Lead, Master Data Management

Sanofi; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 8,00,000 - 12,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A global pharmaceutical company based in Hyderabad is looking for a Master Data Management Team Leader. You will be responsible for ensuring the quality and availability of master data while leading teams in various data activities. The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years of team leadership experience in Master Data Management, particularly in the pharma industry, and possess strong technical skills with SAP ERP. Good English communication is essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years as team leader in Master Data Management with knowledge of the pharma industry (e.g., GxP).
• Strong understanding of Master Data Management and data governance frameworks.
• Good communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Secure master data (MD) quality and availability at Sanofi.
• Lead teams performing MD activities and ensure data standards.
• Monitor SLA of MD processes and support development of KPIs.

Skills

Team leadership

Collaboration

Data governance

Continuous improvement

Education

Educational background in supply chain mgmt. / logistics

Tools

SAP ERP (ECC 6.0, S/4H, MM & MDG modules)

Job description

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 in business operations leadership meetings as well as projects (on demand)
• 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 leads to improve teams performance 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 second level of escalation for your teams
• Liaise with key business stakeholders (e.g. Business Process / System Owner)
• Lead teams 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:

• Experience: Minimum 5 years as team leader in Master Data Management with knowledge of pharma industry (e.g., GxP).
• Technical & Soft skills: Strong understanding of Master Data Management and data governance frameworks. Work experience with SAP ERP (ECC 6.0, S/4H, MM & MDG modules).
• Education: educational background in supply chain mgmt. / logistics.
• Languages: Good Communication in English.