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# Data Senior Manager - Energy - Brussels

- **Company:** Michael Page
- **Location:** Brussel, Belgium
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, Data Transformation, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Data Strategy
- **Published:** July 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.michaelpage.be/job-apply/data-senior-manager-energy-brussels/ref/jn-072026-7061375

## About the Role

* 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.

## 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.


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