Data Lead

Simplot Australia is a food manufacturing and agriculture business encompassing potato, vegetable, seafood, and sauce operations that supply chilled, frozen, and shelf-stable products to Australia's major retail and foodservice markets.

We are home to some of Australia's most loved and trusted food brands, including Birds Eye, Edgell, Leggo's, John West, and Chiko. We have six Australian manufacturing sites and employ more than 2,000 people across Australia and New Zealand.

As a leading provider of quality, nourishing and sustainable food, we are focussed on bringing to life Aussie grown produce. We embrace sustainable practices that care for our planet's precious resources today and for generations to come. We are an integral part of the global JR Simplot Company.

**Culture and Benefits**:
At Simplot, we are fuelled by our purpose: We Contribute to Feeding Our World. We imagine a better future and set goals to reach it. We are committed to working as one Simplot and are guided by our shared values:

- Respect for Resources
- Spirit of Innovation
- Passion for People

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion. We care about creating an environment that promotes safety and wellbeing and where our people feel supported, respected and empowered. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all our team members.

Simplot is passionate about cultivating a future where good ideas and inspiring possibilities have the chance to grow. We want our team members to build exciting and fulfilling careers with us and offer professional and personal growth opportunities.

**The Perks**:

- Flexible working arrangements and a variety of engaging Health and Wellbeing programs
- Diverse Leadership Development Programs and Professional Development Support
- Employee Reward and Recognition Program
- Bonus incentives
- Discounted Health Insurance and Gym Memberships
- Sensory Club Program - Enjoy and taste our new product launches and access to our Culinary cooking sessions
- Novated Car Leasing Agreements
- Income Protection Insurance
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave

Simplot Australia values the innovation and relationship building that comes from face to face connection but also recognises the need for flexibility in the lives of our team members. This is why we have a hybrid work environment, with one dedicated day per week where we all come together to maintain our successful culture of innovation, connection and collaboration.

**About our Role**:
As our Data Lead you will deliver a critical role in maximizing the utility of our master data. You will have a deep curiosity for exploring how master data is used and a drive to improve the quality of the data to support operational efficiencies and complex decision making. This role requires broad business acumen coupled with a strong technical skill set for transforming data.

The Data Lead will establish strong partnerships with business stakeholders and capture detailed requirements to enable effective engagement in projects, stakeholder meetings, and end user processes. Maintaining on-going awareness of changing business needs and systems as they relate to master data usage is essential. Once standardized master data is in place, you will develop reporting and tools to actively monitor the data to ensure the standards are upheld.

**What will you do**:

- Participate in meetings with stakeholders to map data attributes from source to target systems to enable standardization and system to system conversions.
- Build a thorough understanding of the use case for each in-scope attribute to ensure all business rules are captured. Work with stakeholders to simplify attributes where multiple use cases exist to create enterprise alignment.
- Profile data to ensure each source to target attribute is properly mapped based on its definition and use case. Additionally, understand the extent to which each attribute is standardized.
- Record and communicate observations made during profiling. Develop action plans in collaboration with the business to address the requirements and issues identified.
- Identify and propose automated data transformations that conform source system data to meet the standardization requirements in the target system. Partner with business users for manual transformation methods when automation is not possible.
- Partner closely with business and IT to ensure adequate testing and validation is conducted to ensure the data is complete and accurate before loading into production environments.
- Partner with Enterprise Data Governance to define data quality metrics relevant to each master data domain.
- Collaborate on reporting solutions to actively monitor data quality, and construct workflows to engage data stewards in correcting data quality issues in a timely manner.

**About you**:

- Significant experience in data management
- You will be skilled at using SQL scripts to analyse and