Qualifications Required
• 15+ years in enterprise master data management, with at least 8 years in SAP master data and 5+ years leading global teams.
• Deep hands-on SAP MDG expertise across multiple domains — data modeling, workflow, BRF+, DRF replication, and consolidation and mass processing.
• Proven master data leadership on at least two global S/4HANA programs, including harmonization across heterogeneous legacy ERPs.
• Heavy industry line-of-business experience is required — manufacturing, industrial equipment, water, energy, process, or engineered products. Specifically, demonstrated command of material master complexity across engineering and manufacturing views, multi-level BOMs and routings, variant and configurable products, spare and service parts catalogs, equipment and functional location hierarchies, and plant-level data
• Demonstrated ownership of a governance model that survived contact with the business — named owners, operating cadence, enforced standards, and published KPIs




• Solid functional understanding of how master data drives downstream process outcomes in planning, procurement, manufacturing, service, and finance
• Experience with data quality tooling, profiling, and remediation at scale
• Executive presence to arbitrate harmonization disputes between segment leaders and make the standardization call stick. Preferred
• SAP Datasphere, Signavio process mining, or comparable analytics used to expose data-driven process failure.
• Master data implications of installed-base and aftermarket service models.
• Experience onboarding acquisitions onto a common master data standard.
• Classification, taxonomy, and catalog management for large materials portfolios.
• Familiarity with regulatory and trade compliance data requirements in an industrial context.

📌 Senior Manager — SAP Master Data Management Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Xylem
📍 Bengaluru