Senior Manager, Data Management

Primary Purpose Of This Position

The Senior Manager, Data Management leads the enterprise Data Management function encompassing Master Data Management (MDM), Data Quality, and Data Governance operations. This role is the enterprise accountability layer for data trust — owning the stewardship model, governance controls, data quality standards, and data security policy design that ensure enterprise data is accurate, defined, classified, and reliably governed.

Essential Responsible Areas

• Data Governance COE:
  • Define and operate the enterprise data stewardship and ownership model — ensuring every critical data domain has a named business owner and active steward
  • Maintain the business glossary, enterprise data definitions, and ownership registry as living, governed artifacts — not static documentation
  • Run governance forums, decision rights frameworks, and escalation paths — resolving data definition disputes, ownership conflicts, and cross-domain data issues
  • Own data classification taxonomy and access policy design — defining RBAC policy tiers aligned to data sensitivity and regulatory requirements (policy design only; technical implementation owned by Data Platforms)
• Master Data Operations:
  • Oversee master and reference data workflows across SAP S/4HANA and JD Edwards — governing the creation, change, and maintenance processes for Customer, Product, Supplier, Site, and Cost Center master data
  • Accountable for accuracy and timeliness of master data — owning MDM SLAs as measurable commitments, not targets
  • Drive reduction of downstream rework caused by MDM defects — quantifying the operational and financial impact of master data failures and reporting improvement to the CDO and business leaders
  • Manage MDM release cycles, change control, and SLAs — coordinating MDM updates across SAP and JDE in alignment with ERP release schedules and Data Architecture standards
• Data Quality:
  • Define and own enterprise data quality rules and acceptance criteria — establishing the quality standards that analytics products and downstream systems must meet before data is certified for use
  • Produce enterprise DQ scorecards and trend reporting — publishing domain-level quality scores, issue aging, and improvement trajectories to the CDO and business data owners on a recurring cadence
  • Operate systemic escalation for recurring quality issues — routing persistent DQ failures to data owners, engineering teams, or MDM operations with clear accountability and resolution timelines
  • Accountable for measurable improvement in critical data domains — quality improvement targets are defined at the start of each year and tracked as a performance commitment

Required Knowledge Areas

• Policy-Layer Leadership — Operates effectively at the governance and standards layer without owning technical enforcement; understands where their authority ends and platform ownership begins
• Accountability Architecture — Skilled at building accountability frameworks and stewardship models that drive behavior through ownership and incentive, not bureaucracy
• Governance Facilitation — Effective at running governance forums, decision rights processes, and escalation paths that resolve disputes and produce durable decisions
• Executive Communication — Translates data governance concepts, quality metrics, and policy decisions into business value language for CIO, CFO, and functional leader audiences
• Structural Ambiguity Tolerance — Comfortable establishing governance structure in maturing organizations; can operate without perfect tooling or complete data inventories while building toward the target state

Compensation & Benefits

Expected Hiring Salary Range: $115,000 - $164,300 (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)

This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan. Please visit our "Total Rewards" page to learn more about Ball’s comprehensive benefits structure.

The preferred location for this role is our Westminster, CO campus; but we will consider a remote candidate, dependent on experience, qualifications and willingness to engage in regular travel to the Colorado campus.

Hybrid On-Site Work Environment: If based in Colorado, this position requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site for three (3) or more days per work week (with core collaboration days of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).

Travel and local commute between Ball locations and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.