Data Senior Manager - Energy - Brussels

Michael Page
Brussel, Belgium
27 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
Dutch, English, French

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance Data Transformation Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Data Strategy

Job description

As Data Manager, you will define and drive the enterprise-wide data strategy, ensuring strong governance, data quality, security, and regulatory compliance. You will play a key role in unlocking business value through data, analytics, and AI across operations, finance, ESG, and corporate functions., * Define and execute the company’s enterprise-wide data strategy.

  • Establish data governance frameworks, ownership models, and quality standards.
  • Develop and oversee the roadmap, programs, and projects required to implement the data strategy.
  • Drive data-enabled transformation across business functions.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and critical infrastructure requirements.
  • Build the foundations required for advanced analytics and AI adoption.
  • Lead and develop a team of 10-15 experts
  • Engage and influence senior stakeholders, including executive leadership and board-level decision-makers.
  • Promote a data-driven culture across the organization.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree required.
  • Minimum 10 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years in senior leadership positions within Data, IT, Digital, or Transformation environments.
  • Proven experience in deploying enterprise-wide data governance frameworks and major data transformation initiatives.
  • Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Demonstrated ability to define roadmaps and drive large-scale organizational change.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate complex topics clearly to executive audiences.
  • Experience within industry, infrastructure, utilities, energy, manufacturing, or other regulated sectors is highly valued.
  • Exposure to OT/IT environments, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, SCADA, telemetry, AI, or NIS2-related topics is an asset.
  • Strong people management and transversal leadership skills.
  • Humble, resilient, influential, and able to navigate complex environments with calm and credibility.
  • Fluent in English and either French or Dutch.

Benefits & conditions

A unique opportunity to shape and lead the data agenda of a large organization, driving innovation, business performance, and AI readiness in a rapidly evolving environment.

About the company

Join a leading international organization undergoing a major digital and data transformation while contributing to critical infrastructure and sustainability challenges., PageGroup is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity, both as an employer as well as a recruitment service provider. Each recruitment decision we make for people we hire and people we place into new roles is based solely on the candidates’ knowledge, experience and skills.

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