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United Kingdom · Knowledge management · Principal/Manager (12-16 years)

International Information Management Coordinator Manager

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  • Experience bandPrincipal/Manager (12-16 years)
  • Direct reports10-25 reports
  • Reports toDirector, Global Knowledge & Information Strategy
  • UK framework levelUsually someone running a function, or a director

Also advertised as Head of Knowledge Management · KM Lead · Information Strategy Manager · Knowledge Management Programme Manager

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NCC Education Level 7 Diploma in Business Management NCC Education Limited · Level 7 · covers 1 of 7 standards
City & Guilds Level 5 Diploma in Principles of Leadership and Management City & Guilds Limited · Level 5 · covers 3 of 7 standards
City & Guilds Level 5 Certificate in Leadership and Management City & Guilds Limited · Level 5 · covers 3 of 7 standards
City & Guilds Level 4 Certificate in Leadership and Management City & Guilds Limited · Level 4 · covers 3 of 7 standards
City & Guilds Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management City & Guilds Limited · Level 5 · covers 3 of 7 standards
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Information Systems and Knowledge Management NCC Education Level 7 Diploma in Business Management
Managing Information City & Guilds Level 5 Diploma in Principles of Leadership and Management

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  • Knowledge Graph Architectures & Semantic Web
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3What this role really is

This job involves organising and managing information across an organisation, so people in different countries can find what they need.

4What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Strategic Platform Ownership (ECM: SharePoint Online, OpenText, etc.) Expert

Leading platform selection decisions, overseeing enterprise-wide information architecture, approving major governance policies, and managing vendor relationships for our core Enterprise Content Management systems. You won't be configuring daily, but you'll be directing the strategy.

Ontology Strategy (PoolParty Thesaurus Server, other semantic tools) Expert

Defining our enterprise ontology, making strategic decisions on linked data initiatives, and ensuring our taxonomy services integrate seamlessly with other enterprise systems like search and DAM. You'll set the direction for how we build and use semantic knowledge.

Search Strategy (Coveo, Sinequa, Elastic Search) Expert

Owning the enterprise search experience roadmap, securing budget for platform enhancements, and championing the business case for advanced semantic search capabilities. You'll ensure our employees can actually find what they need, quickly and easily.

Digital Asset Strategy (Bynder, Adobe Experience Manager) Advanced

Governing the entire lifecycle of our digital assets, integrating DAM with other MarTech/enterprise systems, and ensuring global brand and rights management compliance. You'll make sure our valuable digital assets are managed effectively.

Collaboration Governance (MS Teams, Slack, M365 Ecosystem) Advanced

Setting enterprise policy for collaboration tool usage (e.g., when to use Teams vs. email vs. SharePoint), overseeing data loss prevention (DLP) rules, and managing the overall M365/Slack ecosystem from a KM perspective. You'll bring order to our collaboration tools.

KM Analytics Strategy (Power BI, Tableau, Google Analytics) Advanced

Defining the key performance indicators (KPIs) for the entire knowledge ecosystem, presenting insights to leadership, and using data to justify investment in KM initiatives. You'll make sure we're measuring what matters and using data to drive decisions.

5What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing in Where you are nowThe step above
KM Strategy & Roadmap No input, follows established roadmap. Proposes minor adjustments to project-level plans. Defines and owns the overall KM strategy for the function, seeking alignment with the Director and executive peers.
Budget Allocation No budget authority. Manages small project budgets (up to £5K) with manager approval. Owns and manages the functional budget (up to £2M), including investment decisions for tools, resources, and programmes.
Team Hiring & Performance No involvement beyond initial interview. Provides input on junior hires, participates in interviews. Full authority for hiring, performance management, and development of the entire KM team (10-25 reports).
Information Architecture Design Applies existing metadata and content structures. Proposes improvements to specific site structures or content types. Designs and governs the enterprise-wide information architecture, taxonomy, and metadata schemas. Approves all major changes.
Vendor Selection & Management Uses existing tools, reports issues. Evaluates specific features of existing tools, makes recommendations. Selects and manages key KM technology vendors (e.g., ECM, search, taxonomy tools) up to £100K contract value, with higher values requiring Director approval.

6How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, and what is not on it. The hard targets, how often each is actually looked at, and the quiet signals that never reach a dashboard.

Reduction in Redundant Research
Measuring how much we reduce duplicated efforts where teams are researching topics already covered in our KM systems.
Target · 20% reduction year-on-year

If teams spent 100 hours last quarter on research already available, we'd aim for that to drop to 80 hours this quarter, saving us time and money.

New-Hire Onboarding Time Improvement
Tracking how quickly new employees become productive, with KM resources playing a key part.
Target · 5% faster time-to-productivity for new hires

If it typically takes 90 days for a new sales rep to hit their stride, we'd want that to drop to around 85 days, thanks to better access to sales playbooks and product info.

Information Governance Maturity Score
Assessing our overall adherence to information governance policies and best practices across the enterprise.
Target · Improve score from 2 to 4 (on a 5-point scale) over 3 years

Moving from a 'reactive' approach to information management to a 'proactive and optimised' one, as measured by an independent audit or internal framework.

KM Programme Budget Adherence
Managing the allocated budget for KM initiatives, tools, and team salaries effectively.
Target · Within ±5% of the approved annual budget

If your annual budget is £1.5M, you'd need to stay between £1.425M and £1.575M, showing you can plan and execute financially.

Stakeholder Satisfaction with KM Services
How happy our business unit leaders are with the KM solutions and support your team provides.
  • Regular positive feedback in executive reviews
  • business leaders actively seeking your team's input on new initiatives
  • high participation rates in KM-led workshops
  • informal feedback from key users.
Team Engagement & Retention
The health and stability of your direct team, reflecting your leadership and the team's sense of purpose.
  • Low voluntary turnover rates within your team
  • positive results in internal engagement surveys for your department
  • team members actively contributing to internal knowledge sharing
  • individuals seeking out development opportunities.
Quality of Strategic Input to Leadership
How effectively you articulate KM's value and influence broader organisational strategy.
  • Your proposals for KM initiatives are frequently approved
  • you're regularly invited to contribute to cross-functional strategic planning sessions
  • your insights are cited by senior leaders
  • you're seen as the go-to expert for information-related challenges.
KM Culture & Adoption
The extent to which knowledge sharing and good information practices are embedded in our day-to-day operations.
  • Increased user-generated content in KM systems
  • active participation in Communities of Practice
  • positive comments about 'findability' in internal surveys
  • fewer instances of 'shadow IT' for information storage.

7Would you like it

Both sides. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Building a Smarter Organisation

You get a real kick out of seeing your team's work directly lead to quicker decisions, less duplicated effort, and a more informed workforce. When a new KM initiative successfully launches and you see adoption numbers climb, that's your fuel.

You oversee the launch of a new global sales playbook repository. Within weeks, sales teams report a 15% reduction in time spent searching for product info, directly leading to faster deal cycles. That's a win for you.

Leading and Developing Talent

You genuinely enjoy coaching your team, helping them grow their skills, and seeing them take on bigger challenges. Their success is your success. You're always looking for ways to empower them and remove blockers.

You mentor a junior analyst on your team, helping them to lead their first major content audit project. Seeing them present their findings confidently to a senior business unit leader gives you immense satisfaction.

Solving Complex Organisational Puzzles

The thought of tackling a messy, enterprise-wide information challenge, breaking it down, and designing an elegant solution energises you. You thrive on bringing order to chaos and creating systems that truly work at scale.

You're tasked with integrating knowledge from a newly acquired company. It's a huge, complex undertaking with disparate systems and cultures, but you see it as an exciting challenge to architect a unified knowledge base.

What frustrates people
  • The 'SharePoint Janitor' Perception: Still fighting the idea that your team just cleans up messy sites, rather than being strategic architects.
  • Taxonomy Ignorance: Despite all your efforts, some users will still ignore the carefully crafted taxonomy and dump content into 'Misc.'
  • The SME Bottleneck: Subject Matter Experts are consistently 'too busy' to contribute or validate content, yet are the first to complain the intranet is outdated.
  • The 'Magic Search Box' Fallacy: Constantly explaining to leadership that a better search engine won't fix fundamental 'garbage-in, garbage-out' content problems.
  • Shadow IT Sabotage: Battling against departments using unsanctioned tools like Dropbox or Google Drive, undermining your central repositories.
  • The Politics of Ownership: Mediating turf wars between departments over who 'owns' and controls critical information.
  • Proving ROI: The value of finding information quickly is immense but notoriously difficult to quantify, making it a challenge to secure budget against revenue-generating departments.
What this role does not give you
  • A purely technical, hands-on coding role – you'll be leading and strategising more than building.
  • A static, predictable environment – the world of information management is always evolving, and so are our business needs.
  • Complete autonomy without accountability – you'll have significant freedom, but with significant responsibility for outcomes and team performance.
  • A role where you can avoid difficult conversations – you'll need to challenge assumptions and push back when necessary.

8Who you work with

This role directly shapes our organisation's ability to learn, adapt, and compete globally. By ensuring critical knowledge is accessible and accurate, you'll reduce operational costs, speed up decision-making, and frankly, make us a much smarter business. Your decisions here will affect how thousands of employees work every single day.

Inside the business
  • SVP of Operations
  • Heads of Product, Sales, and Marketing (globally)
  • Regional Business Unit Leaders
  • IT Leadership
Outside the business
  • Knowledge Management industry bodies (e.g., KM Institute)
  • Key KM technology vendors (e.g., Microsoft, PoolParty)
  • Consultancy partners on large-scale projects

9What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • Proven track record of 5+ years in a leadership or management role within Knowledge Management or a closely related field (e.g., Information Architecture, Content Strategy).
  • Demonstrable experience leading large-scale KM programmes or projects from conception through to successful adoption across an enterprise.
  • Significant experience managing and developing a team of KM specialists, including performance management and career development.
  • Extensive experience in designing and implementing enterprise-wide information architectures, taxonomies, and metadata strategies.
  • A strong understanding of KM technology ecosystems, including ECM, enterprise search, and collaboration platforms, and experience with vendor management.
  • Excellent strategic communication skills, with a proven ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders and drive organisational change.
  • A Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Library Science, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

10What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Digital Adoption Platforms (DAP) Integration

We invest heavily in KM tools, but if people don't use them effectively, it's wasted money. DAPs (like WalkMe or Appcues) provide in-application guidance, training, and analytics to ensure users actually adopt and use our KM systems as intended. You'll need to understand how to integrate these to maximise our KM ROI.

In-App Guidance & Walkthroughs · User Analytics & Behaviour Tracking · Contextual Help & Support

  • This quarter: Research leading DAP vendors and their capabilities.
  • Next 3 months: Identify a low-adoption KM tool within our stack and explore how a DAP could improve its usage.
  • Next 6 months: Work with your team to pilot a DAP for a specific KM feature or system.
  • Next 12 months: Develop a strategy for integrating DAPs across our core KM platforms to drive consistent user adoption.

Quick win: Start by reviewing the analytics of our least-used KM feature. What are the common drop-off points? This will give you immediate insight into where a DAP could help.

11Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Active participation in global KM communities and associations (e.g., KMWorld, APQC).
  • Regularly attending industry conferences and webinars to stay abreast of emerging trends and technologies (especially around AI and semantic web).
  • Mentoring junior KM professionals, which helps solidify your own understanding and leadership skills.
  • Contributing thought leadership through articles, blog posts, or presentations on KM best practices.
  • Pursuing continuous learning in areas like organisational psychology, data analytics, and digital transformation.

12The rising capability

The rising capability

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What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

AI Governance & Ethical KM

With generative AI becoming mainstream, we're seeing an explosion of AI-generated content and new ways to process information. This brings up huge questions around data privacy, intellectual property, bias in AI outputs, and how we ensure the ethical use of these tools in our KM systems. As a leader, you'll need to define our guardrails.

  • AI Policy Development
  • Data Lineage & Provenance
  • Bias Detection & Mitigation
  • Intellectual Property & Copyright

Knowledge Graph Architectures & Semantic Web

Traditional taxonomies are great, but knowledge graphs take it to the next level by representing complex relationships between entities (people, projects, documents, concepts). This enables truly intelligent search, personalised recommendations, and powerful analytics. We're moving beyond simple tagging to building a truly interconnected web of knowledge.

  • Nodes and Edges
  • RDF and OWL
  • Graph Databases (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune)
  • Linked Data Principles

13What you’ll use

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Taxonomy & Ontology Design (Strategic Oversight)
  • Information Architecture (Enterprise Governance)
  • Content Lifecycle Management (Policy & Enforcement)
  • Knowledge Auditing & Mapping (Strategic Planning)
  • Metadata Strategy & Governance (Enterprise-wide)
  • Community of Practice (CoP) Sponsorship & Scaling

14The pathway

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Senior Information Management Specialist (L3)

    5-7 years to reach Manager level

    Skills to master

    • Leading complex KM projects, mentoring junior staff, designing departmental taxonomies, and effectively managing stakeholder expectations.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully led 3+ significant KM projects end-to-end.
    • Consistently received positive feedback on mentorship and guidance of junior colleagues.
    • Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
    • Developed and presented strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
  2. 2

    Lead Knowledge Architect (L4)

    3-5 years to reach Manager level

    Skills to master

    • Designing and implementing enterprise-wide information architectures, metadata schemas, and search tuning strategies. Building and leading small functional teams or workstreams.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Architected and deployed a major information architecture solution across a significant part of the organisation.
    • Managed a small team or a major workstream with clear accountability for outcomes.
    • Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value for senior stakeholders.
    • Successfully managed aspects of a KM budget or resource allocation.
  3. 3

    Programme Manager (from other functions)

    4-6 years to transition and reach Manager level

    Skills to master

    • Deep dive into KM methodologies and technologies, understanding information governance, and building credibility as a KM subject matter expert. Adapting programme management skills to KM-specific challenges.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully managed large, complex programmes with significant change management components.
    • Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new domain-specific knowledge (e.g., KM principles).
    • Strong track record of stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership.
    • Expressed a clear passion and understanding for the strategic importance of knowledge management.

15Where this role leads

The long view: This work can lead to roles such as Chief Knowledge Officer or VP of Information Strategy, or into a specialist path as a Principal Knowledge Architect.

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  • Taxonomy & Ontology Design (Strategic Oversight)
  • Information Architecture (Enterprise Governance)
  • Content Lifecycle Management (Policy & Enforcement)
  • Knowledge Auditing & Mapping (Strategic Planning)
  • Metadata Strategy & Governance (Enterprise-wide)
  • Community of Practice (CoP) Sponsorship & Scaling
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Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

International Information Management Coordinator Manager is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Director, Global Knowledge & Information Strategy (L6)

    3-5 years in the Manager role

    This is a significant step up, moving from managing a function to shaping the entire business unit's knowledge capability and strategy. You'll report directly to the C-suite.

    • Defining multi-year KM technology roadmap and vendor partnerships
    • Leading enterprise-wide information governance frameworks
    • Shaping organisational culture around knowledge sharing at the highest level
    • Driving innovation in KM through emerging technologies (e.g., advanced AI, quantum KM)
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, managing knowledge across a global organisation is a massive undertaking. But what if you could give your team superpowers? AI isn't just a buzzword; it's a game-changer for Knowledge Management, and as a Manager, you'll be at the forefront of driving this transformation.

This isn't about replacing your team; it's about empowering them to focus on the truly strategic work. By intelligently applying AI, you can automate the tedious, repetitive tasks that drain your team's time, freeing them up to design better architectures, build stronger communities, and deliver deeper insights. Think of it as scaling your team's impact without scaling headcount.

Automated Content Classification & Tagging

Oversee the implementation of AI models (like Azure Cognitive Services) that automatically read documents and suggest metadata tags based on your enterprise taxonomy. This drastically reduces the manual effort of content ingestion for your team, ensuring consistency and speed. You'll set the rules; AI does the heavy lifting.

Enhanced Semantic Search & Insight Generation

Champion the deployment of AI-powered search tools that understand user intent, not just keywords. This means employees can ask natural language questions like 'What's our Q3 sales strategy for EMEA?' and get synthesised answers from multiple documents. Your role shifts to optimising the search experience and demonstrating its value to leadership.

Strategic SME Discovery & Knowledge Harvesting

Direct the use of AI tools to scan internal communications and documents, automatically identifying and mapping tacit knowledge holders across the organisation. This helps your team proactively harvest critical knowledge from experts, especially those nearing retirement, ensuring vital information isn't lost. You'll use this to inform your talent and succession planning.

Intelligent Content Summarisation & Curation

Establish policies and oversee the use of generative AI to create executive summaries of long reports, meeting transcripts, and project debriefs. These summaries can be automatically added as metadata, making lengthy content more scannable and accessible. You'll ensure quality control and ethical use of AI-generated content.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become an International Information Management Coordinator Manager?

Common routes in include Senior Information Management Specialist (5-7 years to reach Manager level), Lead Knowledge Architect (3-5 years to reach Manager level) and Programme Manager (from other functions) (4-6 years to transition and reach Manager level). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can an International Information Management Coordinator Manager progress to?

This role can lead on to Director, Global Knowledge & Information Strategy (3-5 years in the Manager role), depending on the skills you build.

What new skills matter most for an International Information Management Coordinator Manager?

Increasingly, AI Governance & Ethical KM and Knowledge Graph Architectures & Semantic Web. These are the skills our record of this role lists as growing.

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17Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 6

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

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If you leave this industry

The skills involved apply across industries, since every organisation has to manage its information. This can lead to work in consulting, tech, financial services or government.

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