Director - Master Data Management (REMOTE)
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Wesco
We build, connect, power, and protect the world. As a leading global supply chain solutions provider, we use inspiration to drive innovation.As the Director - Master Data management, you will be responsible for leading a regional, cross-functional team ensuring the integrity of Wesco Master Data and supporting processes. You will be responsible for contributing to the overall strategy and leading the governance, stewardship, data quality, development, and effective application of data to drive consistency and efficiency within our organization and with key business partners. You will establish the vision and direction of the MDM data products created, providing hands-on leadership and responsibility for the development team, and fostering stakeholder (Enterprise Applications, Sales, Supply chain, Finance, Human Resources) relationships and trust across the enterprise. You will be accountable for driving the data governance business process and influencing cross functional departments.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with business functions/stakeholders on Master Data and Governance idea generation and drive changes when necessary
- Responsible for establishing, building and running the Master Data Domains
- Accountable for setting up standards, best practices, innovative and automation modeling techniques and procedures
- Drive harmonization of relevant Master Data processes across in Wesco to provide a common and consistent view across the enterprise
- Define, build and lead a team of data stewards, master data domain experts, architects to help design and implement Master Data processes and solutions and work closely with other Enterprise Application and Data Office teams for data syndication and use
- Champion data accuracy culture adoption to the broader organization by ensuring that Master Data Management assets are understood, available and used
- Develop metrics showing impacts of master data activities, to display key benefits and outcomes associated with master data
- Establish and communicate Master Data Management best practices including people, processes, and technology
- Drives operational excellence with a continued focus on Master Data, including advanced technologies, to optimize data value
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree - Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field required; Master's Degree preferred
- Licenses/Certificates/Designations – Master Data Management preferred
- 10 years of IT applications/operational experience; with 7 years in Master Data Domain like Products, Customers, Suppliers etc.
- Experience in building and leading a team from the ground up, including hiring and ongoing people development.
- Experience in building Master Data management Domains systems (Product, Customers, Suppliers, Reference) and establish Governance process from ground up
- Experience overseeing, developing, or implementing Master Data products
- Graduate-level understanding of machine learning techniques, knowledge representation, and artificial intelligence, along with a strong understanding of statistics
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and organizational skills, and ability to effectively manage multiple work streams, along with demonstrated creativity and latitude in problem solving, including the ability to prioritize and execute multiple competing goals
- Strong presentation skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong team leadership and/or project management experience with multiple simultaneous initiatives and managing a team of Data Stewards, MDM Architects, Data Analyst etc.
- Skilled in the management of complex systems and decision-making under uncertainty
- Excellent project and time management skills and strong attention to detail, with experience in adhering to best practices of managing the life cycle of data-intensive machine learning projects
- Strategic planning experience that adapts to communication between technical and business stakeholders
- Exceptional problem-solving and crisis management skills and ability to work independently/within a team
- Ability to travel up to 25%
Wesco International, Inc., including its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Wesco”) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law. US applicants only, we are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
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