Sap Mdg

Nexiva•Tulsa, OK

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The SAP MDG Lead owns the SAP master data governance capability and is responsible for establishing the standards, workflows, quality controls, stewardship model, and operating discipline required for trusted SAP data. This role focuses on building scalable governance around material, customer, vendor, finance, product, BOM, routing, and related master data domains. The position involves close collaboration with various departments including Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Sales, Operations, Teamcenter/PLM, SAP COE, AMS, and business data owners. The scope of the process includes material master governance and data quality, customer and vendor master governance, product structure, BOM, routing, and engineering data dependencies, finance master data (cost centers, profit centers, GL accounts, controlling objects), and the SAP MDG roadmap, workflows, validations, roles, and stewardship model. Additionally, it covers data standards, data ownership, quality dashboards, cleansing initiatives, and integration with Teamcenter, SAP S/4HANA, analytics, and future plant rollouts.

Requirements

7+ years SAP master data, SAP MDG, data governance, SAP functional data experience.
Strong understanding of SAP master data impacts across business processes.
Experience defining data standards, workflows, data ownership, and data quality controls.
Ability to work across business functions and translate data issues into process and system impacts.
Strong analytical, documentation, communication, and governance skills.

Responsibilities

Establish and maintain SAP master data governance policies, standards, ownership models, and approval workflows.
Partner with business data owners and data stewards to define data ownership, decision rights, and remediation actions.
Create clear standards for critical SAP fields, naming conventions, mandatory attributes, lifecycle states, and data quality rules.
Help create a practical data governance council or operating cadence focused on SAP master data decisions and escalations.
Own SAP MDG functional design, governance workflows, validation rules, change requests, roles, and integration points.
Be responsible for implementing SAP MDG, including coordination across business, functional, technical, and AMS teams.
Partner with technical teams and AMS to support MDG configuration, enhancements, reporting, and workflow improvements.
Ensure MDG design supports CLIENT manufacturing processes, product complexity, plant rollouts, and business scalability.
Challenge custom or manual data governance approaches that undermine long-term data quality or process discipline.
Define and monitor data quality KPIs across master data domains.
Lead data cleansing, duplicate reduction, field completion, and master data remediation initiatives.
Partner with process leads to identify how poor data causes business defects in QTI, FTP, EWM, PTP, and RTR.
Support data readiness activities for future plant rollouts, stabilization initiatives, analytics, and process transformation.
Maintain data standards, governance procedures, data definitions, field ownership documents, and training materials.
Train data stewards and business users on governance processes, approval workflows, data quality expectations, and issue escalation.
Mentor data analysts and stewards to build internal master data capability.
Ensure documentation and standards remain current as SAP processes and organizational structures evolve.