Master Data Manager

Sanofi; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanofi in Hyderabad is seeking a Master Data Manager to secure MD quality and ensure availability across sites. You will lead a team, establish governance, and drive continuous improvement in data standards and processes.

The role requires experience in MD governance, SAP ERP systems (ECC 6.0/S/4HANA MM/MDG), and strong collaboration with business stakeholders to support site projects and data initiatives.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience leading teams in Master Data Management, preferably in pharma (GxP)
• Strong knowledge of MD governance frameworks and data quality
• Experience with SAP ERP, ECC 6.0, S/4HANA MM & MDG modules; English proficiency
• Ability to drive continuous improvement and stakeholder alignment

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate the MD team to deliver data quality improvements
• Represent the team to leads and ensure governance mechanisms are effective
• Coordinate MD data collection, enrichment, and end-to-end maintenance processes
• Monitor SLAs for MD creation/modification/deactivation and drive KPIs
• Provide input for training, documentation, and knowledge management

Skills

Team leadership

Master Data Mgmt

Data governance

English proficiency

Pharma industry

Tools

SAP ERP

ECC 6.0

S/4HANA

MDG modules

Job description

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 Pursue progress, discover extraordinary Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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