Global Policy & Governance Manager

Job Summary

Western Digital is strengthening how we govern policies and process documentation across the enterprise. This role will build and own the global governance documentation management program, creating and maintaining a SharePoint‑based central policy repository and partnering across all business functions to identify, author, organize, approve, publish, and maintain authoritative governance content (policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, charters).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Program build‑out & ownership

• Stand up and continuously improve an enterprise SharePoint Online repository for governance documents, including information architecture, metadata/taxonomy, content types, versioning, permissions, retention, search, and workflow automation. 
• Define and socialize the governance documentation framework (scope, definitions, document types, naming conventions, approval paths, lifecycle controls).

Cross‑functional intake & discovery

• Partner with across Western Digital to identify required policies and process documentation, and to aggregate and organize existing governance artifacts (guidelines, procedures, standards, charters, playbooks).
• Incorporate and reference key enterprise materials (e.g., IMS playbooks and numbered governance documents) to ensure a single source of truth.

Authoring & editorial support

• Work with document owners/SMEs to draft or update policies and procedures, ensure clarity and consistency, and apply WD branding and numbering standards.
• Engagement with SOX & Audit team to align documentation with audit findings, as well as support SOX and Audits by providing relevant governance documentation.

Approval, publishing & lifecycle management

• Guide owners through approvals; manage publishing, review cycles, and controlled updates on defined cadence (e.g., annual/biannual), maintaining audit‑ready evidence and traceability.

Compliance, audit‑readiness & risk control

• Establish controls and documentation that meet internal audit, SOX, ISO/QMS, data governance, and security requirements (including least‑privilege access and external sharing safeguards for SharePoint).

Change management & enablement

• Create training, quick guides, and communications; host clinics for authors/approvers; champion adoption across sites and functions.

Metrics & reporting

• Define KPIs and dashboards (e.g., % coverage of policy inventory, cycle time for approvals, % docs current vs. expired, repository usage/adoption, audit issues remediated).