Key Responsibilities:

• Data Quality & Data Governance
  • Guard the quality, integrity, and consistency of procurement and material master data across systems.
  • Define, maintain, and evolve procurement and material data standards, including naming conventions, classifications, mandatory attributes, validation rules, and approval logic.
  • Ensure compliance with data governance principles and agreed master data lifecycle rules (creation, change, deactivation).
• Material Master Data & Procurement Integration:
  • Ensure Material Master Data is designed and maintained to support sourcing, category strategies, purchasing, pricing mechanisms, and P2P processes.
  • Manage dependencies between material master data and procurement objects (e.g. purchasing views, material grouping, pricing relevance, reporting attributes).
  • Ensure cross process consistency between material, supplier, contract, and procurement data.
• Data Model & Master Data Operations
  • Contribute to the development and maintenance of the procurement and material data model, including attribute structures and cross object dependencies.
  • Coordinate master data updates and corrections with master data execution teams, ensuring timely and high quality implementation.
  • Perform data validation and consistency checks; identify data gaps, anomalies, and structural weaknesses.
• Issue Resolution / SPOC Role
  • Act as the SPOC for procurement and material master data issues impacting sourcing, purchasing, or reporting.
  • Perform root cause analysis of recurring data issues (process, governance, system, or user behavior).
  • Coordinate sustainable fixes with IT, master data, procurement, and analytics teams.
• Process Improvement & Enablement
  • Identify opportunities to improve material and procurement master data processes, reducing manual rework and operational inefficiencies.
  • Support digitalization and automation initiatives related to master data management.
  • Ensure procurement and material master data readiness for reporting and analytics, including spend analysis and performance reporting.
• Collaboration & Documentation
  • Collaborate closely with Category Managers to align material and procurement master data with category strategies.
  • Support creation and maintenance of data documentation, guidelines, rulebooks, and process descriptions.
  • Contribute to effective cross functional cooperation within procurement, P2P, analytics, IT, and governance teams.