Manager, Master Data Management

About the role

The Manager Master Data Management defines, governs and maintains master data assets for Innovative Medicine Quality Management & Digital, ensuring accuracy, consistency, integrity and compliance across business processes and digital platforms. The role bridges business functions and technology teams, establishes a governance framework and drives master data quality initiatives so that data supports operations, analytics, regulatory compliance and decision-making. It covers product, supplier, equipment, organization and reference data domains.

Key responsibilities

• Define and implement the IM QM&D MDM strategy and roadmap, and establish data governance processes, standards, policies and controls
• Define ownership and stewardship for master data domains, chair governance forums and align with enterprise data governance frameworks
• Monitor and clean data sets, define quality metrics and dashboards, and lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions
• Manage the lifecycle of master data, including creation, validation, approval, synchronization, maintenance, cleansing, deduplication and harmonization
• Partner with business and technology teams, train users and act as escalation point for data issues
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies, regulatory requirements and data privacy standards, support audits and promote DAMA-DMBOK, ISO 8000, GDPR and GxP where applicable
• Explore automation, evaluate MDM tools and track metrics showing data maturity
• Lead and mentor data stewards and business SMEs, influence senior stakeholders and drive enterprise-wide adoption of data standards

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering or a related field; Master's degree preferred
• Proven ability in data management, master data management or data governance, with demonstrated experience implementing MDM programs
• Experience handling multi-functional stakeholders in global organizations and with data warehouse and cloud data platforms
• Leadership, strategic thinking, strong analytical and communication skills, and a continuous improvement attitude

Required skills

• MDM platforms such as SAP MDG, Informatica MDM, Reltio or Profisee
• Data governance and metadata platforms such as Collibra or Alation
• Data quality tools, SQL and data modeling
• Knowledge of data integration, APIs and cloud platforms
• Reporting and visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau

What we offer

• Base pay range of EUR 81,400 to EUR 140,530
• Annual bonus and/or sales commissions depending on pay grade and location
• Vacation days, parental leave of at least 12 weeks, bereavement, caregiver and volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement and health programs
• Service anniversary and recognition awards, and insurance plans for eligible employees and dependents