools (e.g., Atlan).
• Practical SQL skills for reviewing, validating, and auditing datasets.
• Knowledge of DDaT (Digital, Data and Technology) framework capability models.
• Familiarity with automated data testing concepts and business semantic modeling.

About us

In return for all your hard work, you will receive:

• 15% discount in store from the day you join us
• Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member
• Annual bonus scheme
• Career progression and development opportunities
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Market leading pension scheme and life assurance
• Healthcare benefits including Aviva Digital GP
• 'MyPerks' giving you discount with over 850 retailers
• Free parking onsite
• Enhanced Family, Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Private Healthcare

Alive with activity, our modern Head Office is home to our corporate teams that make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you'll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, Morrisons Daily and a subsidised restaurant. We are within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - and we even have free parking!

At our Head Office you will expect to find supplier showcases, charity fundraising and celebrations all year round for the events that mean the most to our colleagues.

There's more to our business as it's fast paced and ever changing, as such we've got lots of fresh opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We'd love to meet you!

At Morrisons, we're proud to be building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We want every colleague to feel respected, supported and able to be themselves at work. Different voices, experiences and ways of thinking help us grow and improve and that's good for our customers too.

We're always looking for people from all walks of life to join us and bring their talents to our team. Together, we can build a workplace where everyone has the chance to thrive, make a difference and belong.

Reward & Benefits

• Rewarding success
• We believe success should be rewarded. So, from a simple thank you to our well-deserved recognition awards, we'll show you how much we value you. We care for our colleagues. It's how we keep hold of the best talent.

Pay

Morrisons wouldn't be what it is without our amazing colleagues, which is why we offer competitive salaries to ensure we attract and retain the best.

Colleague discounts

We operate one of the most generous colleague discount schemes in food retail, and currently offer two discount cards, one for you and one for your family or friend. You will be eligible for a 15% discount on all eligible purchases and your friend or family will be eligible for up to 10% discount.

Holidays

We know how important it is to take time off to relax and unwind. So, to help you achieve a healthy work/life balance, you'll enjoy at least 28 days of holiday a year pro rata (including public holidays). Your holiday will increase depending on your length of service, too.

Pension

We have a competitive pension scheme that all our colleagues can join.

Life assurance

In case the worst should happen, we offer a Life Assurance Scheme, more commonly known as a 'Death in Service' benefit. All our colleagues are entitled to this benefit from their first day of permanent employment with us, subject to eligibility rules.

Money off

Not only will you enjoy 15% off your Morrisons shopping, you'll have access to discount and cashback offers from over 1,500 retailers including everything from fashion and holidays to utilities and electronics. All of our sites offer subsidised meals too.

Flexible benefits

We offer a range of flexible, voluntary and salary sacrifice benefits that can help you save on your tax and National Insurance. These include:

• Holiday buy scheme
• Payroll giving

Healthcare cash plan

Our exclusive health care cash plan, provided by Sovereign Health Care, offers colleagues a helping hand with everyday health care costs. It pays tax free cash back on a range of everyday health expenses including glasses, contact lenses, dental treatment, prescription charges, physiotherapy and much more. Cover is offered at a differents levels to suit your needs, and up to 4 children are covered at no extra cost! We're pleased to extend the offer to colleagues' partners. Terms and conditions apply.

Wellbeing with Vita Health

At Morrisons we care about our colleagues' wellbeing, and we work with a number of organisations to provide information, advice and support to colleagues and their families.

Our wellbeing partner Vita Health, offers free and confidential information, advice and support for all our colleagues and households 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, on all wellbeing matters including mental and physical health. They also provide a management support helpline Monday to Friday.

Aviva Digital GP and wellbeing

We provide colleagues with free access to Aviva's Digital GP and Aviva Wellbeing app services. Colleagues can book can book unlimited video consultations with an NHS-registered, private GP. To help colleagues when they need it most, It's a 24 hour service. Colleague's children are also covered up to age 16.

Addiction treatment

We're working with the team at the UK Addiction Treatment Group to support the wellbeing of our colleagues when it comes to addiction and behavioural disorders.

Salary finance

We've partnered with Salary Finance to provide all colleagues with access to simple, useful financial education, as well as access to loans at competitive and affordable rates, repaid directly from pay.

Family Friendly benefits

Maternity and Adoption Pay: Full pay for the first 26 weeks of maternity and adoption leave.

Paternity Leave: Up to 4 weeks of paternity leave, allowing flexibility within 52 weeks of the birth or placement.

Neonatal Leave: An additional week of leave for every week the baby spends in neonatal care, up to the original due date, with a maximum of 12 weeks.

Fertility Leave: Up to five days of paid leave per cycle for prospective mothers undergoing treatment, and up to two days of paid leave for partners

Plan your journey

Hilmore House (Head Office), Bradford, United Kingdom, BD3 7DL

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