Data Manager

Start date: asap / by arrangement
Planed Durration: 31.01.27 (big chance for extension)
Workload: 100%
Contract Type: Contracting
Location: Männedorf
Remote: Yes 1 day

Your Tasks:

• Coordinate end-to-end creation, change, extension, validation, blocking and retirement of material, customer and supplier master data.
• Define and improve global data standards, naming conventions, validation rules, duplicate controls, approval workflows and data quality measures with business owners.
• Govern material master and BOM readiness for engineering changes, product launches, plant
  extensions and production-line or manufacturing-site transfers.
• Coordinate plant-specific data for planning, procurement, production, inventory, quality, costing,
  logistics and trade-compliance dependencies.
• Coordinate customer and SAP Business Partner data, including sold-to, ship-to, bill-to and payer
  relationships, sales-area extensions, addresses, tax and finance attributes with accountable
  functions.
• Coordinate supplier and SAP Business Partner data, including purchasing-organization and
  company-code extensions, purchasing attributes, addresses and finance-related data with Procurement and Finance.
• Promote one consistent Business Partner identity per legal entity where appropriate, with governed roles, organizational extensions and duplicate prevention.
• Lead master data activities for ERP migration, S/4HANA deployments and site transfers: scoping,
  cleansing, mapping, validation, testing, cutover, reconciliation and stabilization.
• Align engineering and operational data across PLM/Windchill, SAP MDG, S/4HANA and other
  integrated applications.
• Coordinate Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, Finance, Quality, Trade
  Compliance, IT and local Data Managers to resolve data dependencies and risks.
• Monitor data quality KPIs, investigate root causes, implement corrective actions and report readiness, risks and progress.

Your Profile:

• At least 5 years of relevant SAP master data management experience in international manufacturing, including cross-functional coordination.
• Strong knowledge of SAP material master, BOMs and plant-specific MRP, procurement, production and logistics attributes.
• Practical knowledge of customer and supplier master data, SAP Business Partner roles,
  organizational extensions and approval controls.
• Experience with production or plant transfers, SAP migration, S/4HANA rollout or complex data
  readiness and cutover activities.
• Working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and/or ECC, SAP MDG workflows, validation and data quality processes.
• Ability to apply global standards while coordinating business-owned engineering, procurement, sales, finance and compliance data.
• Strong analytical, communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills; ability to manage priorities and escalate risks.
• Advanced Excel and data reconciliation skills; fluent professional English.

Nice to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering, information systems, supply chain, business or data management.
• Seven or more years of relevant experience, including global workstream leadership or process
  improvement.
• Hands-on experience with SAP MDG, S/4HANA transformation, data migration tools and automated data quality monitoring.
• Knowledge of Windchill/PLM, engineering change management, variant configuration and BOM
  integration.
• Cross-functional SAP SD, MM, PP, FI/CO, QM and GTS/international trade process knowledge.
• Experience in regulated manufacturing, medical technology and global multi-plant environments.
• Experience with Power BI, SQL, workflow design, automation or data governance certifications.
• German or other additional languages.