Data Governance Portfolio Consultant

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Job Description

The Data Governance Portfolio Consultant is responsible for understanding data problems, projects and strategies and working towards specific goals. This role is responsible for working with stakeholders to represent the business needs and partnering with Technology to influence key decision makers. Provides support to the Data Governance Portfolio Manager.

• Provides support in the governance of business data to ensure data is consistent, accurate, available, and accessible
• Contributes to the common vision by elevating the organizations' commitment to clean, reliable, and accurate customer and business data
• Ensure a cross functional view of business data is available to the enterprise
• Implement processes to maintain high quality data assets
• Contributes to project milestones associated with specific data & analytics projects or activities within own department or workgroup
• Manages work through a cohesive plan that outlines objectives, timelines, risks, and deliverables enabling the movement of the most important work forward
• Proactively communicates risks, issues and status to leadership and key stakeholders
• Solves problems to ensure task completion by establishing priorities and resolving conflicts with team members and functional mangers
• Compilation of Data Governance program/project status reports, follow-up for timely updates on health/risk issues, escalation and maintenance of Data Strategy Principle & Policy (DSPP) exception logs and additional tasks as assigned by the Portfolio Manager.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required, MBA preferred
• 2-4 years of business experience and/or business project management experience
• Uses sound decision making capabilities including problem solving approaches, decision frameworks; ability to support routine to complex analysis
• Has strong aptitude to understand Allstate systems and data.
• Has an understanding of financial services/Property and Casualty consumer trends, industry/ competitive dynamics, and economics;
• Ability to synthesize large amounts of data into meaningful conclusions and recommendations
• Possesses quantitative and analytical skills
• Manage multiple priorities given aggressive timelines; comfortable performing in a fast paced, dynamic and ambiguous business environment; manage both internal and external resources
• Ability to design and lead data and technology heavy projects
• Ability to revise tactics to support changing strategies and direction.
• Ability to inspire trust
• Excellent presentation skills; dynamically (persuasively) presenting ideas to management

Level Guide: Please refer to the Allstate Level Guide on MyHr Knowledge

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.

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