MDM Lead

Responsibilities

• Serve as the enterprise Data Steward for Customer, Vendor, and Product master data domains.
• Establish governance structures, stewardship processes, ownership models, standards, and SLAs.
• Drive business accountability for data quality, governance, and day-to-day stewardship.
• Improve MDM maturity and reduce critical master data issues.
• Own Hussmann’s Parts/Product Master strategy from design through steady-state operations.
• Define golden record standards, hierarchies, classifications, and survivorship rules.
• Support digital thread initiatives through BOM alignment across Engineering, Manufacturing, and Service.
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure trusted master data supports transactions, pricing, warranty, service, and analytics.
• Consolidate fragmented data across ERP, PLM, CRM, and PIM systems into a trusted enterprise source.
• Develop and execute a multi-domain MDM roadmap aligned to business priorities.
• Establish and track data quality KPIs including completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and duplicate reduction.
• Drive root-cause remediation within source systems through partnership with ERP, CRM, Engineering, and Data teams.
• Ensure master data is AI-ready through strong lineage, quality, governance, and completeness.
• Lead adoption and optimization of Informatica MDM, IDQ, Cloud Data Quality, and CLAIRE capabilities.
• Establish scalable integration patterns, governance standards, and reusable frameworks.
• Partner with EBS leaders to embed MDM into enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Lead MDM teams, vendors, and partners while driving accountability, productivity, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 12+ years of progressive IT experience, including 5+ years in leadership.
• 5+ years leading MDM, Data Governance, or Data Quality programs, including Informatica implementations.
• Hands-on expertise with Informatica IDMC/MDM, IDQ, Cloud Data Quality, and CLAIRE-assisted matching preferred.
• Experience leading Product/Parts, Customer, or Vendor master data programs in manufacturing, industrial, or distribution environments.
• Experience integrating MDM with ERP, CRM, PLM, and cloud platforms.
• Strong stakeholder management, organizational change, vendor management, and executive communication skills.