SAP Data Management Specialist

Working at Cargill is an opportunity to thrive – a place to develop your career to the fullest while engaging in meaningful work that makes a positive impact around the globe. You will be proud to work for a company with a strong history of ethics and a purpose of nourishing people. We offer a diverse, supportive environment where you will grow personally and professionally as you learn from some of the most talented people in your field. We combine 153 years of experience with new technologies and insights to serve as a trusted partner for food, agriculture, financial and industrial customers.

In 2014 we established the headquarters for our European shared business services center in Bulgaria. Our center – Cargill Business Services Sofia, who is rapidly growing, won the award for Shared Service Centre of the Year for both 2017 and 2018.

SAP DATA MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
Position summary
This position will work across the Food Ingredient & Bio-Industrial (FIBI) Enterprise providing Master Data stewardship and leading the Master Data efforts as part of Enterprise/Business Projects. The role will actively partner with the Businesses, Functions and Global IT to define Data scope, lead and organize the resources, and ensure exceptional project delivery.

The role will also provide leadership in building our data strategies and growing our data management capabilities. The role will help build and execute Data solutions, implement improvement opportunities and provide leadership in executing our data strategies. The role requires an individual skilled in pro-ject management and leading teams, capable to support known/confirmed Enterprise/Business Pro-jects across FIBI Enterprise landscape by embedding our Design Model principles, providing Master Data stewardship and leading the Master Data efforts while safeguarding FIBI businesses Steady State needs.
This will be a temporary role for approximately 36 months, or the duration of the SAP ERP Deployment programs in the EMEA region.

Major Tasks
Responsible for leading the Data workstreams across Enterprise/Business projects;
Responsible for defining project objectives, defining scope, monitoring project metrics, advising on data conversion activities, identifying risks and issues and ensuring mitigation plans are in place and/or implemented;
Responsible for leading and providing coaching to the Data team-members across the Enterprise, as well as ensuring alignment on Data standards, processes, and design;
Regularly measures and monitors project progress to identify variances from the plan and make needed corrections for implementation;
Continuously assess SAP TC2 Implementations, System Migrations and/or Data standardization initiatives across EMEA region;
Promote/Reinforce FIBI Data Governance Models across the region / Enterprises;
Ensure the consistent use of master data attributes across multiple businesses (globally). Partner with business stakeholders to resolve fragmentation or issues with data attribute use and defini-tion;
Get deeper into FIBI businesses and SAP TC2 Template, including all data elements required throughout all phases of implementation/process integration activities for TC2 instance;
Accountable to Define, own, align, Implement and maintain Rulebooks/Playbooks for Data objects;
Create, follow and enforce processes that ensure data integrity;
Communication and coordination across the Businesses and Shared Services on the application of data definitions, standards and usage.

Qualifications & Skills
5+ years of experience across Data Management, Data Analytics and/or Infor-mation Technology;
3+ years of large Project experience (i.e. System Implementations, Capital Spend projects);
Bachelor’s Degree;
ERP experience (as a user or implementation project team member);
Experience with reporting tools (i.e. Tableau, PowerBI, Alteryx);
SAP and/or Salesforce.com experience;
Demonstrated strong project management skills and analytical skills;
Demonstrated ability to lead and drive to decisions in ambiguous situations;
Demonstrated ability to break down complex issues;
Demonstrated ability to trouble-shoot and problem solve data and system related issues;
Previous experience leading, organizing, and presenting within groups;
Demonstrated behaviors of a curious, logical thinker and a strong systems aptitude.