Team Lead / Deputy Manager – MDM & PLM (F/M/D)

EagleBurgmann; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Personal Development

Paid Holidays

Diversity & Inclusion

Sustainability & Social Commitment

Job summary

EagleBurgmann KE Pvt. Ltd. in Chennai seeks an experienced Team Lead / Deputy Manager for PLM and MDM to guide a global IT Shared Services team. You will shape strategy, govern delivery, and ensure data integrity across PLM and MDM platforms while bridging engineering processes with IT solutions.

The role requires strong people leadership, hands-on data management expertise, and a track record of delivering large-scale enterprise implementations with SAP integrations and CAD tool workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering with 12+ years of relevant experience.
• 7–10 years in Data management or enterprise PLM systems, with 3–5 years of people leadership.
• Hands-on experience managing and scaling Enterprise MDM (SAP) and PLM environments; familiarity with CAD tools integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and support teams across MDM and PLM; ensure clear goals and balanced workloads.
• Oversee architecture, configuration, and maintenance of PLM and MDM platforms; drive system upgrade projects.
• Provide strategic guidance on data migration, integration workflows (e.g., SAP, legacy systems), and CAD tool integrations.
• Establish delivery governance; align stakeholders and ensure measurable business outcomes.

Skills

Enterprise MDM

PLM systems

SAP integration

Solid Edge CAD

Teamcenter

Data governance

SDLC

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Dashboard reporting

Education

Bachelor of Engineering

Tools

Siemens Solid Edge

Siemens Teamcenter

Job description

Working at Freudenberg: "We will wow your world!" This is our promise. As a global technology group, we not only make the world cleaner, healthier and more comfortable, but also offer our 52,000 employees a networked and diverse environment where everyone can thrive individually. Be surprised and experience your own wow moments.
EagleBurgmann is a leading international specialist in industrial sealing technology. We combine innovative technologies, digital solutions and our passion to create sophisticated and reliable sealing systems. Our products help make entire industries safer and more sustainable.

Some of your Benefits

• Health Insurance: Rely on comprehensive services whenever you need it.
• Personal Development: We offer a variety of trainings to ensure you can develop in your career.
• Paid Holidays: With paid-time off, local holidays are all the way more relaxing.
• Diversity & Inclusion: We focus on providing an inclusive environment and recognize our diversity contributes to our success.
• Sustainability & Social Commitment: We support social and sustainable projects and encourage employee involvement.

Chennai
On-Site
EagleBurgmann KE Pvt. Ltd.

We are seeking an experienced Team Lead / Deputy Manager for PLM & MDM, to spearhead the IT Shared Services team across MDM and PLM. This role will be responsible for managing, upgrading, and optimizing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Master Data Management (MDM) platforms. You will bridge the gap between complex engineering processes and IT solutions, ensuring high data integrity, seamless system integration and development, and robust support for global business units. This role demands strong people management with blend of strong technical governance and project management. The successful candidate must demonstrate strong people leadership, with the ability to set direction, coach team members, plan workloads, and ensure delivery governance across both teams.

Responsibilities

• Leadership Responsibilities
• People Leadership & Operations
• Lead, coach, and support teams across MDM and PLM by ensuring clear goals, balanced workloads, strong collaboration, and continuous capability development.
• Enterprise System and 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 (e.g., 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.

The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.