Job Description

Position Title: Data Quality Specialist Position Type: Regular - Full-Time Position Location: Toronto HQ Requisition ID: 17572
We know the importance that food plays in people's lives – the power it has to bring people, families and communities together. Our purpose is to bring enjoyment to people’s lives through great tasting food, in a way which reflects our values. McCain has recently committed to implementing regenerative agriculture practices across 100 percent of our potato acreage by 2030. Ask us more about our commitment to sustainability.
OVERVIEW
McCain is embarking on a digital transformation. As part of this transformation, we are making significant investments into our data structures and policies to increase the quality of our data, the confidence of our business teams to use this data to make decisions and drive value through the use of data.
We have a new and ambitious Global Data & Analytics group, which serves as a resource to the business teams in our regions and global functions. We are currently recruiting an experienced data governance professional to join our world-class data governance team.
JOB PURPOSE The Global Data Governance Data Quality Specialist will support the development and roll out of global processes and leverage global tools to govern data in a way that is consistent and standardized across all regions. As a member of the Global Data Governance team, the individual will support deployment of data governance roadmap, including enforcement of policies, guidelines, standard procedures, and ensuring proper communications. The position will assist in data management, governance, and data quality of master data requirements for various functions to ensure master data integrity across the organization. This role will be responsible for driving data quality; creating reports/metrics to ascertain data quality and integrity; research, analysis and root cause identification of data errors and providing key design input for application functionality. This role will report into the Data Quality Manager within the Global Data Governance function.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Data Governance Practice The successful candidate’s responsibilities will span the people, process, and technology pillars of Data Governance:

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  Support the implementation of data management, data governance, and data quality tools/platforms
• Support the build of enterprise data catalog, data lineage and metadata management tools within the organization’s big data environment
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand data requirements and create standard definitions for key metrics used throughout the organization
• Create documentation pertaining to business processes and data quality requirements
• Execute processes aligned with the Critical Data Register, and Highly Critical Data mapping
• Lead enterprise efforts in mapping highly critical data through tool sets and processes

Data Quality & Analytics

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  Embed and execute data quality frameworks, standards, policies and processes leveraged by business units locally and regionally
• Support the integration and enterprise-wide use of Data Governance Tools and Technologies to improve data quality across the enterprise
• Facilitate workshops with business partners and Data Stewards/Data Specialist to determine data quality requirements and address pain points
• Investigate and triage data quality issues for the business by performing data discovery, data health checks, root cause analysis and data rules creation
• Provide proactive data quality recommendations to prevent issues from occurring
• Creation of Power BI dashboards to monitor data quality issues and improvements over time
• Documentation and translation of business rules to develop technical code using SQL or Python to produce insights
• Creation of self-serving data quality tools
• Develop data quality rules and/or processes based on the business requirements for each of our data quality dimensions
• Work with the Business to build data quality rules and metrics for specific critical data
• Work with business to mitigate downstream impacts of change to multiple systems

KEY QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCES:

• Education and Experience
  
  • Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.
  • Minimum of 2+years’ experience with data management/governance, including but not limited to data governance, master data management, data protection, and/or data quality
  • Proficient at writing queries and validating results using SQL and Python
  • Proficient with data visualization tools such as PowerBI and Tableau
  • Preferred: Experience with cloud-based platforms such as Google Cloud, Azure, Amazon Web Services
  • Preferred: experience working in SAP for master data management
  • Preferred: experience in CPG or food and beverage
• Communication and influencing skills
  
  • project leadership skills with the ability to drive issues to closure
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and foster collaborative relationships with ability to engage resources outside of direct-control to gain consensus, meet deadlines and achieve goals and objectives.
  • Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Positive attitude and a team player
• Experience and flexible self-started
  
  • Experience working on an agile team in a virtual, distributed environment
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and participate as an independent contributor with little supervision or as an active team member depending on the situation and needs
• Critical thinking
  
  • Analytical and interpretation skills, ability to review data and gain insight
  • Decision-making skills with the ability to investigate and weigh alternatives and select the course of action that provides the greatest benefit to the organization
  • Creative thinking skills with the ability to ask the needed bigger-picture questions that lead to process improvements
  • Experience establishing metrics/key performance indicators to measure business impact and process compliance

The health and safety of McCain employees and their families has been our number one priority since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Supported by science, and in line with our culture and values, we believe that being vaccinated is the most effective way to protect each other, our families, our customers, and our communities. It is therefore a requirement that the successful candidate for this role be fully vaccinated and have completed the mandatory incubation period prior to the candidate’s start date with McCain, subject to reasonable accommodations if you are unable to be vaccinated for protected grounds under applicable human rights legislation (e.g. medical or religious reasons).
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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Job Family: Information Technology
Division: Global Technology
Department: Partner Relations & Ops Transformation
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol || US - United States of America : Illinois : Chicago || US - United States of America : Illinois : Oakbrook Terrace Company: McCain Foods (Canada)