Position Overview
The Material MD Specialist will report to the Material Master Data Team Leader. They will work closely with the Regional/Global community and Process Owners to ensure that material master data is complete and accurate and maintained to the level required to support efficient and effective operation of ConvaTec’s global processes. This includes improving and setting standards for data quality, creating & cleansing the master data sets, processing the creation and amendments to master data, monitoring data to ensure that it meets those standards and working with business users to ensure data errors are corrected, identifying continuous improvement initiatives to ensure that master data quality is maintained.
Key Responsibilities
Process requests for creation, change, blocking/unblocking, extending and flagging material master data for deletion within quality targets and SLAs set
Understand the structure of key data items, relationships between them and use in internal reporting
Assist in the creation and maintenance of Work Instructions, Standard Operating Procedures, Policies and training material for Master Data Management
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve existing processes towards a lean and efficient process flow
Assist in the creation and embedding of Data Governance within ConvaTec. This will include creation and maintenance of Data Owners, Data Stewards, Data Dictionaries, Data Quality Rules, etc
Assist in the implementation of tools and processes to create and maintain master data
Become a subject matter expert and “go to” person for material master data who will work with the business users to train and assist them with master data management
Assist in the creation of business rules to monitor the quality of the master database
Create dashboards to report master data quality on an ongoing and project basis
Create and own a data cleansing process
Work with the business to correct data errors found in the master data on an ongoing basis
Drive continuous improvement programmes to further enhance data quality by analysing data within the database, observing and monitoring processes and working with the business to identify improvements. Create projects where needed and work with relevant stakeholders to deliver the improvements
Work with other projects to expand the use of master data within the business, for example to CRM, sales and marketing
Work with the business to perform data cleanse activity to establish and maintain the master data sets
Key Requirements
1-2 years of previous material master data management experience in SAP
Excellent Microsoft Office suite skills (Excel – good to an advanced level)
Good data manipulation skills (for ex. in Business Intelligence or equivalent)
Data Profiling and Data Quality monitoring tool e.g. Infosphere preferred
Passionate about data and data quality
Able to understand and investigate topics related to multiple business areas
Analytically minded and a methodical problem solver
Good interpersonal skills with excellent customer service and a “can do” attitude
Process orientated
Able to efficiently prioritize work and timely inform stakeholders on the progress
Experience working with multiple countries/geographies
Experience of Working within a GBS environment preferred
Our ambitions will bring the very best out in you. You’ll be pushed to
aim higher and really own your work. You’ll be encouraged and
supported to make things happen, too. It can be challenging. But, as
the progress you make will help improve the lives of millions, it’ll be
worth it.
This is stepping up to a challenge.
This is work that’ll move you.
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