M&A Data Coordination Lead

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA seeks an experienced M&A Data Coordination Lead in Pittsburgh to orchestrate data requirements across site separation initiatives, ERP systems, and manufacturing applications. You will align data readiness, governance, and migration activities with program timelines.

The role emphasizes coordinating across site project managers, application workstreams, and manufacturing stakeholders while ensuring data quality and validation. Strong governance and communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT, CS, Engineering, or related field; strong data-management exposure.
• 5–8+ years in project management/PMO or tech delivery.
• 3+ years supporting data-related projects, migrations, or technology-transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate end-to-end data requirements for site separation initiatives.
• Serve as primary data coordination point across sites, apps, and manufacturing systems.
• Collaborate with Site PMs to understand data requirements, timelines, risks.

Skills

M&A Data Coordination

Site Separation

Data Requirements Management

Data Readiness

Data Migration Coordination

Data Quality

Data Standards

Data Validation

Data Governance

Application Migration

Project Management

PMO Coordination

Integrated Project Planning

Dependency Management

RAID Management

Cutover Coordination

Stakeholder Management

Cross-Functional Coordination

Executive / Program Status Reporting

Action Tracking

Business Readiness

Project Management Tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, Data Management, or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Planview

Jira

Azure DevOps

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Teams

SharePoint

Job description

Company Overview

Req ID: 387610

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us.

NTT DATA's Client is seeking a M&A Data Coordination Lead to join their team in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US-PA), United States (US). REMOTE to coordinate and manage data requirements across multiple site separation initiatives and manufacturing application workstreams.

This role will serve as the central coordination point for identifying, tracking, validating, and managing data needs by site. The M&A Data Coordination Lead will work closely with Site Project Managers, Application Workstreams, Manufacturing stakeholders, business teams, and technical teams to ensure that required data is identified, prepared, validated, transferred, and available according to program timelines and established data standards.

The ideal candidate is a mid-senior level Project Manager / Project Coordinator with experience supporting data-related projects, application migrations, system transitions, or M&A separation initiatives. This position does not require a deep technical data engineering background; however, the candidate should have a strong understanding of data coordination, data readiness, data quality, project governance, dependency tracking, and stakeholder management.

The role will support multiple sites simultaneously and ensure that data-related activities are effectively integrated into each site's overall separation and cutover plan.

Key Responsibilities

M&A Data Coordination

• Coordinate end-to-end data requirements for all site separation initiatives.
• Serve as the primary coordination point for data-related activities across sites, applications, and manufacturing systems.
• Work closely with Site Project Managers to understand site-specific data requirements, timelines, dependencies, and risks.
• Maintain visibility into data requirements and readiness across multiple site separation projects.
• Ensure data activities are incorporated into overall site separation schedules and cutover plans.
• Coordinate activities across geographically distributed project and technical teams.

Site-Level Data Planning

• Enterprise applications
• Manufacturing applications
• ERP systems
• Business applications
• Operational technology applications, where applicable
• Historical and transactional data
• Master data
• Reporting and analytics requirements
• Data migration activities
• Data retention and archival requirements
• Data extracts and transfers
• Business validation
• Develop and maintain a consolidated view of data needs by site and application.

Application & Manufacturing Data Coordination

• Application Workstream Leads
• Manufacturing Application Teams
• Site Project Managers
• Manufacturing stakeholders
• Business Process Owners
• ERP teams
• Data migration teams
• Infrastructure teams
• Integration teams
• Enterprise Data teams

Data Requirements Management

• Data requirements
• Source systems
• Target systems
• Data owners
• Business owners
• Application owners
• Migration approach
• Data dependencies
• Delivery dates
• Validation status
• Readiness status
• Outstanding actions
• Risks and issues

Data Standards & Quality Coordination

• Data completeness
• Data quality
• Data consistency
• Required data formats
• Data mapping requirements
• Data ownership
• Naming conventions
• Data governance requirements
• Security and access requirements
• Retention requirements

Data Readiness & Cutover Support

• Data extraction readiness
• Data cleansing activities
• Data conversion preparation
• Data migration activities
• Data validation
• Business verification
• Reconciliation
• Cutover data loads
• Post-migration validation
• Data-related hypercare issues

Integrated Planning & Dependency Management

• Milestones
• Deliverables
• Dependencies
• Critical dates
• Application readiness
• Manufacturing system readiness
• Data migration readiness
• Business validation
• Cutover dependencies

RAID Management

• Risks
• Assumptions
• Issues
• Dependencies
• Decisions
• Examples may include:
• Missing or incomplete data requirements
• Data quality concerns
• Unclear data ownership
• Application migration dependencies
• Resource constraints
• Delayed extracts
• Delayed business validation
• Data-standard compliance issues
• Conflicting cutover timelines

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Site Project Management
• M&A Program Management
• Application Workstreams
• Manufacturing Operations
• Manufacturing IT / OT
• Enterprise Applications
• ERP Teams
• Data Migration Teams
• Data Governance
• Infrastructure
• Integration Teams
• Information Security
• Business Process Owners
• PMO
• Vendors and implementation partners

Governance & Status Reporting

• Data readiness by site
• Data readiness by application
• Key milestones
• Open actions
• Risks and issues
• Dependencies
• Data-quality concerns
• Upcoming cutover activities
• Decisions requiring escalation

Participate in:

• Site PM meetings
• Application workstream meetings
• Data coordination meetings
• M&A program governance meetings
• Readiness reviews
• Cutover planning sessions
• Go/No-Go meetings
• Hypercare meetings

Stakeholder & Communication Management

• Facilitating data requirement discussions
• Clarifying roles and ownership
• Driving action-item closure
• Coordinating across multiple workstreams
• Managing stakeholder expectations
• Communicating upcoming milestones and dependencies
• Escalating unresolved issues
• Ensuring teams remain aligned to program timelines

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, Data Management, or a related discipline.
• 5–8+ years of overall project management, project coordination, PMO, or technology delivery experience.
• 3+ years supporting data-related projects, application implementations, migrations, or technology-transformation initiatives.
• Experience coordinating activities across multiple projects or sites.
• Demonstrated experience working with:
• Project Managers
• Application teams
• Business stakeholders
• Manufacturing stakeholders
• Technical teams
• Strong experience with:
• Project planning
• Requirements tracking
• Dependency management
• RAID management
• Status reporting
• Action tracking
• Stakeholder coordination
• Experience coordinating data requirements, data migration, data readiness, data validation, or data-quality activities.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Ability to drive follow-up and accountability across cross-functional teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced M&A or enterprise transformation environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience supporting M&A integration, divestiture, carve-out, site separation, or technology transition programs.
• 5+ years of experience working with manufacturing sites and manufacturing applications.
• 5+ years of previous experience as a Project Manager, Junior Project Manager, PMO Analyst, Data Project Coordinator, or Data Migration Coordinator.
• Experience coordinating data migration or application migration projects.
• Understanding of:
• Master data
• Transactional data
• Data extraction
• Data cleansing
• Data migration
• Data validation
• Data reconciliation
• Data governance
• Experience supporting ERP or enterprise application programs involving platforms such as SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar systems.
• Experience in Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Biotechnology, or other regulated industries.
• Familiarity with enterprise PMO governance practices.
• PMP, CAPM, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent certification is a plus.

Key Skills

• M&A Data Coordination
• Site Separation
• Data Requirements Management
• Manufacturing Applications
• Data Readiness
• Data Migration Coordination
• Data Quality
• Data Standards
• Data Validation
• Data Governance
• Application Migration
• Project Management
• PMO Coordination
• Integrated Project Planning
• Dependency Management
• RAID Management
• Cutover Coordination
• Stakeholder Management
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Executive / Program Status Reporting
• Action Tracking
• Business Readiness
• Project Management Tools

Experience with one or more of the following is preferred:

• Microsoft Project
• Smartsheet
• Planview
• Jira
• Azure DevOps
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Teams
• SharePoint

Preferred Industry Experience

• Manufacturing
• Life Sciences
• Pharmaceuticals
• Medical Devices
• Healthcare
• Biotechnology
• Regulated Industries
• Enterprise IT Transformation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Divestiture / Carve-Out Programs
• Site Separation Programs

Role Profile

This position is best suited for a mid-senior level PM / Data Project Coordinator who is highly organized and comfortable coordinating many moving parts across multiple sites. The primary focus is coordination and governance of data activities rather than hands-on data engineering or development.

The successful candidate will ensure that every site's data needs are clearly identified, assigned, tracked, validated, and delivered in alignment with application and site-separation timelines.

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long term success. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure and connectivity. We are one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. Visit us at us.nttdata.com

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