Job Description

The Head of Enterprise Data Assets is responsible and accountable for leading a team of individuals tasked with identifying, planning, defining, configuring, maintaining and monitoring enterprise data sets to serve the analytical community.  This role will create and nurture critical partnerships with IT and CDAO business facing teams to support enterprise data asset creation for top department initiatives including One View Of the Customer (OVOC), Enterprise Data Layer (EDL) – vehicle telemetry, and the enterprise shift to Electric Vehicles (EV). The successful candidate will possess a work style that promotes progress through collaborative teamwork and strong leadership to deliver “big wins” for the CDAO and analytics community as a whole.  

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Manage a team of 15+ experienced & inexperienced business professionals across multiple geographic locations, providing career guidance, mentoring, and support
Advises senior leadership on process/products that have high return on investments in the future
Enable data-driven business benefits through enterprise data asset maintenance and optimization
Accountable for creating and implementing EDA strategy including data certification in support of CDAO business value delivery
Directly responsible for delivering IT project (PPM) results for CDAO projects requiring productionized data assets
Design and develop strategies, processes, policies or original solutions to highly complex issues; often involving multiple functions
Experience in talent management and leadership development
High collaboration with key business and IT stakeholders/application teams to understand, document and prioritize data needs
Support and communicate the enterprise data strategy and vision
Support and participate in managing key technology vendor relationships, ensuring they have context to current product gaps and priorities from a business perspective
Provide support for users of the data and manage advancement of it,  advancing capabilities and maturing internal processes
Monitor and adopt industry-related trends for best in class data management

QUALIFICATIONS:

10+ years of experience leading people, motivating teams and building an atmosphere of innovation
10+ years of experience creating and managing cross-functional relationships with related business teams, IT and other groups
5+ years of IT or data management experience designing, building, deploying and maintaining technology solutions
Familiairty with Data Management, Data Governance and Data Quality practices
Working knowledge of data science and machine learning tools like: Alteryx, Knime, Informatica, etc.. and data quality / profiling tools like: IBM Information Analyzer, Informatica, Ataccama
API’s usage to retrieve and update metadata in multiple formats: JSON, XML, CSV, RDF, etc…
Strong comprehension of metadata and processes to ingest and maintain it
Superior verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
Persuasive, encouraging, motivating and diplomatic, with conflict resolution skills
Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, customers and other departments
Adept at troubleshooting and managing around current capability gaps
Able to prioritize and execute tasks and conform to changing priorities

Additional Description

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us 

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:
• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;
• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;
• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values; 
• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;
• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.   We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.