CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real estate a significant contributor to organizational productivity and performance. Our account management model is at the heart of our client-centric approach to delivering integrated real estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, demonstrating the industry's most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, and across industries and geographies.
About the role
This position incubates and establishes Data Governance function to support CBRE business segments, corporate functions and the Digital & Technology partners. The responsibility includes:
- Participate in the strategy, planning, and execution for Enterprise Data Governance at CBRE, focusing on Global Workplace Solutions business segment. Ensure the company has urgency, sensitivity and thought leadership for competitive capabilities around data. Define medium and long-term data strategy and operational framework needed to meet enterprise, business and regulatory priorities.
- Proven leadership experience in a large, sophisticated, global organization, including the ability to effectively work and communicate across organizational lines. Ensure business partner understanding, alignment and dedication to the objectives of the data governance and management program(s).
- Demonstrated experience in building relationships and leading high-performing teams with top talents around the world. Build a high performance, global environment and implement a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by encouraging an inclusive work environment, presenting vision/ values/ business strategy and leading succession and development planning for the team.
- Collaborate with partners across business segments/ business lines, regions and accounts to develop consistent data governance capabilities at all levels, influencing decisions relating to policy, practices, supporting technology, and talent development.
- Establish leading data management practices and shared services relating to data quality, data provisioning, metadata, lineage, reference data, issue management and organizational change.
- Implement data governance as commodity services that could be used by various clients in different industries. Understand clients’ appetite and risk culture in day-to-day support activities and decision-making.
- Establish data standards, policies and controls. Design and implement the framework, including associated processes, vital to sustain a data control environment. Supervise compliance with data policies and standards.
- Define data domains and implement business oversight via crucial data governance organizations and RACI (i.e. central data governance function, Data Ownership and Stewardship Program, etc.).
- Establish a data quality framework vital to enable data quality reporting, issue identification, remediation and tracking, ultimately ensuring trust and confidence in data across domains.
- Guide the client accounts to embrace the strategic data products including existing account migrations and new account transitions. Lead data to support CBRE and its clients’ business.