Data Steward
Based: Remote, within the UK
Type: Initial 12-month, full-time contract
Salary: Up to £400 per day contractor or £65,000 PAYE
We're setting up a new role to support the improvement and quality of our client’s data in the EMEA Region, as part of a wider migration programme.
In this hands-on role, you will be the key person responsible for ensuring the completeness, quality, and accuracy of data from multiple sources, supporting the timely launch of new products across multiple regions. You’ll play a critical role in QA, validating and cross-checking data across various systems, ensuring it meets the necessary standards for product launches.
Key Responsibilities
- Data Validation: Ensure that all mandatory product data across core systems is complete, accurate, and up to date. Ensuring QA process is followed across ecommerce platforms.
- Data Stewardship: Coordinate with data owners to correct discrepancies in data and ensure consistency across systems.
- Problem-Solving: Identify areas where data quality can be improved and work with various teams to implement solutions.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Communicate with stakeholders to clarify data requests and address any data-related issues, ensuring alignment with launch schedules.
- Data Tracking & Reporting: Create and manage detailed reports on product data status and product launch progress.
Skills & Experience
- Data Management Expertise: Minimum of 5 years of experience working with data management principles and data integrity concepts.
- Tool Proficiency: Advanced skills in Excel, and other data tools to maintain and manage data inputs and outputs. This includes dashboard creation.
- Data Systems Knowledge: Familiarity with a range of data management systems.
- Data Lifecycle Understanding: Ability to manage and understand the complete lifecycle of product data from creation to launch.
- Analytical & Detail-Oriented: Strong analytical mindset with keen attention to detail and the ability to spot discrepancies or gaps in data.
- Communication Skills: Effective communication with both business and technical stakeholders, ensuring clarity in data-related discussions.
- Ecommerce or Retail Experience: Experience working in an ecommerce or retail environment, especially with platforms that serve multiple countries and markets.
About Smartdesc
Smartdesc is a UK based IT consultancy who provide IT Managed Services, Project and Programme Management, Technical, Development and Business Analysis resources to national and international organisations.
Staff who work for Smartdesc are of the highest quality, and one of the main reasons for our success. We promote from within, pay for your training and certifications, and have fun in a growing and exciting atmosphere. This means staff stay with us for years, because we invest heavily in them - our retention rate is 98% which is far above the competition.
We are a flat management structure without internal politics, and staff are given a high degree of autonomy to do their jobs to the best of their ability. We celebrate success as a team and you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in a diverse range of cutting edge technologies and systems, and never pigeonholed into one single area.
Successful candidates deliver exceptional customer support through effort, integrity and honesty. Smartdesc deliver ethical, transparent and customer focused IT services and consultancy; new team members are carefully picked to ensure they enhance Smartdesc’s ethos and share our values.
