Data Management Sr Manager

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At Graphic Packaging International, we produce the paper cup that held your coffee this morning, the basket that transported those bottles of craft beer you enjoyed last weekend, and the microwave tray that heated your gourmet meal last night. We’re one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world’s most recognized brands of food, beverage, foodservice, household, personal care and pet products. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we are collaborative, diverse, innovative individuals who create inspired packaging while giving back to our communities. 

With over 25,000 employees working in more than 130 locations worldwide, we strive to be environmentally responsible in our industry and in the communities where we operate. We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry’s best to reward the talented people who make our company successful.

If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, we’d love to hear from you.

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Mission:
GPI has embarked on an enterprise-wide multi-year journey to transform data quality, business processes and enabling technology to support the growth strategy of the organization. As part of the transformation effort, we are in the early stages of building out a formal MDM organization.
The Sr. Manager, Data Management – Processes is a new role to support the company’s growth transformation roadmap by establishing and maintaining processes to support sustainable, scalable master data governance/data life cycle across multiple data domains, SAP and non-SAP platforms, and business processes.
This role requires previous strategic and tactical data management experience as well as a strong understanding of SAP S4/HANA and/or SAP ECC and the cross functional integration points of enterprise master data in a manufacturing environment.

How you will support GPI:
• Engage with senior leaders and business stakeholders to assess and understand master data business requirements, proactively communicates project plans and execution status
• Interact as a leader on global, regional and site projects under the direction of the Sr. Director, Business Transformation – Data Management
• Collaboratively organizes and leads third-party resources and cross functional teams to document and maintain multi domain global master data policies, processes, data standards, RACI, Metrics/KPIs, SLA’s, training documentation and desktop procedures across SAP and non-SAP technology platforms
• Utilize third-party resources and cross functional teams to establish and maintain formal documentation of master data architecture/lineage, metadata dictionaries and business glossaries
• Ensure documentation and data management process controls are established and operating effectively to support both internal and external data security/audit/compliance requirements
• Will develop and manage communication strategies and tools to effectively educate the organization on global data governance and its relationship to desired business outcomes
• Routinely reports on the overall health of data across multiple data domains compared to data quality standards and metrics
• Will manage the relationship and oversee the work of third-party data specialists accountable for processing master data requests as well as performing special MDM projects
• Proactively works with Master Data Process Domain Leads and other team members utilizing innovative and resourceful tactics to harmonize and streamline master data quality processes and controls across multiple domains
• Liaison with MDM Technology Lead to prioritize, develop, and implement automated solutions for data governance
• Prepare and provide proposals for new policies, processes, standards, technologies, etc. and present to Global Data Governance Council (GDGC) for approval
• Provide project management support for M&A’s, system conversions, and other master data related projects prioritized by the GDGC
• Prepare and perform training and educate the organization on data governance – the why and the requirements
• Actively advocate for a data-driven culture – be viewed as championing the criticality of MDM

Education, experience, technical skills requirements:
• Minimum, bachelor’s degree in a STEM or Data Science degree preferred – Masters a plus
• Demonstrate high performance leadership standards and builds/develops high-performance teams – 8+ years leading direct a