Director, Master Data Management 1
Houston, TX, US, 77040
Element Solutions Inc
Business Overview
Element Solutions Inc. (NYSE: ESI) is a leading specialty chemicals company whose operating businesses formulate a broad range of solutions that enhance the performance of products people use every day. Developed in multi-step technological processes, our innovative solutions enable our customers' manufacturing processes in several key segments, including electronic circuitry, communication infrastructure, automotive systems, industrial surface finishing, consumer packaging, and offshore energy.
Customers of ESI’s businesses use our innovation as a competitive advantage, relying on ESI to help them navigate in fast-paced, high-growth markets. The breadth of ESI’s offerings provides strong strategic value to the end markets they serve. With over 5,500 people in operating facilities across more than 50 countries, ESI has established a growing legacy of creating technological advances for customers around the globe. Our people and technical sales teams are located close to our key markets, allowing us to maintain strong customer relationships and accelerate our product innovation process.
Job Purpose
Element Solutions Inc is searching for a seasoned Master Data Management leader and architect to help guide the organization through our data-driven transformation. As key leader within ESI’s growing Data Office, this position is responsible for collaborating across all business verticals and functions to develop and integrate Master Data Management best practices and tools. This role reports to the Senior Director, Data and Analytics and will design and lead our Master Data Management program. This role also performs management and administrative functions within the Data Office and IT.
The ideal candidate will be a true business partner, with strong interpersonal and influence skills, and must develop strong relationships with senior leadership while managing expectations.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of the MDM program for all data domains
- Responsible for Master Data Management (MDM) deployment globally, including the architecture and selection of tools used to govern, as well as administration and adoption
- Drive a data integrity culture by ensuring that MDM assets are understood, available and used
- Understand full master data lifecycle (including unique business and legal data requirements of various functions) and how quality data can be best provided, analyzed, preserved and optimized to leverage business benefit
- Ensure best practices related to Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) & Master Data Governance (quality, integrity, management, ownership, security and control protection, and archiving)
- Understanding of business operations and models as well as the critical business issues and requirements
- Collaborate with sales, marketing, finance, supply chain and operational teams
- Actively promote the Master Data Governance Program and its use within the organization
- Set the strategy and vision for building and maintaining an enterprise Master Data consolidation, rationalization, enrichment and archiving program.
- Monitor the IT and MDG related topics in the marketplace to enhance knowledge of new technology trends to remain technically adept in developing innovative solutions.
- Actively research and employ new, innovative strategic analysis and assessments to identify opportunities to introduce MDG tool into existing processes
- Manage change related to master data governance including mentoring, motivating and training the MDG end user community globally
- Responsible to driving the Master Data migration strategy during the M&A and other ERP consolidation projects
Requirements & Qualifications
- 10-12+ years of experience in Master Data Governance (MDG), strategies, and leadership
- Experience in defining Master Data Management strategies, implementing MDM services and capabilities, Data Modeling, Master Data frameworks and process facilitation, Metadata Management, Data Governance, and Data Quality solutions
- 8-12+ years of experience in SAP ERP and familiarity with master data management requirements
- SAP implementation experience with multiple full project lifecycles with key focus on master data management
- Experience in SAP S/4 HANA platform, Palantir, and Salesforce is preferred
- Strong understanding of various cloud-based data platforms such as Azure, Snowflake, AWS, etc
- Experience with ETL design and development, and (OLAP) tools to support business applications
- Proven ability to lead and manage all phases of a SDLC (Systems Development Lifecycle) or Agile methodology
- Strong business acumen and ability to translate new technology, Master Data and Reporting solutions into business value
- Knowledge of PMO, CMM and Six Sigma methodologies and standards
- Strong oral, written communication skills and presentation skills with a proven ability to understand key concepts and communicate effectively
Skills
- Adaptive, responsive individual able to thrive in an extremely fast-paced and dynamic work environment; handles pressures well; adjusts plans to meet changing needs
- Demonstrates leadership of project and program management function; proactive, integrated project execution, with processes, metrics, controls and governance for results-oriented application development that delivers business value
- A team player who works well with distributed, multi-cultural, multi-language teams
- Customer focused; meets internal and external customer expectations, delivers upon commitments; builds customer confidence; gains their trust and respect; builds relationships
- Excellent organizational, time and project management skills
- Leadership in all aspects of team resources from hiring, evaluation, assignment, direction, management, mentorship, training and career development
Education
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Relevant industryEEO Statement
Element Solutions Inc group of companies are E-Verify Companies and provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job applicant procedures. Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Veteran/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: Agile Architecture AWS Azure Computer Science Data governance Data management Data quality ETL Finance Industrial OLAP Research Salesforce SDLC Security Snowflake
Perks/benefits: Career development Startup environment
More jobs like this
Explore more AI, ML, Data Science career opportunities
Find even more open roles in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Big Data, and Data Science in general - ordered by popularity of job title or skills, toolset and products used - below.
- Open Data Science Manager jobs
- Open Lead Data Analyst jobs
- Open MLOps Engineer jobs
- Open Senior Business Intelligence Analyst jobs
- Open Data Engineer II jobs
- Open Data Manager jobs
- Open Principal Data Engineer jobs
- Open Power BI Developer jobs
- Open Data Scientist II jobs
- Open Junior Data Scientist jobs
- Open Sr Data Engineer jobs
- Open Data Analytics Engineer jobs
- Open Product Data Analyst jobs
- Open Business Intelligence Developer jobs
- Open Business Data Analyst jobs
- Open Data Analyst Intern jobs
- Open Sr. Data Scientist jobs
- Open Senior Data Architect jobs
- Open Big Data Engineer jobs
- Open Principal Data Scientist jobs
- Open Azure Data Engineer jobs
- Open Data Quality Analyst jobs
- Open Manager, Data Engineering jobs
- Open Junior Data Engineer jobs
- Open Data Product Manager jobs
- Open Data quality-related jobs
- Open GCP-related jobs
- Open Business Intelligence-related jobs
- Open Java-related jobs
- Open ML models-related jobs
- Open Data management-related jobs
- Open Privacy-related jobs
- Open PhD-related jobs
- Open Deep Learning-related jobs
- Open Finance-related jobs
- Open Data visualization-related jobs
- Open PyTorch-related jobs
- Open APIs-related jobs
- Open TensorFlow-related jobs
- Open NLP-related jobs
- Open Consulting-related jobs
- Open Snowflake-related jobs
- Open LLMs-related jobs
- Open CI/CD-related jobs
- Open Generative AI-related jobs
- Open Kubernetes-related jobs
- Open Hadoop-related jobs
- Open Data governance-related jobs
- Open Airflow-related jobs
- Open Databricks-related jobs