Director- SAP S/4HANA MDG

Role:- Director- SAP S/4HANA MDG
Location:- Oakbrook Terrace, IL (Hybrid/Travel/Onsite)

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Supply Chain, or related discipline.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in Data Management, Data Platforms, Master Data Management, or Enterprise Information Management
• 5+ years leading data platform or MDM organizations.
• Strong expertise in SAP Master Data structures and business processes.
• Hands-on experience implementing and operating SAP MDG and/or SimpleMDG.
• Experience leading enterprise data quality initiatives.
• Experience enabling governance operating models and stewardship programs through platform capabilities
• Strong understanding of ERP transformation programs.
• Experience managing enterprise-scale cross-functional initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

The ideal candidate demonstrates strong expertise in:

• Enterprise Data Platform governance, including certified data assets, governed consumption layers, platform standards, controls, and auditability.
• Data product and certified consumption governance, including ownership visibility, certification practices, guardrails, and governance checkpoints across data products and analytics use cases.
• Metadata, catalog, lineage, and data intelligence capabilities, including traceability, classification, discovery, and transparency across source systems, EDP, data products, and consumption layers.
• Data quality monitoring and control frameworks, including profiling, dashboards, scorecards, preventative controls, issue visibility, and remediation tracking.
• SAP, SimpleMDG/SAP MDG, and master data platform enablement, including integration across SAP, EDP, enterprise applications, analytics platforms, and downstream consumption layers.
• Enterprise integration and lifecycle governance, including source-to-consumption data flows, integration patterns, retention, archiving, compliance, and platform controls.
• Governance-enabling tooling and enterprise transformation, including workflow automation, bots, agents, metadata/catalog tools, lineage tools, data quality platforms, ERP transformation, and enterprise-scale data platform change.
• Critical enterprise data domains and operating models, including supply chain, customer, commercial, and other core data domains, with clear distinction between business-owned governance decisions and DT-owned platform enablement.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Pragmatic execution, solves complex business and data problems and turns governance concepts into measurable results.
• Business process orientation, understands how trusted data supports operational execution, performance, analytics, and decision-making.
• Enterprise mindset, connects platform governance, certified data consumption, and data quality to business outcomes and transformation priorities.
• Influential leadership, builds alignment across Business Transformation, Digital Technology, Data Product Owners, architects, and senior stakeholders.
• Change and adoption focus, drives practical adoption of governance standards, platform controls, tooling, and ways of working.
• Continuous improvement discipline, improves data quality, platform reliability, governance effectiveness, and operational efficiency.