Role purpose
- Proactively lead the process to manage the lifecycle of our product related data including the creation, maintenance and retirement of Material Master Data and related data objects.
- Collaborate globally across functions to continuously improve, simplify, and harmonize processes within Material Master Data to efficiently provide accurate data to serve our farmer customer.
- Contribute to the implementation of new processes and technology in Material Master Data.
- Analyze Master Data for accuracy and completeness to continuously improve the quality of our data.
Accountabilities
- Independently gather all needed information from the various departments for Master Data and related data objects Creation, Maintenance, and Retirement of AMEA/Global Field Crops.
- Ensure the efficient, accurate and timely creation of materials by effectively communicating with Product Marketing, P&S to prioritize material requests in the correct sequence.
- Effectively provide the needed communication between departments (Master Data Maintenance (MDM), Product Marketing, Production & Supply (P&S), Customer Care, Product Pricing, Regional Finance, Global Product Costing, PMD etc.) on Variety, Material Master Data object and Data Table readiness.
- Conduct Annual MDM Business Rules Meeting with all key stakeholders.
- Provide expertise to ensure end-to-end business process harmonization and simplification. Provide healthy challenge and add tension to requests.
- Plan, organize and lead Process and/or System improvement efforts in conjunction with key IT and stakeholders.
- Coordinate, perform and/or review regression testing, UAT and sign-off when required.
- Create and maintain process documentation and education materials to support validation, implementation, and sustainability for changes on operational processes.
- Use and develop data analysis to ensure operational excellence and data quality of Material Master Data.
Knowledge, experience & capabilities
- Maintain close communication with all strategic stakeholders about current and future planned master data activities.
- Highly organized and capable of managing conflicting priorities to accommodate multiple stakeholders.
- Customer-oriented and growth mindset
- High degree of ownership and accountability
- Close cooperation with P&S, Business Process Analysts, Global Product Costing and Customer Service/Marketing.
- Represent MDM on SAP improvement efforts in conjunction with key IT and business stakeholders. Provide and support timely testing of regression testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) when requested by Business Process Analyst.
- Guide business process changes and alignment from implementation through Hypercare as new analytical tools are developed and rolled out.
- Take personal commitment and accountability to support our HSE goal zero initiative.
- Ability to take on additional assignments and challenges as needed.
Critical success factors & key challenges
Critical knowledge
- 6 plus years of Seeds Experience OR 5 years of Seeds Experience and a Bachelorās degree.
- Experience either in Seeds P&S or MDM (ideally in both) and business impacts of master data.
- Competency in SAP and Microsoft applications.
- Knowledge and/or experience on SQL and big data would be a plus.
Critical experience
- Good knowledge and understanding of variety, material master data and related processes as well as system knowledge (SAP, data process flow in system).
- Close cooperation with Marketing, P&S and MDM departments.
- Experience in an international work environment; ability to deal with various and diverse cultures and work habits.
- Strong ability to understand conceptual design to link process flows to IT tools.
- Knowledge in understanding SAP tables, linkages, and transaction design.
Critical technical, professional and personal capabilities
- Service and customer-oriented mindset.
- Pro-active.
- Intercultural sensitivity.
- Able to cope with pressure and conflicting demands.
- Good organizational skills.
- Problem solving and decision-making abilities.
- Fluent in English.
Critical leadership capabilities
- Communicates with impact ā Gains commitment of individuals and stakeholders in a compelling way.
- Focuses on customers ā Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers.
- Manages for performance ā Skilfully plans, organizes, and monitors performance to create value and achieve excellence in delivery.
- Collaborates across boundaries ā Collaborates effectively across organizational and functional boundaries and leverages diversity.