Senior Manager, SAP Data, (Master, Transactions & Analytics)

Overview

Lead the global SAP master data strategy, governance and SAP MDG execution for Xylem's S/4HANA programs, and manage a global team of MDG functional consultants, data architects and domain stewards.

What you'll do

• Own the global SAP master data strategy: domain scope, target data model, harmonization standards, numbering and classification conventions, and hierarchy design across segments.
• Define the enterprise data model for core domains: material, customer, vendor, BOM and routing, work center, equipment and functional location, pricing, cost center and profit center, GL and chart of accounts.
• Set the standardization line between global template, legitimate segment-specific variation and local variation to be retired, and defend it under business pressure.
• Build the master data roadmap across deployment waves and into steady state, including the path for future acquisition integration.
• Establish the master data governance operating model: domain data owners, stewards, councils, decision rights, escalation and change control.
• Define and enforce data standards, business rules, validation logic and mandatory field policies at the point of creation.
• Own master data KPIs (completeness, accuracy, timeliness, duplication rate and request cycle time) and report them to segment and process leadership as a standing metric.
• Build and hold accountable the business-side stewardship network across segments.
• Own SAP MDG design, build and operations: data models, UI configuration, workflow and BRF+ rules, change request processes, replication through DRF, and integration with the S/4HANA landscape.
• Implement duplicate detection, matching, survivorship and consolidation across legacy sources.
• Design MDG onboarding for each deployment wave so converted data lands in a governed steady state.
• Operate MDG as a product with a backlog, release cadence and continuous improvement.
• Partner with the Data Conversion and Migration Senior Manager by setting target standards and acceptance criteria that conversion is measured against.
• Work with the ABAP and BTP team on MDG extensions, integrations and side-by-side data services on BTP.
• Support deployment waves through data design workshops, harmonization decisions and post go-live data defect resolution.
• Lead a global team of MDG functional consultants, data architects and domain stewards across onshore and offshore, and manage partner delivery quality.

What you'll need

• 15+ years in enterprise master data management, with at least 8 years in SAP master data and 5+ years leading global teams.
• Deep hands-on SAP MDG expertise across multiple domains, including data modeling, workflow, BRF+, DRF replication, and consolidation and mass processing.
• Proven master data leadership on at least two global S/4HANA programs, including harmonization across heterogeneous legacy ERPs.
• Heavy industry line-of-business experience is required: manufacturing, industrial equipment, water, energy, process or engineered products.
• Demonstrated command of material master complexity across engineering and manufacturing views, multi-level BOMs and routings, variant and configurable products, spare and service parts catalogs, equipment and functional location hierarchies, and plant-level data.
• Demonstrated ownership of a governance model that survived contact with the business, with named owners, operating cadence, enforced standards and published KPIs.
• Strong functional understanding of how master data drives downstream process outcomes in planning, procurement, manufacturing, service and finance.
• Experience with data quality tooling, profiling and remediation at scale.
• Executive presence to arbitrate harmonization disputes between segment leaders and make the standardization call stick.

Nice to have

• SAP Datasphere, Signavio process mining, or comparable analytics used to expose data-driven process failure.
• Master data implications of installed-base and aftermarket service models.
• Experience onboarding acquisitions onto a common master data standard.
• Classification, taxonomy and catalog management for large materials portfolios.
• Familiarity with regulatory and trade compliance data requirements in an industrial context.

Details

• Location: Bangalore.
• Leads a global team across onshore and offshore locations.