Master Data Lead

Description

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At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy. 

From your PASSION to ours

Lactalis USA is currently hiring a Master Data Lead to be located in Buffalo, NY. 

As a Master Data Lead, the role will carry out responsibilities such as but not limited to overseeing key processes and

projects associated with the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the master data domain (customers, vendors, material)

within the respective ERP system. Additionally, the Master Data Lead will collaborate with various departments to ensure

business operations processes are aligned with SAP Core Model design and Lactalis corporate goals. This role involves

leading cross-functional conversations to capture business requirements that drive process improvements in master data

maintenance with both internal and external customers to align duties with the company's goals and values.

From our STORY to yours

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for development and documentation of processes with business data stewards to support operations.

• Define and implement master data strategy, policies, controls, and programs to ensure the enterprise data is

accurate, secure, and reliable, working in collaboration with technical and business subject matter experts.

• Identify areas for data quality improvements and help to resolve data quality problems. Able to identify errors and

correct them timely. Able to suggest process control or process design strategies.

• Responsible for data profiling, cleansing and data validation within SAP S/4 and MDM tool.

• Assists in data management, governance, and data quality of master data requirements with other functional data

owners to ensure functional master data integrity across the operations

• Work closely with the business/IT to ensure alignment of master data rules and the operations of the application

meet all requirements

• Conducts data cleaning to rid the system of old, unused data, or duplicate data for better management and quicker

access.

• Leads documentation of new processes, data standards etc. with technical and functional teams

• Actively engage with business in sustaining approved Master Data Management processes

• Actively engage with business and IT for a successful S4/HANA Data Migration

• Creating, updating, and deleting master data in S4

• Work with team leads to write and maintain standard operating procedures for various master data lifecycle

scenarios (create, update, extend, block, unblock, mark for deletion) based on business need

• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve errors and assist other team members or business partners with related master

data issues raised

• Proactively cleanse key master data to block inactive records, block duplicate information, establish business

partner relationships

• Review master data requests for adherence to standards and maintained within requirements and with quality

• Communicate and liaise with business units to thoroughly understand business requirements and impact of master

data changes

• Train new MDM team members

• Point of contact and responsible for the coordination of all data-related tasks and activities for