Principal Consultant - Data Governance (Strategy Execution & Value Realization)

Inbox Business Technologies is looking for an experienced Principal Consultant — Data Governance to own the data-and-AI-vertical governance relationship within a multi-vertical Strategy Execution & Value Realization Office, ensuring strategic initiatives within that vertical are delivered with rigorous governance, measurable benefits, and sustained architectural compliance. Act as the senior escalation point for cross-vertical dependencies and the primary governance counterpart to executive stakeholders.

Employment Type: Full-time employment

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and own the operating model, governance structure, methodologies, templates and tools used to run strategy execution governance for the data-and-AI vertical, as part of a broader multi-vertical governance office.
• Own cross-vertical coordination for the data-and-AI vertical — portfolio visibility, dependency mapping against other verticals, and escalation of issues that exceed a single vertical's authority.
• Own the governance framework for strategic-initiative delivery: stage gates, milestones, risk/issue/dependency management, budget oversight, quality and change-request governance across the vertical's strategic objectives and initiatives.
• Lead the governance relationship with the Enterprise Architecture function — coordinating Architecture Review Board participation, maintaining architecture decision records, and ensuring solution designs remain compliant with enterprise standards.
• Own the executive reporting relationship for the vertical: executive dashboards, portfolio reports, scorecards and decision-support insights, reported on an agreed cadence to senior stakeholders.
• Set the benefit-realization methodology for the vertical — defining success measures, validating business cases, and confirming that initiatives deliver expected value before closure.
• Develop and own governance frameworks, methodologies, standards, templates and playbooks used across the vertical's portfolio, including oversight of the KPI cascade tooling that connects strategic themes down to operational KPIs.
• Lead periodic maturity assessments of governance, portfolio management and value-realization capability, benchmarking against industry practice and directing improvement initiatives.
• Own transition and continuity planning for the vertical's governance function at the end of the current strategy horizon, including options for continuation, re-tender or in-house transition.
• Provide senior mentorship and quality oversight to the Senior Consultant supporting the vertical.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Data Management, Information Systems, Business, Engineering) with a minimum of 8 years' relevant experience in data governance, enterprise/programme governance, or strategy execution advisory — including at least 3-5 years operating at a principal/senior-advisory level with direct executive stakeholder engagement.
• Demonstrable experience designing and running governance operating models for large, multi-workstream strategic portfolios.
• Demonstrable experience engaging Enterprise Architecture functions, Architecture Review Boards, and senior executive stakeholders in complex organisations.
• Portfolio and programme governance frameworks (e.g., MoP, MSP, P3O); data governance frameworks (e.g., DAMA-DMBOK).
• Benefits realization methodology, KPI architecture design and executive reporting.
• Executive stakeholder engagement, escalation management and cross-functional facilitation.
• CDMP (DAMA) — preferred; PMP / PgMP or MoP — preferred; TOGAF — a plus.

Equal Opportunity & Inclusion

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive fair consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or pregnancy.

At Inbox Business Technologies, we celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive space where every team member is valued. We strongly encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply and contribute their unique ideas, experiences, and voices to a company that believes in equality and embraces new ways of thinking.