Junior Associate - Product Master Data

Job Summary

Avantor is seeking a Jr. Associate for the Product Master Data team. It is an entry-level position. The prospect supports Avantor s data management strategies by investigating and resolving data quality issues in enterprise applications via deletion and merging, while safeguarding against data loss. Execute mass data management processes while ensuring data quality. Manage documentation, updates to the Data Dictionary and data management training materials, under the guidance of the Enterprise Data Management Analytics team. Coordinate and conduct mass data imports into core systems, and mass data-cleansing initiatives, ensuring integrity and eliminating redundancy from corporate databases.

Qualifications

- Bachelors degree, preferably in science, math, biology, information systems, or engineering field.

• 1-5 years of work experience
• Experience in a manufacturing and distribution environment preferred

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Results oriented and works with a sense of urgency. Assertive, responsible for his/her own work and has a strong affinity for defining work in deliverables and is willing to commit to deadlines.
• Focused and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure
• Knowledge of distribution, project management skills, critical thinking, data analysis
• Intermediate to advanced Excel, Access, SAP, and SQL skills
• Excellent communication skills, oral and written
• Results driven, self-sufficient and highly motivated
• Must be able to work effectively with all levels of the organization
• Must be able to develop excel reports as well as PowerPoint presentations
• Knowledge of Avantor systems and business processes (i.e STIBO and Qlikview) a plus

Major Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Extract, analyze, update data, and implement of process improvements
• Product Add Forms - interacts with VWR marketing, supply chain, pricing and regulatory teams, along with contacts at suppliers to shepherd and complete the product add process. Applies proper coding where needed.
• Product maintenance - works with other functional teams on the discontinuation and attribute changes of products, including description changes, warehouse ties, internal coding, etc. to maintain current and accurate information.
• Responsible for understanding end-to-end data flows and identifying data dependencies in support of delivery, release, and change management
• Works with other departments to stage, test, and validate system enhancements.
• Product pricing - works with marketing, pricing, sourcing, and purchasing teams to maintain accurate supplier pricing in the system.
• Works with large amounts of data and regularly audits, researches, analyzes, makes modifications to, and communicates about all of the above tasks.
• Maintains accurate tracking of open and closed requests to ensure smooth workflow and accurate reporting.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

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