For nearly 150 years, Watts Water Technologies has been a leader in residential and commercial water products and solutions. Being a $2b in revenue public company, Watts continues to be at the forefront of innovation and addressing demands and challenges in safety & regulations, energy efficiency and water conservation.
Watts will embark on a significant multi-year transformation endeavor – a major ERP implementation to SAP S/4. Establishing master data integrity and a solid governance framework is one of the key success factors. We are seeking a highly motivated, dedicated and detail-oriented individual to join our team as a Master Data Manager for the new SAP S/4 ERP program. The mission of this highly visible role is to define and implement master data strategies, policies, controls, and programs to ensure the enterprise data is accurate, complete, secure, and reliable.
This is a remote role with business travel required up to 50% to the corporate headquarters in North Andover, Massachusetts to allow for development, collaboration, and strategizing on the Watts IT ERP team!
You Will:
Lead the Master Data workstream in the SAP S/4 ERP Program to ensure project milestones and goals are met.
Lead the Master Data workstream team to support all aspects of an SAP S/4 implementation life cycle from requirements gathering, design, build, testing to deployment as well as data migration.
Lead a cross-functional team to clean up master data from the legacy system prior to data migration.
Collaborate with strategic business groups and IT to identify opportunities for business process improvement and assist in the implementation.
Envision, align, and lead cross-functionally all aspects of data policy deployment and related business processes.
Develops the long-term vision for data governance quality processes, and policies across the program by leveraging industry best practices.
Applies risk-based approaches to data governance and data management to mitigate program risk.
Manage onshore/offshore resources as well as external contractors and consultants.
Drives continuous improvements to procedures and operations with a focus on high quality that meets or exceeds requirements and expectations.
You Have:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Engineering or related field
10+ years of experience with data governance, data quality and data management (SAP ECC or S/4 a plus)
5+ years of project management experience working closely with both business and IT resources.
5+ years of experience acting as a SME on MDM implementations preferably in a manufacturing environment.
Demonstrated experience in leading Master Data for a major ERP implementation (SAP ECC or S/4 a plus)
Strong understanding of a manufacturing environment and direct relationship to Master Data
Demonstrated experience developing business requirements and business cases for data and ability to distill complex business requirements, and then effectively communicate those to technical resources.
Preferred Qualifications:
Significant industry experience with SAP and other ERP products with a focus on data management and data governance.
Hands-on experience building and shaping data governance practices including policy, process, and daily execution activities.
Ability to rationalize existing vocabularies to help break down silos and establish a common business vocabulary.
Ability to partner and influence business & IT stakeholders at various organizational levels.
Experience loading data into SAP using Migration Cockpit or other means.
Knowledge of SAP Data Structures/Tables.
Solid change management skills
Ability to understand organizational data requirements and define, clearly articulate, and drive plan to provide accurate master data that meets a manufacturing firm’s objectives.
Ability to identify the root cause of data quality issues and lead teams of technical and business resources to resolve.
Solid business acumen and ERP knowledge with manufacturing experience
Excellent problem-solving skills with strong track record of producing analytic insight that has led to significant data quality improvements.
Very strong oral and written communications skills
What’s In It For You:
People-First Culture – Enriching and caring for people is at the core of who we are; this includes our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy, and providing our employees with meaningful career growth opportunities, a positive and safe work environment, and affirmation that they are heard, valued, and respected.
401K Plan
Flexible PTO & Generous Paid Holidays
Educational Assistance
Variety of Medical plan options – choose the one that is right for you!
Sustainability – One of Newsweek’s Top 400 of “America’s Most Responsible Companies” for sustainability performance, three years running.
Physical Requirements:
While performing the responsibilities of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, talk, and/or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, sit, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. You must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include: close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environments:
Work in both office and manufacturing environment. May occasionally be required to perform job responsibilities outside the typical office setting.
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Watts is committed to equal employment opportunity. We follow a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, genetic disposition or carrier status, marital status, military or veteran status, minorities, or any other category protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the obligations of state and federal law, Watts will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any employee who needs a reasonable accommodation should contact Human Resources.
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