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