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




- Robust 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