Senior Product Data Lead — Global Projects & Governance

Schneider Electric Corp; Monterrey; On-site; MXN 3,143,000 - 4,715,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Life insurance

20 days paid time off

12 holidays per year

401(k) + match

Job summary

Schneider Electric is seeking a Product Data Management Senior Project Manager to lead complex product data, master data, and business process initiatives from strategy through delivery. You will ensure alignment across scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, and stakeholders, working with regional and global teams to improve data quality, governance, and process effectiveness.

The role requires expertise in PDM, governance, and cross‑functional leadership, with a focus on delivering measurable

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of Engineering Product Data Management, Product Data Management, Master Data, and related business processes.
• Ability to lead highly complex, cross-functional initiatives involving regional and global stakeholders.
• Strong project leadership capabilities across scope, schedule, budget, risk, issue, dependency, quality and change management.
• Ability to interpret and analyse complex information, clarify ambiguity and develop practical recommendations and solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to align business and technology teams around shared outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex Product Data Management, Master Data, and business process initiatives from definition through implementation and stabilization.
• Translate strategic objectives and business needs into clear project scope, objectives, deliverables, success criteria, and actionable execution plans.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, dependencies, and governance routines.
• Provide functional leadership to regional and global cross‑functional teams and ensure alignment across business stakeholders, IT teams, project teams, and external partners.
• Monitor project progress, performance, risks, issues, decisions, and interdependencies, and provide clear, timely updates to stakeholders and leadership.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate complex risks and issues; develop recommendations and solutions when requirements, ownership, or direction are ambiguous.
• Manage scope and project changes through established governance and change control processes.
• Drive product data quality, standardization, governance, and process improvement across Engineering, PDM, and Master Data domains.
• Partner with Product Owners, Developers, and business stakeholders to define and prioritize requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure alignment between business requirements, solution design, project deliverables, organizational policies, governance requirements, and strategic objectives.
• Lead solution validation and User Acceptance Testing activities, including planning, execution, issue resolution, readiness assessment and final sign‑off.
• Coordinate communication and change management activities to support successful deployment, business readiness and user adoption across the NAM region.
• Facilitate workshops, governance meetings, decision forums and stakeholder communications to clarify complex information and drive timely decisions.
• Manage project costs and budgets to meet financial targets, and coordinate vendors, consultants, and external partners as required.
• Drive continuous improvement in Product Data Management practices, business processes, project delivery methods and governance disciplines.

Skills

PDM expertise

Cross-functional leadership

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Ambiguity resolution

Governance & change

Organizational judgement

Data governance

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Engineering, Information Technology or related field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Azure DevOps

Jira

Asana

Smartsheet

Job description

Schneider Electric is seeking a Product Data Management Senior Project Manager to lead complex product data, master data, and business process initiatives from strategy through delivery. You will ensure alignment across scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, and stakeholders, working with regional and global teams to improve data quality, governance, and process effectiveness.

The role requires expertise in PDM, governance, and cross‑functional leadership, with a focus on delivering measurable