Deputy Manager - Digital Thread (PLM & MDM)

Freudenberg Filtration; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Freudenberg Filtration in Chennai seeks an experienced Enterprise Data Leader to drive MDM/PLM strategy, governance, and delivery. You will lead cross-functional teams, align IT and business stakeholders, and ensure scalable data solutions across SAP MDM and PLM integrations.

The role focuses on architecture, data migration, data quality, and KPI-driven outcomes, with a strong emphasis on SDLC, change controls, and enterprise architecture alignment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering with over 12 years of relevant experience.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration.
• Hands-on experience with Enterprise MDM (SAP) and PLM environments.
• Familiarity with CAD tools integration (Solid Edge) and Teamcenter.
• Solid understanding of data governance, SDLC, and change management.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and support MDM and PLM teams with clear goals and balanced workloads.
• Oversee architecture, configuration, and maintenance of enterprise PLM/MDM platforms.
• Coordinate delivery priorities, risks, timelines, and stakeholder expectations.
• Bridge business stakeholders, global IT teams, PMs, and tech teams to translate needs.
• Provide feedback, onboarding support, and career development.
• Establish and enforce delivery governance, quality reviews, and release readiness.
• Ensure implementations are scalable, secure, and aligned with standards.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Delivery governance

Data governance

Architecture leadership

SDLC

Education

Bachelor of Engineering

12+ years of relevant experience

Tools

SAP MDM

Siemens Solid Edge integration

Siemens Teamcenter

PLM systems

Job description

Leadership Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and support teams across MDM and PLM by ensuring clear goals, balanced workloads, strong collaboration, and continuous capability development.

Enterprise Data technical leadership

• Oversee the architecture, configuration, and maintenance of enterprise PLM and MDM platforms. Drive system upgrade projects, provide strategic guidance to data migration topics, Architect integration workflow topics (eg. SAP, Legacy systems, etc,) and CAD tools.

Delivery steering across MDM and PLM teams

• Coordinate delivery priorities, dependencies, risks, timelines, and stakeholder expectations across multiple technology areas while ensuring predictable execution and measurable business outcomes.

Stakeholder and business alignment

• Act as a bridge between business stakeholders, global IT teams, project managers, product owners, and technical teams to translate business needs into feasible, scalable, and value-driven digital solutions.

Performance development and capability building

• Provide structured feedback, mentoring, onboarding support, skill development plans, and career guidance to strengthen both technical and behavioural capabilities within the team.

Delivery and governance

• Establish and enforce delivery governance across PLM and MDM teams, including quality reviews, documentation standards, solution validation, release readiness, risk tracking, and operational handover.
• Ensure that implementations are business-focused, technically sound, scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture, data governance, and platform standards.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Engineering (any discipline) with 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in Data management or enterprise PLM systems, with at least 3-5 years in a formal people leadership or team management role.
• Technical Expertise: Proven, hands-on experience in managing and scaling Enterprise MDM platforms (SAP) and PLM environments. Familiarity with the integration of CAD authoring tools-specifically Siemens Solid Edge-with downstream PLM backbones (eg, Siemens Teamcenter Integration for Solid Edge ) is highly preferred
• Strong hands-on experience in solution implementation, including data analysis, data cleansing, dashboard/report development, data integration concepts, KPI definition, testing, performance improvement, and stakeholder sign-off.
• The candidate should possess solid understanding of data governance frameworks, software development lifecycles (SDLC), and change management controls within a traditional corporate environment.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to manage priorities, resolve conflicts, influence global stakeholders, guide technical discussions, and build a high-performing team culture.

Structure and consistency

• Facilitate workshops, technical discussions, and requirement clarification sessions to identify business problems, define measurable KPIs, evaluate solution options, and align teams on practical implementation approaches.
• Promote consistency, reuse, automation, documentation, and standard delivery practices across MDM and PLM teams while ensuring that solutions deliver visible business value.

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