MDM Lead

Apex Systems; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESPP

401K

HSA

Career coaching

Job summary

Everforth Apex Systems is seeking a strategic Master Data leader to connect product, vendor, and related data into a cohesive enterprise plan enabling SAP readiness. You will translate future SAP capabilities into data, governance, integration, and system requirements across MDM, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Finance, and Technology teams.

The role drives timely decisions, resolves dependencies, and establishes a trusted data foundation for business operations, including overseeing transitions to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, technology, data management, supply chain, or a related field.
• 6+ years of master data management, enterprise systems, product or vendor data, business transformation, or process design.
• 3+ years leading cross-functional teams and enterprise delivery outcomes.
• Experience translating business processes and SAP/ERP design decisions into data requirements.

Responsibilities

• Connect cross-domain data requirements across master data, product, vendor, and downstream systems.
• Prioritize enhancements to Product MDM, Vendor MDM, SAP, and integrations.
• Lead cross-functional alignment with SAP workstreams and translate needs into requirements.
• Define future-state ownership across MDM platforms, SAP, and integrations.
• Ensure designs align with business outcomes, controls, and implementation backlogs.
• Manage end-to-end dependency risks and governance decisions across data workstreams.

Skills

Executive communication

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in business or related field

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Stibo Systems

Data integration platforms

Job description

Primary Purpose

Strategic, cross-functional role accountable for connecting product, vendor, and related master data work into a cohesive enterprise plan that enables SAP readiness. This role translates future-state SAP capabilities and cross-workstream needs into clear data, process, governance, integration, and system requirements, ensuring master data solutions are fit for purpose across creation, maintenance, coexistence, and retirement. The manager serves as a primary conduit across Master Data, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Finance, Technology, and other SAP workstreams to drive timely decisions, resolve dependencies, and establish a trusted data foundation for business operations.

Job #3055432

Job ID: 3055432

Job Description

Strategic, cross-functional role accountable for connecting product, vendor, and related master data work into a cohesive enterprise plan that enables SAP readiness. This role translates future-state SAP capabilities and cross-workstream needs into clear data, process, governance, integration, and system requirements, ensuring master data solutions are fit for purpose across creation, maintenance, coexistence, and retirement. The manager serves as a primary conduit across Master Data, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Finance, Technology, and other SAP workstreams to drive timely decisions, resolve dependencies, and establish a trusted data foundation for business operations.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Connects product, vendor, location, and intersecting data requirements across business processes, systems, integrations, and downstream consumers. Partner with MDM Strategy and Technology teams to prioritize enhancements to Product MDM, Vendor MDM, SAP, and supporting integrations, balancing SAP requirements with broader enterprise simplification, scalability, and long-term business value.
• Lead cross-functional alignment with SAP workstreams, including Supply Chain, Finance, Merchandising and Sourcing, Architecture, Integration, Reporting, and Organizational Readiness, to identify and translate net-new master data needs into clear, actionable requirements.
• Works directly with Product and Vendor MDM teams to drive for clarity on future-state division of responsibility across MDM platforms, SAP, integration layers, including attribute ownership, system of record, point of entry, enrichment, synchronization, and lifecycle controls.
• Ensure product and vendor master data designs are fit for purpose by connecting business outcomes to process flows, key design decisions, fit-gap assessments, controls, reporting needs, testing criteria, and implementation backlogs.
• Drive end-to-end dependency management across Master Data and adjacent workstreams, proactively identifying gaps, conflicting assumptions, sequencing risks, and downstream impacts and facilitating decisions through the appropriate governance forums.
• Supports readiness for interim and coexistence states, ensuring vendor and item data, identifiers, mappings, integrations, and operating processes maintain business continuity while enabling transition to the SAP target state.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, technology, data management, supply chain, finance, operations, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of progressive experience in master data management, enterprise systems, product or vendor data, business transformation, or process design.
• 3+ years of people leadership or demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams, complex workstreams, and enterprise delivery outcomes.
• Experience translating business processes and SAP or ERP design decisions into data requirements, system capabilities, integrations, controls, and operational readiness plans.
• Strong understanding of master data governance, data quality, system-of-record principles, attribute ownership, data lifecycle management, and integration dependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to connect requirements across business domains such as Merchandising, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, Reporting, and Technology.
• Experience with requirements management, fit-gap analysis, process mapping, data mapping, user acceptance testing, and implementation planning.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to create clarity from complex and sometimes competing inputs.
• Strategic and analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills, sound judgment, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic transformation environment.
• Proven change leadership skills, including stakeholder alignment, operating-model transition, adoption planning, and the ability to drive accountability through ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Partner, product or material master, vendor or supplier master, and purchasing or finance data constructs.
• Experience with enterprise MDM platforms such as Stibo Systems and with data integration or distribution platforms.
• Experience supporting a large-scale ERP transformation, blueprint, design, migration, coexistence, or deployment program.
• Knowledge of retail, grocery, merchandising, procurement, replenishment, or finance master data processes.
• Lean/Six Sigma, PROSCI, data governance, product management, or related certification.
• Master's degree preferred.

Benefits

• Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our "Welcome Packet" as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

Accommodation Request

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