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Hedehusene, Region Hovedstaden, Danmark
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Job Title: Head of Data Excellence
Location: Hedehusene, Denmark
Ready to help build a better future for generations to come?
In an ever-changing, fast paced world, we owe it to ourselves and our future generations to live life responsibly. At ROCKWOOL, we work relentlessly to enrich modern living through our innovative stone wool solutions.
Join us a our new Head of Data Excellence, where you will be able to combine deep data management expertise with strong commercial thinking to lead across boaders, and orgnisational boundaries.
Rockwool is on an exciting journey with the goal of delivering exceptional process and data excellence that drive standardisation, efficiency, sustainability, and market leadership. We have launched RockONE - our global business transformation programme to modernise digital capabilities, business processes, and enterprise data management supporting an ERP transformation.
Join us and make a difference!
Your future team:
This strategic leadership role sits within ROCKWOOL's newly build Data Excellence organisation, which leads the company's enterprise data strategy and governance. While the role plays a key part in RockONE, it is part of a long-term function with responsibility for embedding data excellence across the business well beyond the programme itself.
You will lead the Data Management Excellence department, working closely with the newly established Process Excellence team, RockONE programme, Steering Committee, Digital leaders, OPCOs, and Group Functions. Together, you'll establish the governance, ownership, and standards that enable data to become a trusted strategic asset across the enterprise.
What you will be doing:
As Head of Data Management Excellence, you will establish and lead ROCKWOOL's future enterprise data management capability while driving the structure data structures with the RockONE programme. You will combine strategic leadership with hands-on execution to ensure data governance and quality are embedded from the outset.
You will:
Define and evolve ROCKWOOL's enterprise data management strategy, governance framework, and policies.
Build, lead, and develop three high-performing teams of data owners, stewards, and governance specialists.
Lead the Data Structures for RockONE setting priorities, roadmaps, KPIs, and governance while managing dependencies across projects.
Establish enterprise data models, business definitions, taxonomies, and data standards.
Drive the implementation of master data management, data quality, and stewardship practices across the organisation.
Ensure compliance with privacy, security, regulatory, and audit requirements through effective data governance.
Measure and continuously improve organisational data maturity, demonstrating the business value of data management initiatives and driving adoption across the enterprise.
What you bring:
We're looking for an experienced enterprise data leader who combines strategic thinking with the ability to deliver lasting organizational change. You have successfully built data management capabilities, influenced senior stakeholders, and led complex transformation initiatives across business and technology.
You bring:
Extensive experience leading the business enterprise data management and governance in large, international organisations.
Strong expertise in master data management, data quality, metadata, enterprise data modelling, and governance frameworks.
A proven track record delivering data capabilities as part of ERP, digital, or enterprise transformation programmes.
Experience building and developing high-performing teams while influencing senior business and technology leaders.
Strong communication and change leadership skills, with the ability to translate complex data concepts into business value.
Thrives in global organisations with a commercial mindset, strong stakeholder management skills, and a commitment to driving continuous improvement in data management practices.
Ready to apply?
Please attached your CV and application through the official channel. Due to vacation, we will start screening and interviewing at the beginning of August.
Who we are
At ROCKWOOL Group, we are committed to enriching the lives of everyone who experiences our products and services. We help our customers and communities tackle many of today’s biggest sustainability and development challenges, from energy consumption and noise pollution to fire resilience, water scarcity, and flooding. Our product range reflects the diversity of the world’s needs, while supporting our stakeholders in reducing their own carbon footprint.
Stone wool is a fully recyclable, versatile material that forms the basis of all our businesses. With more than 13,000 dedicated colleagues in around 40 countries and sales in more than 120, we are the world leader in stone wool products, from building insulation to acoustic ceilings, external cladding systems to horticultural solutions, engineered fibres for industrial use to insulation for the process industry, and marine & offshore.
Sustainability is central to our business strategy. ROCKWOOL was one of the first companies to commit to actively contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) framework and are actively committed to 11 SDGs, including SDG 14, Life Below Water. Through our partnership with the One Ocean Foundation and in connection with our sponsorship of the Denmark SailGP team, we will help raise awareness around ocean health challenges in an effort to accelerate solutions to protect it.
Diverse and Inclusive Culture
We want all our people to feel valued, respected, included and heard. We employ 79 different nationalities worldwide and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees, promote diversity, and work against all forms of discrimination among ROCKWOOL employees.
At ROCKWOOL, you will experience a friendly team environment. Our culture is very important to us. In fact, we refer to our culture as “The ROCKWOOL Way”. This is the foundation in which we operate and is based upon our values of ambition, responsibility, integrity and efficiency.