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Senior. Specialist, Technical Product Management The Opportunity
• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's’ IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy. A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.
Role Overview The SAP MDG (Master Data Governance) Technology Engineer will be responsible for designing and building the MDG solution. You will collaborate across all levels of organization, from senior management to tactical execution- to understand master data management needs and improvements.
Working in a matrixed environment, you will support all aspects of the design, development, training and delivery of easy-to-use data & process capabilities to Get Data Clean and Keep Data Clean. You will cultivate an environment that generates innovative ideas, and you will execute them in partnership with internal business partners, data stewards, IT colleagues, and outside vendors. You will standardize key performance indicators, automate insight generation, and deliver relevant, meaningful recommendations.
The insights will provide better visibility to our asset and finance master data business processes and IT systems landscape, as well as identifying root causes to improve data quality and process resiliency.
What will you do in this role
• Assist in the implementation and support of SAP MDG solutions, including design, configuration and testing.
• Provide functional expertise and participate in design activities and a gap analysis prior to the implementation.
• Responsible for finishing the tasks assigned and for interacting with business users/functional leads for requirement gathering and providing timely updates on progress made.
• Visualize the master data quality and analyzing results, using statistical techniques where possible/needed.
• Collaborate with business, platform, data enablement, and IT teams to standardize SAP MDG solution and cross-train teams to use them.
Your Daily Activities include, but are not limited to:
• Management - Responsible for design and implementation of strategic, aligned, and compliant solutions to support business initiatives. Support management vision, strategy, and policy for building a high-performance engagement model with business partners.
• Process and Insight - Realize core sustainable processes and enablers of successful delivery. Practice and foster a mindset of leveraging analytics to gain insights and for data-focused decision making.
• Relationships - Build exceptional relationships with stakeholders which are focused on meeting the business needs and most value for investments.
• Organizational Change Management – Demonstrate and drive high quality change management practices with clients and stakeholders while implementing solutions that are sustainable. Be a role model of management capabilities and behaviors.
• Global - Ensure that the solutions are aligned IT platforms and supports business strategy.
• Diversity - Respect diversity on teams, different perspectives, ideas, knowledge while working towards a common goal.
What should you have
• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline
Required Skills
• Experience: Minimum of 8 years in SAP MDG techno-functional roles.
• MDG Expertise: Hands-on experience in SAP MDG-M (Material Master) with at least two end-to-end implementations.
• S/4HANA & MDG: Strong experience with SAP MDG on S/4HANA, including master data setup and governance.
• Integration: Proven experience in inbound/outbound integrations using IDOCs, SOA services, and interfaces.
• Data Modeling & UI: Ability to design and enhance custom data models, UI configurations, validations, and derivations.
• Workflow & Rules: Strong working knowledge of SAP Workflow, BRF+, and BADIs.
• Data Management: Expertise in data replication, MDG error handling, and governance processes.
• Functional Knowledge: Good understanding of Materials Management (MM) processes.
• Technical Depth: In-depth understanding of SAP MDG architecture (technical and functional).
• System Landscape: Experience in highly customized SAP environments and integration with non-SAP systems.
Primary Skills
• Industry Experience: Experience in pharmaceutical or technology industries, with strong data governance exposure.
• Analytical Capability: Ability to evaluate complex processes and synthesize data into actionable insights.
• Ownership & Innovation: Proven self-starter with a focus on quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Stakeholder Management: Strong interpersonal, influencing, and negotiation skills across business and IT.
• Global Collaboration: Experience working across cross-functional, regional, and global teams.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage at all organizational levels.
• Team Orientation: Strong collaborative mindset, focused on team success and diversity.
Who we are We are known as well-known org Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
What we look for Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
Required Skills: Asset Management, Benefits Management, Business Initiatives, Computer Science, Data Governance, Data Management, Global Team Collaboration, Management System Development, Master Data Management (MDM), Product Management, Requirements Management, SAP Master Data Management, SAP Systems Integration, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs, Tactical Execution, Team Orientation Preferred Skills:
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Requisition ID:R409974