Data Steward – Operations

Be part of something bigger!

As the world and the way people live is changing, we at Bekaert believe it’s our responsibility to contribute to finding new solutions for the future. With a 140+ year old heritage of excellence, innovation, and a future-focused mindset, we strive to create value for our customers and society. We aim to do this through innovative solutions and sustainable practices. We are committed to pushing the boundaries of steel wire transformation and coatings whilst also leveraging our expertise to develop innovative solutions with new materials and services in a safe, smart, and sustainable way. Our focus extends to markets such as new mobility, low-carbon construction, and green energy.

As a dynamic and growing company with over 24 000 employees worldwide, 75 nationalities, a retention rate above 90% and almost € 5.3 billion in combined revenue in 2023, we are looking for someone like you to join our team as we continue to shape a safer, more efficient, and connected world

II. Purpose of the Job

Bekaert is leading transformation program to enhance the digital experience end-to-end that drive impact across multiple channels. Bekaert’s Operations are focusing to improve relative cost position & cash utilization in manufacturing and supply chain.

At Bekaert, we cherish our (Master) Data and hence invest in effective Master Data Management and Data Governance practices to support us in achieving our digital ambitions. To establish a sustained enterprise wide (Master) Data Management and Data Governance approach in co-drive with functions and businesses, the Advanced Digital Solutions (ADS) organization will strengthen the capability with Data and Information Experts/Architects with a product group/domain focus.

Your task as Data Steward for Operations is to ensure good quality master data and governance practices to support Bekaert digital roadmap. Identify and resolve master data issues in the process and resolve business pain points. As Data steward you will be closely co-ordinating with business users and project stakeholders for master data requirements in the project and continuous improvement of the data quality and governance.

Your Impact

ADS Operations MDM domain which responsible for data design, maintenance and governance of master data of the Bekaert organization encompasses all the master data objects related to production execution, quality management, planning and plant maintenance. This role of Global Master Data Steward will be responsible for stewardship role covering all the data services, but not limited to designing, analysing, maintaining and governing master data needs of the organization as per business and digital strategy of Bekaert.

• Support data initiatives and projects under digital journey: Bekaert is going through digital transformation on digital manufacturing and digital supply chain, connected applications and data integration across connected processes. Underlying master data quality and data model is necessary foundation to build sustainable roadmap. Understanding business processes coupled with master data in SAP and connected applications to build harmonized data structure and robust data pipeline is key.
• Maximize value derived from Master data analytics: Understand data needs of business stakeholders coupled with process problems, identify the gaps and make necessary reporting to generate value using the organization's data assets, that satisfy reporting requirements and support faster decision making.
• Enable effective data management and governance: Govern each master data template for various business units with valid business rules and data framework. Support and assist in defining data processes, setting up data quality rules, and validating data structures. Work closely with different plant data admins to define right master data management practices.
• Support Data migration Support various data migration and implementation projects for mass maintenance activities of master data, validating data records, and ensure data quality in rollouts across various business units. Supporting periodic data maintenance, change and clean-up activities as needed.
• Assist in data strategy: Assist and support in preparing data road map with changing business dynamics and requirements, preparing sustainable data (master) model, standardize and simplify data maintenance process and align with digital road map of Bekaert Data journey.
• Data quality framework: Set and Support data quality framework for continuous improvement of master data quality of operations domain, analyse the impact of poor-quality data, and bring in improvement with help of tools and techniques in profiling, standardization and harmonization of the data. Set up single source of truth.

Skills & Competencies

• Business domain knowledge of manufacturing and quality process is must with data/content and process understanding in Operations, including manufacturing, end to end supply chain, engineering, etc.
• Good understanding of SAP Manufacturing and quality process, with in-depth understanding of underlying master data and it’s realtion to the business processes. SAP data design, maintenance and support master data objects in PP and QM module. ( SAP - PP & QM skills.)
• Well conversant with maintenance of manufacturing & planning master data such as, BOM, Recipe, Routing, classification, Process Instriction characteristics, and Variant Configuration in completx manufacturing environment set up.
• Proven experience of workign in data management (master) and governance function, with hand’s on working on any enterprise MDM tool, setting up Data rules and Data quality & framework.
• Expertise in working on mass scale data creation/ update in SAP, working on data migration and data clean-up drives, including working with LSMW.
• Effective conceptualization, pattern recognition and teaming skills. Experience in working with geographically distributed team, acting as data steward protecting data assets and interest of the organization in validating and governing the master data practices and processes.
• Experinece of working with object dependencies and variant configiration set-up in manufacturing domain will be added advantage

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor or Master degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent through experience in the process domain with demonstrated affinity for master data, data governance and/or analytics.
• 10+ years of overall experience, 5+ years progressive work experience in a similar role related to the manufacturing industry and master data practices.
• Experience of manufacturing or supply chain
• Experience of workign with globally distributed teams and partners.

Be bold and take the leap!

We're looking for individuals who are not afraid to take risks and explore new ideas. If you are passionate about personal growth and bringing your authentic self to work, we want you on our team! At Bekaert, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. To learn more about us and our exciting career opportunities, visit Bekaert Careers