Product Data Steward - Hybrid, Master Data & NPI

GCG; Collegeville (PA); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

GCG is seeking a Product Data Steward to join Allied Wire & Cable’s connectivity & power solutions product management team. You will maintain and improve product master data across ERP, CRM, and related platforms, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and usability for sales and operations.

This role focuses on day-to-day data maintenance, governance, and contributions to NPI efforts, collaborating with cross-functional teams and using Excel, SQL, and BI tools.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of experience working with data quality, master data, product information, data maintenance, or a related discipline.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to identify inconsistencies, errors, and gaps within large sets of product or business data.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and the ability to organize, analyze, compare, and validate data efficiently.
• Foundational knowledge of SQL and Power BI.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled tools and an interest in using technology to improve data management, analysis, or business processes.
• Ability to investigate data abnormalities, identify their underlying cause, and work toward an effective resolution.
• Ability to maintain accurate information across multiple interconnected business systems.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills, including the ability to balance routine data requests with larger projects and changing business priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively with colleagues across technical and non-technical functions.
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, develop practical solutions, and follow work through to completion.
• Collaborative approach and demonstrated ability to build productive working relationships across multiple departments.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment where processes, systems, and business needs may continue to evolve.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate and complete product master data across ERP, CRM, and related business systems, including part numbers, product categories, item descriptions, cross-references, approved vendors, units of measure, and other product attributes.
• Create and maintain new product and part-number records, ensuring required information has been collected, reviewed, and accurately entered before products are made available for use across the business.
• Review product information for accuracy and consistency, identify incomplete or incorrect records, and make appropriate corrections to improve overall data quality.
• Perform regular data quality checks and audits to identify duplicate, outdated, inconsistent, or inaccurate information and trace data abnormalities back to their source.
• Take ownership of day-to-day product data requests while helping ensure product information is categorized and structured correctly to make it easier for Sales and other teams to access reliable information.
• Partner with Product Management to support larger new product introduction (NPI) initiatives, helping coordinate the collection, validation, setup, and implementation of product information across applicable systems.
• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure product data updates are completed accurately, consistently, and on time, including situations where execution requires input or action from multiple teams.
• Partner with IT and business teams to define and improve product data structures, attributes, and relationships so information remains consistent across systems and supports reliable reporting and analysis.
• Support the implementation and ongoing use of product data governance policies, standards, and procedures designed to improve data integrity across the business.
• Help establish consistent approaches to product categorization, naming conventions, attributes, units of measure, and other product-data standards.
• Investigate product data issues and work with the appropriate business or technical teams to identify root causes, resolve discrepancies, and prevent recurring problems.
• Participate in cross-functional projects to consolidate, clean, standardize, and optimize product master data across the business unit.
• Work with Product Management, Marketing, IT, Purchasing, Sales, Finance, Operations, and other teams when product data changes affect multiple systems, processes, or customer-facing information.
• Use Excel and other available tools to review large datasets, identify trends or abnormalities, validate information, and support product-data cleanup and reporting activities.
• Contribute ideas and recommendations for improving product-data processes, system usability, data quality, and the overall efficiency of product data management.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Data quality

Master data

Excel

SQL

Power BI

Attention to detail

Data governance

Collaboration

Tools

CRM systems

ERP systems

Job description

GCG is seeking a Product Data Steward to join Allied Wire & Cable’s connectivity & power solutions product management team. You will maintain and improve product master data across ERP, CRM, and related platforms, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and usability for sales and operations.

This role focuses on day-to-day data maintenance, governance, and contributions to NPI efforts, collaborating with cross-functional teams and using Excel, SQL, and BI tools.