Master Data Business Process Manager

An excellent opportunity to join a large infrastructure company in their Central London UK head office as a Master Data Business Process Manager.

Main purpose of the role

Supporting the Global Process Owners in driving process standardisation, integration and efficiency within data management through:

• Implementation, and development of the Business Processes in Master Data Management in Procurement and Engineering, driving process adoption and compliance
• Provide detailed functional and technical expertise on Procurement Data and Procurement and Engineering Master Data and support the business with queries and issues related to Transactional and Master Data.
• Supporting and delivering procurement data management and improvement initiatives and projects across Procurement and Engineering
• Working closely with the key stakeholders across the company, in particular the Procurement Global Solution Owner to promote end-to-end business process management

Direct responsibilities

• Support and monitors the implementation of the Procurement Policy and Processes at the business / country level
  • Oversee implementation of the local (business-level) action plans to improve structure and quality of master data
  • Support the businesses in the design of developments to their procurement systems and master data
  • Supports the Heads of Procurement and of Engineering Processes and Systems through consultation on the specific business process consequences of the change requests applicable to Business Processes under their responsibility.
• Improve quality of data across procurement and engineering, in particular master data
  • Analyse data to provide insights into data
  • Design and implement data quality measures (KPIs) jointly with the Master Data GPO and develop master data related reporting
  • use the insights from the KPIs to structure and lead data harmonisation and cleansing projects
  • drive data management projects process changes to improve consistency, completeness and usefulness of data content and structure.
• Support the SAP S4 HANA implementation as necessary
  • Support maintenance of the Business Process documentation for Procurement and Engineering Master Data
  • Contribute to the process and solution design decisions through technical expertise and detailed data analysis
  • Contribute to the development of the Operational Model and the systems solution for the Group Master Data Management centre
• Collaborates with other Procurement, Engineering and Finance GPOs and the business to drive overall data and process quality improvements

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• Functional and technical expertise in the relevant Procurement and Engineering Business Processes, ideally gained in a similar process management role
• Practical expertise with Master Data gained whilst working with a major ERP (ideally SAP R3K or S4 HANA);
• Good understanding of a typical Source to Pay process and role of Vendor, Contract, Material master data in its quality and performance
• Data analysis and manipulation, including advanced Excel usage
• Business Process Management experience evidenced through working with process owners of a data management function
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills, in particular in the context of Project Management, Stakeholder engagement and Business Process Documentation. Concise, structured, thought through communication is a key success factor for this role

Advantage

• Experience working in an international environment and in SSC context, ideally gained whilst working for one of the major Business Process Outsourcing providers
• Project and Change Management experience

Please contact james.thompson@markssattin.com for further discussion