Data Quality Manager

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Job Code :401
Division :Marketing
Location :US - RI - Pawtucket, Pawtucket RI US 02860 162 Middle Street

Job Type :Full Time
Career Level :Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff)

Bachelor's Degree

Category :Marketing

Job Description

Don't wait to jumpstart your career! Seize this opportunity to work for the company that Travel & Leisure has recently awarded one of the best Tour Operators on the planet. Collette Vacations sells over 150 guided tours to all 7 continents and has offices around the globe. Our family owned company has a proven track record of over 94 years of sales success and are continuing to grow. As a matter of fact 2010 was our best year ever!
The Data Quality Manager will play a key role in the development and implementation of a long-term data quality strategy. In the short term, the role will focus on maintaining a newly implemented analytic data structure and analyzing that core structure to identify gaps in data content or quality. The ideal candidate is a ‘good data evangelist' with expertise in data hygiene and quality for data base marketing purposes.

The Data Quality Manager Will Also

• Implement reporting processes to track data quality improvements
• Identify high value data sources marketing needs to acquire to further strategic goals
• Work with IT to prioritize, facilitate and complete high value marketing data quality projects.

• Provide guidance, expertise and leadership on best practice marketing data base efforts.
• Proactively identifies changes to business and data processes that will increase data quality, process efficiency or both.
• Work closely with data quality technical staff, applications development, and the data owners/subject matter experts from the businesses.
• Utilize data profiling and data quality tools, as well as with various data sources to uncover and determine root causes of data quality issues.
• Articulate the need for and benefits of data quality to IT, Sales, Marketing, and Senior Management
• Collaborate directly with the business data owners to establish the quality business rules that will provide the foundation of the organization's data quality improvement plan.
• Establish a data quality methodology documenting a repeatable set of processes for determining, investigating and resolving data quality issues, establishing an on-going process for maintaining quality data, and defining data quality audit procedures.
• Identify best practice data standardization, hygiene and validation tools. Work with internal IT and vendor partners to implement as part of the data base marketing process

• 5 to 7 years' experience in a data management role, preferably in data base marketing application
• Experience with Unica and SAS a plus
• Excellent communication skills; ability to articulate data issue to key stakeholders in IT, Marketing, Finance and Executive Management
• Demonstrated ability to organize, coordinate, and execute on details.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and participate in multiple, concurrent projects.
• Proactive self-starter with the initiative to identify and act upon opportunities without direction.
• 5 to 7 years' experience with SQL based data structures
• Strong knowledge of SQL Database structure and SQL needed. Ability to identify sets and subsets of information across multiple joins or unions of tables.
• Experience in managing projects through to completion.