Manager, Master Data Management
Biopharma Asia
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Biopharma Asia is seeking a Manager Master Data Management to define and govern master data assets across IM QM&D. You will lead data quality initiatives, establish governance, and partner with business and IT to ensure data accuracy, integrity and regulatory compliance.
The role covers product, supplier, equipment, organization and reference data across geographies. You will chair governance forums, drive data standards, and implement dashboards to measure quality and timeliness, enabling
Qualifications
- Experience in data management, MDM, governance, or related disciplines.
- Experience implementing MDM programs and handling multi-functional stakeholders.
- Experience with data warehouse and cloud data platforms.
- Ability to define ownership, stewardship, and governance across domains.
Responsibilities
- Define and implement MDM strategy and governance roadmaps.
- Establish data governance policies, controls and ownership.
- Monitor data quality, establish dashboards and KPIs.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration between business and IT.
- Ensure compliance with DAMA-DMBOK, ISO 8000, GDPR, and GxP as applicable.
- Drive continuous improvement and automation of data processes.
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Allschwil, Switzerland, Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Zug, Switzerland
The Manager Master Data Management is responsible for defining, governing, and maintaining master data assets for Innovative Medicine Quality Management & Digital to ensure accuracy, consistency, integrity, and compliance across business processes and digital platforms. The role serves as the bridge between business functions and technology teams, establishing a governance framework, driving master data quality initiatives, and ensuring master data supports operational excellence, analytics, regulatory compliance, and business decision‑making.
The Manager Master Data Management provides leadership for master data domains, including product, suppliers, equipment, organizations, and reference data, while enabling business stakeholders to maximize the value of IM data assets. This role aligns data standards, processes, and governance practices across functions and geographies to create a trusted source of truth.
- Define and implement IM QM&D Master Data Management (MDM) strategy and roadmap.
- Establish and maintain data governance processes, standards, policies, and controls.
- Define ownership, stewardship, and accountability for master data domains.
- Chair governance forums and facilitate decision-making on data standards and priorities.
- Ensure alignment with data governance frameworks and operating models at enterprise level in other organizations across Innovative Medicine.
- Monitor and clean data sets to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency across systems
- Define master data quality metrics, business rules, and monitoring processes in collaboration with the different stakeholders in IM Quality.
- Lead proactive identification, remediation, and prevention of master data quality issues.
- Establish master data quality dashboards and critical metrics.
- Drive root‑cause analysis and corrective actions for recurring data issues.
- Partner with business and technology teams to improve data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness.
- Be responsible for lifecycle management of master data from creation through retirement.
- Ensure effective methods for data creation, validation, approval, synchronization, and maintenance.
- Manage reference data and hierarchies across systems.
- Coordinate master data cleansing, deduplication, harmonization, and enrichment activities.
- Ensure seamless integration of master data across enterprise applications and analytical platforms.
- Collaborate with business process owners, functional leaders, data stewards, and IT teams to understand data requirements.
- Translate business needs into master data standards and governance solutions.
- Drive adoption of data management guidelines through training and organizational change activities.
- Act as the escalation point for master data issues and governance decisions.
- Ensure compliance with corporate policies, regulatory requirements, and data privacy standards.
- Support internal and external audits related to data governance and data integrity.
- Promote adherence to industry standards such as DAMA‑DMBOK, ISO 8000, GDPR, and GxP requirements where applicable.
- Maintain documentation, lineage, metadata, and auditability for key master data assets.
- Find opportunities for automation and process optimization.
- Evaluate and implement MDM tools and integration workflows.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to increase data maturity and business value.
- Develop and track critical metrics that demonstrate the effectiveness of master data management capabilities.
- Lead and mentor data stewards, business SMEs, and data management professionals.
- Develop a culture of data ownership, accountability, and quality.
- Influence senior stakeholders and obtain alignment across multiple business domains.
- Drive enterprise-wide adoption of data standards and governance practices.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Information Management, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Master's degree preferred.
- proven ability in data management, master data management, data governance, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated experience implementing MDM programs.
- Experience handling multi‑functional stakeholders in global organizations.
- Experience working with data warehouse, and cloud data platforms.
- Master Data Management platforms (SAP MDG, Informatica MDM, Reltio, Profisee, or equivalent).
- Data governance and metadata platforms (Collibra, Alation, etc.).
- Data quality management and profiling tools.
- SQL and data modeling knowledge.
- Understanding of data integration, APIs, and cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of reporting and visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
- Strategic thinking
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
- Communication and presentation excellence
- Business process understanding
- Continuous improvement attitude
AI Judgement Integration, Coaching, Compliance Management, Controls Compliance, Digital Assurance, Human-Computer Relationships, Performance Measurement, Process Improvements, Process Optimization, Quality Control (QC), Quality Standards, Quality Validation, Regulatory Compliance, Researching, Stakeholder Engagement, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Subject Matter Experts (SME) Collaboration, Technical Credibility
€81’400.00 - €140’530.00
In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well‑being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well‑being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.
*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.
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