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Responsibilities:
Leadership Responsibilities
People Leadership & Operations
Lead, coach, and support teams across MDM and PLM by ensuring clear goals, balanced workloads, solid collaboration, and continuous capability development.
Enterprise Data technical leadership
Oversee the architecture, configuration, and maintenance of enterprise PLM and MDM platforms. Drive system upgrade projects, provide strategic guidance to data migration topics, Architect integration workflow topics (eg. SAP, Legacy systems, etc.,) and CAD tools.
Delivery steering across MDM and PLM teams
Coordinate delivery priorities, dependencies, risks, timelines, and stakeholder expectations across multiple technology areas while ensuring predictable execution and measurable business outcomes.
Stakeholder and business alignment
Act as a bridge between business stakeholders, global IT teams, project managers, product owners, and technical teams to translate business needs into feasible, scalable, and value-driven digital solutions.




Performance development and capability building
Provide structured feedback, mentoring, onboarding support, skill development plans, and career guidance to strengthen both technical and behavioural capabilities within the team.
Delivery and governance
Establish and enforce delivery governance across PLM and MDM teams, including quality reviews, documentation standards, solution validation, release readiness, risk tracking, and operational handover.
Ensure that implementations are business-focused, technically sound, scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture, data governance, and platform standards.
Qualifications:
Bachelor of Engineering (any discipline) with 12+ years of relevant experience.
Minimum of 7–10 years of experience in Data management or enterprise PLM systems, with at least 3–5 years in a formal people leadership or team management role.
Technical Expertise: Proven, hands-on exper

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