Senior Manager- Product Master Data Management

Responsibilities

Candidate Profile
The requirements of the role include:
•    As a Master Data Specialist, you have completed a university degree/studies or equivalent education     
•    You are well educated in the area of master data analysis with SAP S/4HANA and SAP Master Data Governance 
•    SAP Ariba or SAP HANA knowledge is beneficial
•    You are proficient in working with MS Office (especially in Outlook, OneNote, Word, and Excel)
•    Additionally, you have advanced experience in Excel
•    Knowledge of Informatica P360 or Syniti are considered an advantage
•    Very good English skills, German language skills are a plus
•    A high degree of motivation, excellent analytical and conceptual skills and a results and customer-oriented style of working describe you
•    You possess strong communication skills and a good sense of responsibility
•    Team player with strong analytical, cooperation and communication skills
•    Enjoyment working in a dynamic team 
•    Reliability, structured approach, and independence characterize your strengths in working
•    Ensuring accuracy and quality in all tasks is facilitated by your meticulous attention to detail
•    You have a confident and compelling demeanor towards both internal and external stakeholder
•    You collaborate closely with various international departments and country organizations of the ALDI SÜD Group
•    Creating Data Quality report requests on behalf of the business teams to be implemented by the IT teams is part of your tasks
•    Act as the SME in the Master data management activities
•    Train and mentor other team members to ensure seamless delivery
•    Ensure master data integrity between modules & systems at efficient quality and accuracy, Coordinate, Analyse and facilitate resolution of issues
•    Assist & Train resources involved in the data collection process, Develop procedure/business rules for data collection
•    Perform Regression Testing or Change Request Testing, Generate & Analyse regular reports: statistics of MD Maintenance (e.g., no. of errors, lead time violation, etc) & Data Quality Key performance indicators.
•    Support the business unit team for expediting the master-data creation of fast-track projects.
•    Ensure SLA (Service Level Agreements) for lead times and data quality are fully met
•    Highlight lesson learned on frequent issues, Support regular Master Data Health Check & Audit Trail validation
•    Propose opportunities for improvement of Master Data Quality
•    Ensuring consistent Data & Data structure within SAP of Material Master Data / Customer master/ Vendor Master / Pricing master
•    Leading Master data management processes related to the creation, maintenance, and quality of all master and reference data
•    Owning the data requirements for the implementation and turnovers to external teams
•    Serving as the strategic point of reference for data within business as principal voice of contact for data quality
•    Training & Onboarding of pertinent teams.
•    Guiding and leading cross-functional teams in implementation of data
•    Analysing and reporting metrics of master data to reduce customer data issues and improved customer data quality in order to ensure that teams follow and support customer data governance policies
•    Developing and improving business processes through tools, metrics to enable decision making

Minimum Qualifications

•    Master’s and Bachelor’s degree
•    Self-starter, Strong analytical skills, and problem-solving skills.
•    Proven work experience as a Sr Team member, Subject matter Expert 
•    Effective communicate in writing and verbally to client. Experience in balancing customer facing role and work assessments.
•    Relevant experience – Years

Preferred Qualifications