Master Data Manager

Job purpose

• Secure master data (MD) quality and availability at the Sanofi target;;


• Support master data quality improvement activities across all sites in the frame of MS master data playbook;;


• Identify any master data quality and availability issues and propose solutions and remediation (continuous improvement spirit);;

Key accountabilities

• Represent your teams and report to respective leads;;;;


• Collect and raise continuous improvement (CI) measures to improve collaboration between business operations and business stakeholders, prepare relevant materials to obtain senior leadership buy-in;;


• Understand and put in place effective governance mechanism


• Regular performance reviews of team;;


• To motivate team members to improve everyday;;


• To ensure required skills of team members and increase retention rate;;


• Identify and leverage synergies across the different teams within MD business operations;;


• Be the first level of escalation for your team;;;;


• Liaise with key business stakeholders (e.g. Business Process / System Owner);;


• Lead a team performing the following MD activities:;;;;


• Ensuring data standards and data quality targets are met, suggest business rules based on recurring data issues;;


• Coordinating MD collection to ensure efficient e2e data maintenance processes and preparing MD extraction to support business meeting (e.g., capability review);;


• Checking single / mass MD requests and performing data enrichments;;


• Driving continuous improvement by identifying and raising initiatives to respective team lead;;


• Supporting MD evolution, projects, and improvement initiatives, including cleansing initiatives and migrations;;


• Providing input for documentation, training materials, and knowledge management;;;;


• Maintaining MD user authorizations per system and role;;


• Supporting MD community on site level, incl. data content owner/ MD users and conduct impact analyses for upcoming site project;;


• Contributing to the education of the MD community;;;;


• Monitoring the SLA of the MD creation / modification/ deactivation processes, and supporting the development of KPIs, data quality dashboards and scorecards;;

Preferred Skills/Expertise/Experience:

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years as team leader in Master Data Management with knowledge of pharma industry (e.g., GxP);;


• Work experience / educational background in supply chain mgmt. / logistics;;

Skills/Expertise:

• Strong understanding of Master Data Management and data governance frameworks;;;;


• Work experience with SAP ERP (ECC 6.0, S/4H, MM MDG modules);;


• Mandatory English, preferably languages for key markets (French, Spanish);;;

Competency requirements:

• Lead and motivate the team to get better everyday;;


• Be a good communicator and leader to resolve ad-hoc issues;;


• Strong willingness to learn;;

Sanofi values

• Stretch to go beyond the level we have operated at up until now;;


• Act in the interest of our patients and customers;;;;


• Take action instead of waiting to be told what to do;;;;


• Put the interests of the organization ahead of my own or those of our team;;