About The Position
The Associate Director – Business Partner Data Governance leads the strategy, governance, and operational enablement of Customer and Vendor master data within the SAP S/4HANA transformation. This role ensures a standardized, high-quality Business Partner (BP) data foundation by owning the data model, enabling governance, and driving adoption of SAP MDG and operational processes across the enterprise.
Requirements
- Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 16 years of relevant experience
- 10 years experience in Data Management, MDM, or ERP programs with expertise in SAP S/4HANA Business Partner Model
- Experience with Customer and Vendor master data harmonization, data migration and data cleansing activities.
- Experience leading cross-functional transformational initiatives while influencing executives and stakeholders
- U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with data quality/governance tools (e.g., Informatica, Syniti)
- Experience in Aerospace & Defense or regulated industries
- Experience with shared services / EBS operating models
Responsibilities
- Own and sustain the Customer & Vendor Common Information Model (CIM) aligned to S/4HANA Business Partner
- Define global standards for attributes, hierarchies, and lifecycle management
- Establish and govern Business Partner hierarchies (legal, operational, parent-child structures)
- Ensure alignment with downstream systems (Finance, Procurement, Analytics platforms such as Snowflake/BW)
- Establish and run the Business Partner governance model, including councils, policies, and decision rights
- Define roles (Data Owners, Stewards, Custodians) and RACI across Business Units, Procurement, Finance, and DT
- Drive governance cadence, issue resolution, and escalation processes
- Partner with Enterprise Business Services (EBS) to stand up and scale a Master Data Operations 'factory'
- Define intake, workflow, and exception management processes for BP create/update/extend
- Establish clear separation of governance (policy) and operations (execution)
- Own business requirements and roadmap for SAP MDG (Business Partner domain)
- Define data models, validations, workflows, and integrations with S/4HANA
- Ensure scalable, compliant design in partnership with DT
- Drive fit-to-standard adoption while enabling required business flexibility
- Drive enterprise adoption of MDG and governance processes across Business Units and Procurement
- Lead stakeholder engagement, training, and change management
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders to enforce governance discipline
- Define and manage data quality framework, KPIs, and dashboards
- Establish and monitor SLAs for BP data creation, updates, and issue resolution
- Drive continuous improvement based on data insights
- Define data standards and validation rules for S/4HANA migration
- Partner with Data Migration teams on cleansing, harmonization, and readiness
- Act as governance authority for Business Partner data during transformation
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, financial, and audit requirements
- Embed controls within MDG workflows
- Enable attribute-based access control (ABAC) aligned to BP data attributes and classification requirements
- Partner with Security and Global Trade on sensitive data handling
- Enable Customer 360 / Supplier 360 use cases through standardized BP data
- Ensure Business Partner data is optimized for analytics consumption in Snowflake, BW, and reporting platforms
- Drive consistency between operational and analytical data models
- Define and execute the MDM maturity roadmap for Business Partner data
- Identify automation opportunities (e.g., duplicate detection, rule-based enrichment)
- Benchmark and evolve governance practices
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Program, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
