Data Governance Manager

Data Governance Manager – Master Data & Analytics

Compensation: $76,000–$100,000/year + triannual performance-based bonuses
Location: Minneapolis, KS preferred | Relocation assistance available | Remote candidates may be considered

Build the Data Foundation for Huyett’s Next Stage of Growth

For more than a century, Huyett has built its reputation on quality, innovation, reliability, and putting people first. We are a growing master distributor and manufacturer of industrial fasteners—and we are investing in the data capabilities that will help power our next stage of growth.

We are seeking a Data Governance Manager – Master Data & Analytics to become an enterprise leader for how Huyett defines, governs, connects, and uses information across the business.

This is not simply a data maintenance position. It is an opportunity to build and mature an enterprise capability.

You will lead governance across critical data domains including Customer, Product/SKU, Supplier, and Transaction data while helping establish the standards, architecture, processes, and information-quality practices that support better decision-making throughout the Company.

Working closely with business leaders, Information Services, Data Analytics, and subject matter experts, you will help transform trusted enterprise data into better customer targeting, personalized marketing, sales growth, sourcing decisions, operational efficiency, analytics, reporting, and future Artificial Intelligence applications.

If you enjoy bringing order to complex information, influencing people across an organization, and building systems that create lasting business value, this may be the opportunity for you.

Build Something Designed to Last

Huyett operates with a long-term mindset. We believe sustainable growth comes from investing in people, continuously improving how we work, embracing practical innovation, and building capabilities that create value well into the future.

For this role, that means you won't simply inherit a mature governance program and maintain it. You'll have the opportunity to shape how enterprise data governance develops at Huyett.

You'll work across functions and levels of the organization, gaining exposure to Information Services, Data Analytics, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations, and Executive Leadership.

As Huyett's data capabilities continue to mature, this role has the potential to grow in scope, leadership responsibility, and enterprise impact.

What You'll Lead

Enterprise Data Governance & Master Data Management
Establish and continuously improve standards, processes, ownership practices, and input specifications across Customer, Product/SKU, Supplier, Transaction, and other business domains. Help ensure enterprise information is consistently defined, measurable, governed, and suitable for business operations, analytics, and future AI applications.

Information Architecture & Analytics Enablement
Partner with Information Services and Data Analytics to translate business information requirements into effective database, integration, reporting, analytics, and data warehouse solutions. Help ensure analytical capabilities are built upon approved Systems of Record, trusted business definitions, and reliable enterprise information.

Data Architecture & Design
Partner with developers and technical resources to approve and maintain master data structures. Help create normalized, validated, and scalable frameworks that connect customer behaviors, product attributes, supplier information, transactions, and pricing to actionable business insights.

Information Quality & Continuous Improvement
Establish baselines, scorecards, and measurable objectives for Information Quality. Monitor accuracy, completeness, consistency, duplication, and reliability while identifying opportunities and leading corrective and continuous-improvement initiatives.

Customer Data & Enrichment
Improve the quality and usefulness of customer information by standardizing account structures, improving contact capture, enriching records with third-party data, validating NAICS classifications, and advancing customer stratification and segmentation.

Product, Supplier & Transaction Data
Develop and maintain governance practices that improve the quality and consistency of product, supplier, and transaction-level information used throughout Huyett's commercial and operational processes.

Analytics & Commercial Enablement
Help turn trusted enterprise information into actionable insight supporting customer segmentation, prospecting, sales growth, personalized marketing, sourcing decisions, operational performance, and other strategic initiatives.

Leadership & Change Management
Lead cross-functional information initiatives through collaboration and influence. Work with Executive Leadership, Business Leaders, Information Services, Data Analytics, Subject Matter Experts, and governance stakeholders to improve data literacy, accountability, and adoption.

What Success Looks Like

You will be successful in this role when people across Huyett have greater confidence in the information they use to make decisions.

You'll help create an environment where:

• Critical enterprise information has clear definitions, standards, and ownership.
• Customer, product, supplier, and transaction data becomes increasingly accurate, complete, timely, and useful.
• Data quality can be measured and continuously improved.
• Business and technical teams share a common understanding of Trusted Enterprise Information.
• Reporting and analytics are supported by reliable Systems of Record.
• Leaders can use information more confidently to make commercial and operational decisions.
• Huyett's data foundation is increasingly prepared to support advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence.

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who combines technical data knowledge with business judgment and the ability to lead through influence.

The strongest candidates will bring experience in several of the following areas:

• Master Data Management (MDM) and/or enterprise Data Governance.
• Data quality, stewardship, standards, ownership, and governance frameworks.
• ERP, CRM, data warehouse, Business Intelligence, or related enterprise platforms.
• Customer, product/item/SKU, supplier, pricing, or transaction data.
• Data architecture, modeling, normalization, integration, or database concepts.
• Reporting, analytics, segmentation, or commercial data applications.
• Leading cross-functional projects and influencing stakeholders without relying solely on positional authority.
• Translating technical data concepts into practical business solutions.
• Manufacturing, industrial distribution, wholesale distribution, supply chain, or similarly complex product environments.

Experience with every item above is not required. We are particularly interested in candidates who demonstrate curiosity, sound judgment, business understanding, continuous improvement, and the ability to build scalable processes.

An Opportunity to Grow

At Huyett, professional development is part of how we build the organization.

This position offers an unusual opportunity to work across business and technology functions and develop a broad understanding of how information influences customers, products, suppliers, sales, marketing, sourcing, operations, and strategy.

Rather than stepping into a narrowly defined technical lane, you'll have the opportunity to become a trusted enterprise resource and help determine what Huyett's future data capabilities look like.

For the right person, the opportunity is bigger than maintaining data.

It's about building the systems, standards, and organizational capabilities that allow data to become a competitive advantage.

Location & Flexibility

Our preference is for this position to be based in Minneapolis, KS, where the role can work closely with key business stakeholders and operations.

We recognize, however, that specialized data talent can come from anywhere.

Relocation assistance is available for the right candidate, and Huyett may consider a remote work arrangement for an exceptional candidate, with appropriate travel and in-person collaboration based on business needs.

If the opportunity interests you but geography has been the barrier, we encourage you to apply and start the conversation.

Why Huyett?

In addition to meaningful work and the opportunity to make a visible impact, Huyett offers:

• Triannual gainsharing bonuses on top of base salary.
• 401(k) with a generous employer match and year-one full vesting.
• Comprehensive benefits, including discounted health insurance options for non-tobacco users.
• Company Health Club benefits.
• Generous paid time off, paid holidays, bereavement, and parental leave.
• Comprehensive onboarding and training.
• A culture that encourages learning, professional development, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Supportive managerial feedback and opportunities to work directly with leaders across the organization.

Our Culture of Excellence

Huyett's Culture of Excellence is built around seven Core Values:

• Effective — We Deliver Results That Matter
• Learner — We Grow Through Curiosity
• Attentive — We Notice What Others Overlook
• Accountable — We Own It
• Humble — We Check Our Egos at the Door
• Transparent — We Communicate with Clarity and Honesty
• Love and Respect — We Treat People Like People

Our Excellence in Action principles reinforce those values through behaviors such as acting with integrity, making good judgments, driving innovation, using data to make decisions, being an expert, serving others, embracing change, and making personal development a routine.

For a Data Governance Manager, several of those principles are especially meaningful: Use Data to Make Decisions. Model Our Quality. Drive for Innovation. Be an Expert. Be a Change Agent.

Ready to Build With Us?

If you're looking for a role where you can do more than administer an existing data program—where you can build, influence, improve, and leave a lasting mark on an organization—we'd like to meet you.

Bring us your experience, curiosity, and ideas.

We'll give you the opportunity to help build what comes next.

Work Environment: Office setting with friendly, outgoing, team-oriented staff. Candidates should anticipate a very fast-paced, productive work environment.

EEOE: Huyett is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information.