Masterdata Analyst I

Overview

The Masterdata Analyst I owns the new product introduction path through master data, turning a product the business has decided to offer into a complete, correctly tiered, orderable set of records before the first requisition is raised. The role also manages weekly supplier price verification and carries and coaches Level I associates on the shift.

What you'll do

• Raise new material requests on behalf of channel management, capturing the full attribute set: identifiers, standardised description, net and gross weights in kilograms where regionally mandated, classification references, unit valuation and supplier detail.
• Apply the correct material tier classification for new product introductions, with the audio-visual carve-out stated on the request rather than assumed.
• Verify the required identifier type per asset class before origination: manufacturer part number for hardware assets, universal product code for accessories.
• Check for an existing equivalent configuration before originating a new record, using part number, universal product code and technical specification.
• Apply the mandatory validation gate for hardware additions, managed-service-provider additions and special orders, and release nothing without documented approval on the record.
• Decide whether a request should proceed, and reject or return incomplete or duplicative requests with the specific gap stated.
• Establish the base material for the core product, then originate regional variant requests such as power plug types and keyboard layouts.
• Keep the parent request open until every regional variant has been created and closed.
• Maintain the variant hierarchy over the product life, adding configurations as regions are enabled and retiring them as configurations are withdrawn.
• Confirm each new item is catalogue-ready before release: description standards met, worldwide availability enabled, correct category and supercategory mapping, and complete specification content.
• Coordinate the regional rollout sequence with channel management, mobility operations and authorised inventory specialists.
• Support product retirement and tier reclassification at end of sale, coordinating obsolescence timing with channel management and regional stock positions.
• Run the weekly price verification cycle across the managed catalogue, comparing live catalogue pricing against current supplier price files.
• Process supplier price sheets into purchase information records, scrubbing line items for plants, countries and delivery locations that are not maintained.
• Validate unit costs, currency and region mappings before release, and escalate discrepancies to channel management and procurement.
• Contribute to the monthly pricing review against historical baselines, flagging anomalies before they reach the ordering storefront.
• Keep catalogue pricing reconciled with procurement and finance records, and maintain evidence for every price change.
• Track recurring pricing discrepancies to root cause with the supplier or channel owner.
• Maintain forward visibility of the new product pipeline, and work approval blockers on new material additions with turnaround-time analysis.
• Flag at-risk introductions early to the shift lead, naming the specific dependency that is slipping.
• Own the master-data defect queue for introduced products, and work with Asset Lifecycle Management on underlying faults.
• Review a sampled share of Level I output, coach on supplier attribute extraction and gating judgement, and take the cases Level I should not decide alone.
• Identify automation candidates in the price-check, record-loading and variant-creation cycles, and keep procedures current as catalogue administration migrates onto new platforms.

What you'll need

• 3–7+ years in master data management, catalogue management, product or pricing master data, procurement operations, or supplier-facing category support.
• Hands-on SAP experience with material master, purchase information records and price conditions, in a governed request-and-approval workflow.
• Demonstrated ownership of a new product introduction or item-onboarding path end to end, including parent-child or base-variant record structures.
• Demonstrated ownership of a recurring supplier price-file review cycle at volume, with responsibility for what loads and what is rejected.
• Ability to scrub, map and load large supplier data sets against plant, country and delivery scope without breaking existing dependencies.
• Judgement to distinguish a genuinely new configuration from a duplicate, and the willingness to return a request rather than complete it.
• Confident written and spoken English with suppliers, channel stakeholders and internal requesters.
• Willing and able to work a shift-based roster, including night shifts, from the Hyderabad delivery centre.

Nice to have

• Storefront or e-commerce catalogue administration, including regional visibility rules and staged-to-live catalogue promotion.
• End-of-sale and end-of-purchase transition experience, including regional stock depletion.
• Exposure to trade classification data and cross-border documentation requirements.
• Experience reviewing or coaching junior analysts on data-quality and gating decisions.
• Spreadsheet automation or scripting applied to price-threshold and validation checks.
• Familiarity with IT service management platforms such as ServiceNow.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.
• Shift-based roster, including night shifts.