cPLM Data & Deployment Scientist – External Manufacturing

Mars; Oud-Beijerland; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars is delivering a global Product Lifecycle Management transformation program (cPLM) to replace our existing process and system used to capture and evolve knowledge about our products. This role serves as the critical functional bridge between global External Manufacturing and the cPLM team, ensuring data integrity for external manufacturing recipes before and during deployments.

You will work with FN scope leads and cross-functional teams, collaborating with external partners to enable

Responsibilities

• Participate in discovery workshops with External Manufacturing, Commercial, Product Development and other functions.
• Provide Day-to-Day Functional Support to External Manufacturing, Commercial leads, and external supplier technical contacts.
• Triage and resolve user inquiries from external and internal co-manufacturing stakeholders, coordinating with technical teams for bug resolution.
• Coordinate deployment readiness, ensuring legacy data cleansing, access setup, and onboarding before go-live.
• Audit legacy data readiness, identify missing or non-compliant attributes prior to cPLM migration.
• Remediate data gaps and enrich external specs with missing technical parameters for ingestion.
• Enforce naming, classification, and taxonomy standards across external supplier records.
• Validate BOMs and specifications in test environments and support UAT for external scenarios.
• Support pilot deployments and future site deployments with reusable templates and checklists.
• Drive process and interface optimizations by analyzing ticket trends and onboarding bottlenecks.
• Design and deliver targeted partner training and lead on-site or virtual hypercare during deployments.
• Prepare stakeholder communications with concise, impact-oriented summaries for leadership.

Job description

Mars is delivering a global Product Lifecycle Management transformation program (cPLM) to replace our existing process and system used to capture and evolve knowledge about our products. This role serves as the critical functional bridge between global External Manufacturing and the cPLM team, ensuring data integrity for external manufacturing recipes before and during deployments.

You will work with FN scope leads and cross-functional teams, collaborating with external partners to enable