Data Management Senior Manager

Overview

As a Data Management Senior Manager in Accenture’s Data & AI Practice, you lead major Data Management and Governance programmes, shaping strategy and delivery. You will own senior client relationships and connect data priorities to business value, risk, and strategy. You’ll steer multiple workstreams, guide teams, and influence proposals and commercial outcomes. This role sits at the intersection of governance, data quality, and AI-ready data, offering scope to drive transformative data capabilities. Join a culture that values innovation, collaboration, and industry leadership in data management.

Pay / Benefits

• up to 30 days vacation
• private medical insurance
• 3 extra days leave for charitable work
• flexibility and mobility to onsite client work

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership across complex Data Management and Governance programmes, shaping vision, roadmap, operating model and investment case
• Own senior client relationships, advise executive stakeholders and build demand by aligning data priorities with business strategy, risk and value
• Direct multiple projects or large teams, accountable for scope, delivery quality, governance, risk and outcomes
• Lead and develop managers and practitioners through workforce planning, coaching, performance leadership and succession
• Lead business development from qualification to mobilisation, including proposal shaping, pricing and negotiation
• Own and evolve market-relevant propositions, methods, accelerators and thought leadership for differentiated client offerings
• Strengthen practice capability through recruitment, knowledge sharing and cross-industry collaboration

Key requirements

• 10+ years of leadership experience in Data Management and Governance consulting or transformation
• Proven track record delivering complex, multi-workstream programmes with accountability for commercial performance and outcomes
• Experience advising senior executives and building trusted relationships across business, data, technology, risk and regulatory functions
• Leadership of managers and multidisciplinary teams, including workforce planning and talent development
• Experience originating or converting business development opportunities and leading proposals, solution shaping, pricing and negotiations
• Experience creating or owning Data Management propositions, accelerators or thought leadership
• Depth in one or more Data Management and Governance capabilities with broad market awareness
• Knowledge of Agentic Data Management, AI Observability, semantic layers, knowledge graphs and ontologies is a plus

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• communication
• Data Governance
• MDM
• Data Quality & Observability

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