Master Data Manager

Job Title: Master Data Manager

• Hiring Manager: Team Lead Master Data Management
• Location: Hyderabad
• Job Type: Permanent

About the job 

Job purpose

• Secure master data (MD) quality and availability at the Sanofi target 
• Support master data quality improvement activities across all sites in the frame of M&S master data playbook 

• Identify any master data quality and availability issues and propose solutions and remediation (continuous improvement spirit) 

Key accountabilities

• Represent your teams and report to respective leads  
• Collect and raise continuous improvement (CI) measures to improve collaboration between business operations and business stakeholders, prepare relevant materials to obtain senior leadership buy-in 

• Understand and put in place effective governance mechanism
• Regular performance reviews of team 
• To motivate team members to improve everyday 

• To ensure required skills of team members and increase retention rate 

• Identify and leverage synergies across the different teams within MD business operations 

• Be the first level of escalation for your team  

• Liaise with key business stakeholders (e.g. Business Process / System Owner) 

• Lead a team performing the following MD activities:  

• Ensuring data standards and data quality targets are met, suggest business rules based on recurring data issues 

• Coordinating MD collection to ensure efficient e2e data maintenance processes and preparing MD extraction to support business meeting (e.g., capability review) 

• Checking single / mass MD requests and performing data enrichments 

• Driving continuous improvement by identifying and raising initiatives to respective team lead 

• Supporting MD evolution, projects, and improvement initiatives, including cleansing initiatives and migrations 

• Providing input for documentation, training materials, and knowledge management  

• Maintaining MD user authorizations per system and role 

• Supporting MD community on site level, incl. data content owner/ MD users and conduct impact analyses for upcoming site project 

• Contributing to the education of the MD community  

• Monitoring the SLA of the MD creation / modification/ deactivation processes, and supporting the development of KPIs, data quality dashboards and scorecards 

About you  

Preferred Skills/Expertise/Experience:

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years as team leader in Master Data Management with knowledge of pharma industry (e.g., GxP) 

• Work experience / educational background in supply chain mgmt. / logistics 

Skills/Expertise:

• Strong understanding of Master Data Management and data governance frameworks  

• Work experience with SAP ERP (ECC 6.0, S/4H, MM & MDG modules) 

• Mandatory English, preferably languages for key markets (French, Spanish)​ 

Competency requirements:

• Lead and motivate the team to get better everyday 

• Be a good communicator and leader to resolve ad-hoc issues 

• Strong willingness to learn 

Sanofi values

• Stretch to go beyond the level we have operated at up until now 

• Act in the interest of our patients and customers  

• Take action instead of waiting to be told what to do  

• Put the interests of the organization ahead of my own or those of our team