About Tronox 

Tronox is the world’s leading vertically integrated manufacturer of titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment and other materials that add brightness and durability to products you encounter every day. We are 5,700 people strong, located across six continents and unified by a strong set of values that guide us in our work. At our mines and manufacturing plants, labs and offices, we responsibly transform the earth’s resources into products and opportunities that enhance lives. Our vision is to shape a sustainable, thriving world through enriched and refined minerals. 
 

About the Role 

The Principal Data Governance is responsible for establishing, implementing, and continuously improving Tronox's enterprise-wide data governance framework and processes. This role ensures that data is managed as a strategic business asset, enabling trusted decision-making, regulatory compliance, operational excellence, digital transformation, AI adoption, and business value realization.  

The role provides leadership across business and technology teams to define data ownership, accountability, quality standards, policies, controls, and governance processes. Working closely with business functions, AI, SAP teams, analytics stakeholders, cybersecurity, legal, and executive leadership, the Principal Data Governance drives a culture of data accountability across the enterprise. 

The role will be critical to: 

• Develop and execute the enterprise Data Governance Strategy and Roadmap, ensuring alignment with Tronox business objectives, SAP transformation programs, digital initiatives, AI strategy, regulatory requirements, and the target-state enterprise architecture. 

• Establish and maintain enterprise-wide data governance frameworks, including policies, standards, processes, decision rights, operating models and governance forums that support effective management of data as a strategic business asset. 

• Provide ongoing governance oversight of enterprise data assets, ensuring critical business processes source, manage and consume data from authorized systems of record while promoting consistency, integrity and trust across the organization. 

• Lead the Data Governance domain within the digital demand intake and project governance processes, ensuring new initiatives align with enterprise data principles, architecture standards, ownership models and governance requirements. 

• Drive business ownership and accountability for data, working with business leaders to define, implement and continuously improve Data Owner, Data Steward and Data Custodian responsibilities, integrated with the enterprise Decision Authority Matrix. 

• Facilitate resolution of cross-functional data challenges and risks, coordinating stakeholders across business and technology functions to address data-related issues, remove barriers, and improve governance maturity and stewardship outcomes. 

• Define and implement enterprise data quality management practices, including data quality standards, KPIs, monitoring frameworks, remediation processes and executive reporting to improve the reliability and fitness-for-purpose of critical business data. 

• Lead metadata, data catalogue and business glossary initiatives, ensuring users can discover, understand, trust and effectively utilize enterprise data assets through robust metadata standards, lineage visibility and data catalogue adoption. 

• Establish governance controls for sensitive, confidential and regulated information, partnering with Legal, Internal Audit, Cybersecurity, Privacy and Risk teams to support compliance obligations, audit readiness and effective information risk management. 

• Provide strategic leadership for Master Data Governance (MDG) by defining the enterprise master data roadmap, governing key master data domains, and leading the transition of MDG capabilities from transformation projects into sustainable business-as-usual operations. 
   

About You 

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Management, Business Information Systems or a related discipline, with postgraduate qualifications highly regarded. 

• Proven experience leading enterprise Data Governance programmes within large, complex organizations, including the development of governance frameworks, operating models, policies, standards and roadmaps. 

• Strong understanding of data ownership, stewardship and accountability models, with demonstrated ability to establish clear decision rights and drive business ownership across multiple functions and geographies. 

• Extensive experience in data quality management, including the design of quality frameworks, KPI development, root cause analysis, remediation processes and executive-level reporting. 

• Deep knowledge of metadata management, business glossaries, data catalogues and data lineage, with experience implementing and driving adoption of modern governance platforms. 

• Working knowledge of enterprise data platforms and transformation initiatives, particularly SAP S/4HANA, Databricks, analytics platforms, cloud data environments, AI solutions and digital transformation programmes. 

• Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with executive leadership, business functions, technology teams, cybersecurity, audit, legal and risk stakeholders to drive governance outcomes. 

• Relevant industry certifications are highly desirable, such as DCAM (Data Management Capability Assessment Model), CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional), DAMA, SAP MDG, TOGAF, COBIT, CISA, CGEIT, or equivalent data governance, enterprise architecture or information management certifications. 

 

Why Join Tronox? 

Our global reach is strengthened by our human connections. We challenge one another to deliver excellence and encourage our people to think big. Together, we develop innovations that make products vibrant and durable as we contribute to a cleaner world.  ​​ 

When you join Tronox, you’ll work with brilliant people, close to home and around the world. We offer a dynamic, supportive environment that empowers you to achieve your fullest potential — because we recognize that when you grow, we grow.   

In addition to offering a competitive salary and benefits, we provide a work experience that prioritizes what truly matters: 

• We strive for excellence in safety and sustainability, focusing on what is critical to improve how we operate and to enhance the communities where we work and live. 

• We provide challenging work and encourage innovative thinking, collaborating closely to bring our best ideas forward and add value for our customers.  

• We invest in and value the success of our people, empowering them to take charge of their personal and professional development.   
• We are unified globally and strengthened locally, leveraging the most culturally and geographically diverse team in the industry to connect better around the world.

 

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