Job description
This position may be located in Europe or the United States.
- Candidates located in EU, please apply to job# 231198
About Us: Gore is a materials science company focused on improving lives through discovery, product innovation and rewarding careers for our Associates.
About the Industry: From EMI shielding to semiconductor manufacturing, Gore products ensure reliability in an era of constant connectivity. Learn more at gore.com/products/industries
About the Role: We are looking for a SAP Data Leader to join our SAP-MES project team as part of Enterprise Transformation. This Associate will lead the execution of all data deliverables required to meet transformation journey timelines for the implementation of SAP (including SAP MDG, S4, Ariba and ME/Mii) across the Enterprise. The SAP Data Leader will develop and execute a program data plan in alignment with the Business, and Enterprise Data & Analytics Strategies that spans business processes and divisions, and which ensures the quality and trustworthiness of the data. Led by Enterprise Data & Analytics Leader, and part of the team driving and guiding the data work supporting the transformation journey and beyond, the associate will partner with data stakeholders within transformation and across Divisions, Functions, and Enterprise Data & Analytics to ensure strategic decision making for the management of data for the Enterprise.
This position offers multiple work arrangements: on-site at any US East facility (Newark, Delaware or Elkton, Maryland) or US West facility (Flagstaff or Phoenix, Arizona), hybrid or fully remote work allowed in most locations within the United States, depending upon the responsibilities of the role and business needs.*
Responsibilities:
- Lead data resources in the execution of all data deliverables required to meet transformation journey timelines, including data designs to support business process and analytics requirements, defining and reporting program data metrics, managing the storage of data artifacts, and partnering with change management to ensure stakeholders are navigated through impacts
- Lead the strategy and execution of designing, testing, training, and implementing SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) for material, customer, supplier, profit center, cost center and GL account master data
- Work as part of the SAP-MES Program leadership organization to manage data to support milestones, risks, analytics and business process requirements, investments, resourcing, communications, and change management
- Partner with other workstream leads to inform global program implementation plans considering all needed program data deliverable execution details and cross program interdependencies
- Plan, coordinate, and facilitate data-cleansing efforts for the purpose of preventing the migration of corrupt, inaccurate, outdated, or redundant information from legacy systems
- Oversee data rationalization, remediation, enrichment, and preparation activities for the program, coordinating with the Division Data Leaders and Enterprise Data & Analytics Leaders to ensure that data reconciliation is performed
- Be accountable for defining data mapping & construction, managing data migration and data quality workstreams, and driving data migration delivery for program deployments and enhancements
- Be accountable for the execution of data governance processes within program team, and for representing the program as a member of the Enterprise Data Governance Council
- Collaborate with division, function, and Enterprise Data to ensure that data control requirements are implemented, and that data quality is managed in alignment with the needs of the business
- Apply data governance for the program’s application data, including working with divisional and functional teams to define roles and responsibilities and ensuring clear accountability for the stewardship of Gore’s data assets in sustainment
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years Data Management and Data Governance experience, working across multiple domains of data
- Demonstrated experience leading the strategy and execution of data migrations for SAP implementations
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing complex multi-year projects, including experience working with external partners
- Deep understanding of SAP data structures and architecture, as well as the technical and integration architecture intersections of SAP with other platforms (e.g., SAP MDG, Ariba, SAP IBP, Salesforce, Teamcenter, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of data strategy, data governance, data architecture, and data management best practices best practices
- Experience working across multiple data domains, and multiple projects and programs, to identify and resolve conflicts relating to data; understanding the broad impact of data related decisions
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences. Includes the ability to convey complex concepts in a simple manner and relate to business impact and value to leadership
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing a diverse, global team
- Strong influence, partnering, conflict management, facilitation, and communications skills
- Ability to travel 25%
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience championing efforts to create new capabilities; ability to envision a future and influence others to commit to that view or approach
- Demonstrated ability to partner with senior leaders to gain commitment and remove roadblocks
- Experience with an SAP greenfield implementation
- Remote Working Arrangements are permitted for Associates in the continental United States (US) and Canada, with appropriate approval and compliance with Gore’s remote working policies, from the country in which they are employed. For fully remote roles, the following locations are not eligible for new fully remote work arrangements: Alaska and Hawaii (for all roles), and Rhode Island (for wage/hourly roles only).
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