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About the Role
Improve RS Group performance by enhancing product data governance and management, focusing on productivity, cost, and customer service improvements to achieve strategic aims and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Own the Enterprise Data Model for product data, including reviewing and approving changes.
- Define and lead the product data governance approach, ensuring adherence to standards across all regions and functions.
- Collaborate with Global Process Owners and stakeholders to define the future vision for Product Data and its integration with business processes.
- Influence future design and data capabilities to meet best practice standards for data governance and maintenance.
- Maintain an enterprise view of the Product Data landscape, identifying and approving deviations from the standard model.
- Act as a source of best practice, driving improvements in data and solution design and quality.
- Identify opportunities for data cleansing, propose effective cleansing mechanisms, and implement processes to maintain data integrity.
- Influence and align multiple stakeholders to establish consistent and efficient product data processes aligned with business needs.
- Lead a team of data experts to provide data governance and advice for strategic projects and BAU activities.
- Inspire colleagues across all levels to adopt an end-to-end mindset for Product Data.
- Collaborate with other GDOs to ensure end-to-end integration, data consistency, and improvements.
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience completing a technical transformation program with significant end-to-end data transformation.
- Comprehensive understanding of Information Architecture principles in a complex business.
- Experience defining an Enterprise Data vision and communicating it clearly across all organizational levels.
- Experience working with third-party product suppliers.
- Comprehensive leadership of diverse regional and functional teams in a matrix structure.
- Ability to simplify and strategically analyze complex problems, processes, or projects.
- Effective communication, influencing, and alignment skills with diverse senior stakeholders.
- Extensive experience and knowledge of business operations in a complex, global business, including finance and outsourced functions.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience managing conflicting priorities.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills, demonstrating concise and structured thought.
- Cultural sensitivity and significant experience working in a global environment.
Skills
- Product lifecycle management
- SAP 4
- Master Data Management platform
Location
- Hybrid (Remote and European Offices)
- Global Travel
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Market competitive base salaries
- Short-term incentive program
- Pension/retirement
- Life assurance
- Salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
- Medical plans
- Health screening
- Critical illness insurance
- Disability insurance
- Holiday / paid time off
- Employee assistance programme
- Discounted gym/health club membership
- Transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing)
- Onsite catering/lunch vouchers
- Retail discounts
- Global recognition programme (Spotlight)
About the Company
- RS is a high-service global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, enabling them to operate efficiently and sustainably.
- Operates in 33 markets, stocking over 875,000 industrial and specialist products, with an additional five million sourced from over 2,500 suppliers.
- Supports customers across the industrial lifecycle of designing, building, and maintaining equipment and operations.
- Enhances customer experience through a tailored service model, leveraging efficient physical, digital, and process infrastructure sustainably.
- Combines a technically led and digitally enabled approach with an exceptional team of experts.
- Purpose: making amazing happen for a better world, focusing on delivering results for people, planet, and profit.