Product Data Enablement Lead — Governance & Delivery

Hillman Group; Forest Park (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Hillman Group is seeking a Manager, Product Data Enablement to lead the centralized item setup capability within Data Governance. You will own the end-to-end intake and stage-gate workflow, coordinating with Product, Data Stewardship, and Data Quality to ensure governed item creation and release.

You will drive improvements, establish governance, and build scalable processes for data readiness, while maintaining business ownership of product decisions and source information.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field required.
• At least 5 years of experience in product data, master data, item setup, data governance, product operations, supply chain, or a related discipline required.
• At least 2 years of experience leading people, workstreams, or an operational team required; direct people-management experience preferred.
• Experience designing or managing cross-functional workflows, controls, service levels, performance measures, and issue-escalation processes required.
• Experience with Oracle Fusion Product Data Hub, another product information or master data management platform, or enterprise ERP item-master processes preferred.
• Experience operating in a centralized or shared-services environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the Product Data Enablement team responsible for centralized item setup coordination and execution.
• Own the centralized intake channel and end-to-end item setup workflow from approved request through data-ready handoff and release.
• Establish team priorities, workload allocation, service expectations, escalation paths, and operating routines that support predictable delivery.
• Coordinate Product, supplier, customs, packaging, logistics, pricing, and other functional contributors to obtain required item information.
• Define, implement, and enforce stage-gate criteria for intake, data collection, standards validation, item creation, and readiness for business use.
• Ensure required attributes are complete, product data standards and controls are met, and requests are certified as ready before governed record creation.
• Partner with Data Stewardship to support accurate item creation and maintenance in Oracle Fusion Product Data Hub and controlled publication to downstream systems.
• Partner with Data Quality to monitor defects, identify recurring issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective improvements to standards and workflows.
• Maintain clear governance and decision rights so business teams retain accountability for product strategy, commercialization decisions, priorities, approvals, and source data.
• Develop and maintain procedures, intake forms, job aids, controls, dashboards, service measures, and performance reporting for the item setup capability.
• Provide transparent status, risk, capacity, service, and issue reporting to Data Governance leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardization, automation, and scalability to support Oracle Fusion expansion, acquisitions, and product-line growth.
• Champion a service-oriented and accountable culture focused on quality, speed, consistency, safety, and reusable enterprise data.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

People leadership

Process ownership

Data governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business / Supply Chain / Information Systems

Tools

Oracle Fusion Product Data Hub (PDH)

Job description

Hillman Group is seeking a Manager, Product Data Enablement to lead the centralized item setup capability within Data Governance. You will own the end-to-end intake and stage-gate workflow, coordinating with Product, Data Stewardship, and Data Quality to ensure governed item creation and release.

You will drive improvements, establish governance, and build scalable processes for data readiness, while maintaining business ownership of product decisions and source information.