Job Description

The opportunity for you

We are looking for a highly organised and proactive Data Steward Manager to lead and support our team of Data Stewards based in Liverpool. This team plays a central role in maintaining the quality, consistency, and reliability of client and matter data across the firm — underpinning vital processes in compliance, billing, reporting, and business development.

In this leadership role, you’ll work closely with stakeholders across the business, ensuring our data remains accurate, well‑governed, and aligned to firmwide standards while supporting key change and transformation activity, including data alignment work associated with our merger.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, supervise, and develop a team of Data Stewards, ensuring effective workload management and service delivery.
• Oversee data quality activity across multiple systems, identifying issues and working with stakeholders to resolve them.
• Review and improve processes to ensure best practice in data management.
• Maintain consistent data housekeeping across firm databases to support efficient operations.
• Support the Head of Architecture & Data in shaping team standards, training, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to merger‑related data consolidation and alignment activity.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Experience in data governance, data management, information governance, or a similar role.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work across technical and non‑technical teams.
• Skilled in supervising, supporting, and training team members.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to synthesise information from multiple sources.
• Familiarity with data quality standards, regulatory requirements (including GDPR), and data governance frameworks.
• Experience working in a legal or professional services environment is advantageous.
• Confident managing your own workload while supporting team priorities.

Benefits

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer;

• Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week)
• Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata).
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child).

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available.

Our culture

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation. We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team. We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

The way we work

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.

Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition.

With 1250+ lawyers, 350+ partners, 26 offices and 16 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our IT Services team, with the addition of a Data Steward Manager.

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