Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Global MDG Technical Lead

Enterprise ApplicationsPosted on Nov 13

Full-timeSantiago de Querétaro, Qro., MexicoNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in Master Data Management or Data Architecture, including relevant collaboration experience, across multiple domains in a complex multinational corporate environment.
Experience designing and implementing Master Data Management solutions on the SAP stack, including MDG, IS, Data Services, or HANA.
Ability to envision, model, and optimize complex yet efficient business processes, data, and workflows.
Demonstrated leadership skills, independence, and proven management experience within a matrix organization.
Background in business intelligence, information, data, and analytics.
Strong business acumen in the fast-moving consumer goods industry and the Product/Material area.
Experience with Solutions Architecture and applications portfolio management.
Experience managing stakeholder relationships with global leaders.

Responsibilities

Lead the technical implementation of SAP MDG-M (Product) initiatives within the area of responsibility, primarily continuous improvement initiatives and projects.
Support transformation programs by providing expertise on current MDG solutions when required.
Represent the voice of IT within the Product Data Council and provide thought leadership, best practices, and delivery of agreed IT solutions and capabilities.
Drive the creation of a single, consistent view of Product data across the enterprise throughout its lifecycle by improving the enterprise data model and architecture, SAP MDG templates and integrations, data quality, reporting capabilities, and retirement of legacy solutions.
Partner with Master Data Domain IT Leads to assess current solutions and guide requirements toward designs that meet business needs while minimizing changes to the existing model.
Lead MDG solution design and integration architecture across upstream and downstream systems, leveraging MDG capabilities to address business requirements.
Ensure vendor partners deliver the agreed solution design and consistently apply design governance standards across all functional domains.
Collaborate with domain leads to identify and highlight where business demand requires either a solution enhancement or business process transformation.
Provide regular updates to leadership teams, with accountability for progress, actions, risks, and issue management.

Job Description:

At Mars, we have bold aspirationsto be a digital-first business. We’ve all experiencedhow digital and dataarerapidly transforming our day-to-daywork, and we needto respond more quickly to the changing world around us.Over the past several years, data management and expertisehaveevolved organically rather than strategicallywithin our businessand, as a result,the way we currently manage data is fragmented.In 2020, we announced theMaster Data networkat Mars to ensure timely, accurate, and trusted Master Data, critical to our aspiration to be a digital-first, data-centric business.

As part of this continued journey,we will also need to transform our IT:renewing solutions & platformsto digitizeMaster Data Management, andintroducing new technologies & capabilitiesthat deliver timely, accurate, and trusted data assets, empowering our associates to use it effectively within the business context.

We are seeking aGlobaltechnical leadto play a pivotal role in this journey.The primary purpose is to provide technical expertise on the current MDG solution and support the delivery of continuous improvement initiatives, projects, andtransformationprogramssuch as S4,cPLM, andKellanovaintegration.

What are we looking for?

Leading the technical implementation of SAP MDG-M (Product) initiatives withinhis/herarea of responsibility, primarily continuous improvement initiatives (CIPs) and projects.

Supporting transformation programs by providing expertise on current MDG solutions when required.

Representing the voice of IT within the Product Data Council and providing thought leadership, best practices, and delivery of agreed IT solutions and capabilities.

Driving the creation of a single, consistent view of Product data across the enterprise throughout its lifecycle by improving the enterprise data model and architecture, SAP MDGtemplates and integrations, data quality, reporting capabilities, and the retirement of legacy solutions.

Partnering with Master Data Domain IT Leads to assess current solutions and guide requirements toward designs that meet business needs while minimizing changes to the existing model.

Leading MDG solution design and integration architecture across upstream and downstream systems, leveraging best-in-class MDG capabilities to address business requirements.

Ensuring that vendor partners deliver the agreed solution design and that design governance standards are consistently applied across all functional domains.

Collaborating with domain leads toidentifyandhighlightwhere business demand requires eithera solutionenhancement or business process transformation.

Providing regular updates to leadership teams, with accountability for progress, actions, risks, and issue management.

Qualifications:

Considerable experience (5+ years) in Master Data Management or Data Architecture (including relevant collaboration experience) spanning multiple domains in a complex multinational corporate environment.

Experience in designing and implementing MDM solutions on the SAP stack (MDG/IS/Data Services/HANA, etc.)

Envision, model, and optimize complex yet efficient business processes, data, and workflows.

Demonstrated Leadership skills, with independence and proven management experience within a matrix organization

Background in the BI, Information, Data, and Analytics space

Strong business acumen in the FMCG industry and the Product/Material area

Experience with Solutions Architecture, Applications portfolio management

Stakeholder relationship management with global leaders

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About the Company

Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Mars makes confectionery, food, and petcare products and also operates pet health services through networks like Banfield, VCA, BluePearl, and Royal Canin. Its products are marketed under familiar brands such as M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Skittles, Dove, Orbit, Pedigree, Royal Canin, Whiskas, and Cocoavia, sold globally to consumers and pet owners. The company differs from competitors by combining a broad, diversified portfolio with a global, family-owned structure guided by the Mars Principles (Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, Freedom), which drives its operations and partnerships. Mars aims to help communities prosper and to grow its business while improving social and environmental outcomes, using its scale to support responsible practices across the world.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: Debt Financing
Total funding: $27B
Headquarters: McLean, VA
Founded: 1911

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