Global Data Governance Manager

BRAND: Spark Foundry

Job Function: Data Sciences

Location: London, United Kingdom

Experience Level: Intermediate

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Company description

Spark Foundry, the Acceleration Agency, helps brands identify, learn and respond to opportunities faster than the competition. Every client has an area of their business they need to accelerate, from short-term goals to long-term transformation. We recently proved our approach during the most difficult year on record and now provide a launchpad for future growth.

Overview

We are hiring a Data Governance Manager to play a pivotal role in how global marketing campaigns are planned, launched and reported. This role sits at the heart of campaign operations, ensuring accuracy, consistency and confidence in how data flows across markets and platforms. You’ll partner with teams around the world to bring clarity, structure and trust to complex marketing activity.

Responsibilities

• Own campaign governance and quality assurance across planning, activation and reporting workflows.
• Review and validate media plans, campaign structures and taxonomy standards before launch.
• Ensure consistent setup, spend alignment and reporting accuracy across markets and platforms.
• Partner with planning, buying, analytics and operations teams to resolve governance issues.
• Monitor live campaigns to identify risks, discrepancies and opportunities for improvement.
• Support governance workflows, dashboards and reporting within Datorama.
• Continuously improve governance processes to strengthen reliability and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience in campaign operations, data governance, media governance or quality assurance.
• Strong understanding of campaign planning, activation and reporting workflows.
• Confidence performing QA checks, taxonomy validation and issue resolution across systems.
• Clear, collaborative communication with the ability to work across teams and regions.
• Comfort working with data across multiple platforms and reporting environments.
• Strong Excel skills; familiarity with tools such as Datorama or SQL is a plus.
• A detail-focused, solutions-oriented mindset with a passion for improving processes.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits including Pension, Life Assurance and Private Medical cover. Additional initiatives include Reflection Days, Shared Parental Leave and other enhanced policies. Full details are shared upon joining.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Spark Foundry is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs-such as related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition-please let us know. We will work with you to ensure the process works for you, and sharing this information will never impact your application.

• Experience in campaign operations, data governance, media governance or quality assurance.
• Strong understanding of campaign planning, activation and reporting workflows.
• Confidence performing QA checks, taxonomy validation and issue resolution across systems.
• Clear, collaborative communication with the ability to work across teams and regions.
• Comfort working with data across multiple platforms and reporting environments.
• Strong Excel skills; familiarity with tools such as Datorama or SQL is a plus.
• A detail-focused, solutions-oriented mindset with a passion for improving processes.

We offer a wide range of benefits including Pension, Life Assurance and Private Medical cover. Additional initiatives include Reflection Days, Shared Parental Leave and other enhanced policies. Full details are shared upon joining.

Spark Foundry, the Acceleration Agency, helps brands identify, learn and respond to opportunities faster than the competition. Every client has an area of their business they need to accelerate, from short-term goals to long-term transformation. We recently proved our approach during the most difficult year on record and now provide a launchpad for future growth.