Data Manager

For our client, we are looking for an experienced Data Manager who is responsible for governing, maintaining, and continuously improving global SAP master data within an international manufacturing environment, with strong expertise in SAP ECC/S/4HANA, material, customer and supplier master data, data governance, data migration, and cross-functional process integration, in order to ensure accurate, consistent, compliant, and reliable master data across global production sites and business operations.

Start date: asap / by arrangement

Planed Durration: 31.01.27 (big chance for extension)

Workload: 100%

Contract Type: Contracting

Location: Männedorf

Remote: Yes 1 day

Your Tasks:

• Coordinate end-to-end creation, change, extension, validation, blocking and retirement of material, customer and supplier master data.
• Define and improve global data standards, naming conventions, validation rules, duplicate controls, approval workflows and data quality measures with business owners.
• Govern material master and BOM readiness for engineering changes, product launches, plant
• extensions and production-line or manufacturing-site transfers.
• Coordinate plant-specific data for planning, procurement, production, inventory, quality, costing,
• logistics and trade-compliance dependencies.
• Coordinate customer and SAP Business Partner data, including sold-to, ship-to, bill-to and payer
• relationships, sales-area extensions, addresses, tax and finance attributes with accountable
• functions.
• Coordinate supplier and SAP Business Partner data, including purchasing-organization and
• company-code extensions, purchasing attributes, addresses and finance-related data with Procurement and Finance.
• Promote one consistent Business Partner identity per legal entity where appropriate, with governed roles, organizational extensions and duplicate prevention.
• Lead master data activities for ERP migration, S/4HANA deployments and site transfers: scoping,
• cleansing, mapping, validation, testing, cutover, reconciliation and stabilization.
• Align engineering and operational data across PLM/Windchill, SAP MDG, S/4HANA and other
• integrated applications.
• Coordinate Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, Finance, Quality, Trade
• Compliance, IT and local Data Managers to resolve data dependencies and risks.
• Monitor data quality KPIs, investigate root causes, implement corrective actions and report readiness, risks and progress.

Your Profile:

• At least 5 years of relevant SAP master data management experience in international manufacturing, including cross-functional coordination.
• Strong knowledge of SAP material master, BOMs and plant-specific MRP, procurement, production and logistics attributes.
• Practical knowledge of customer and supplier master data, SAP Business Partner roles,
• organizational extensions and approval controls.
• Experience with production or plant transfers, SAP migration, S/4HANA rollout or complex data
• readiness and cutover activities.
• Working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and/or ECC, SAP MDG workflows, validation and data quality processes.
• Ability to apply global standards while coordinating business-owned engineering, procurement, sales, finance and compliance data.
• Strong analytical, communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills; ability to manage priorities and escalate risks.
• Advanced Excel and data reconciliation skills; fluent professional English.

Nice to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering, information systems, supply chain, business or data management.
• Seven or more years of relevant experience, including global workstream leadership or process
• improvement.
• Hands-on experience with SAP MDG, S/4HANA transformation, data migration tools and automated data quality monitoring.
• Knowledge of Windchill/PLM, engineering change management, variant configuration and BOM
• integration.
• Cross-functional SAP SD, MM, PP, FI/CO, QM and GTS/international trade process knowledge.
• Experience in regulated manufacturing, medical technology and global multi-plant environments.
• Experience with Power BI, SQL, workflow design, automation or data governance certifications.
• German or other additional languages.