Apac Master Data, Team Leader

**Your Job**:
Master data is a critical business asset with high impact upon business performance and decision-making. Well managed, high quality master data will enable the company to drive business results, whereas poorly controlled, low-quality data will result in higher costs and missed opportunities.

You will be responsible for delivering master data management services globally, support the implementation of systems in partnership with ITS, lead continuous improvement initiatives and drive global standardization.

Current scope covers the majority of master data types (domains) including product, customer, vendor, material and finance. Scope is unrestricted to expand in the future into any additional master data types where business value is identified.

In your **APAC Master Data Team Leader & Regional Steward (Global Business Services) **role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

**About Us**:
People have looked to Kimberly-Clark brands for more than 150 years and today we're proud to help over a billion people around the world cope, laugh, love and live every day. From the best nappies and baby wipes to the softest tissues, to the best supplies for business, we are constantly searching for new ways to make life better for our consumers, our customers and our planet.

Our leading consumer brands like the Kleenex, Huggies, VIVA, U by Kotex, Poise, Depend brands improve the lives of people around the world. Kimberly-Clark proudly leads the way in providing better care for a better world.
- Kimberly-Clark proudly leads the way in providing better care for a better world. _

**_Led by Purpose. Driven by You_**

**Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities**:
**Lead and develop a team of master data management professionals responsible for daily creation and maintenance of master data records, global process standardization and automation. Maintain stable operations ensuring high master data quality, excellent process performance and compliance with internal control, SOX Controls, ARCHER, global standard, business rules and regulation. Become a global SME for the domain his/her team is responsible for.**

**Support the region as SME across all the domains**:

- Lead multi-domain projects coordinating with appropriate teams required support.

**Drive value creation supporting the business through**:

- Positively influence the business by leading training to internal customers, CI projects or leveraging data, analytics and actionable insights to deliver quantifiable results.
- Generate consistency, efficiency, and productivity improvements by leveraging process improvement, standardization and automation to generate white space.
- Engage regional stakeholders to drive awareness and identification of business use case scenarios that demonstrate the importance and ROI of sustained quality master data.

**Work in partnership with ITS and the business teams to implement new master data technologies that enhance process efficiency and drive effective master data quality**:

- Represent the domain and the region for global data governance council to ensure global consistency.
- Take ownership of issues and project tasks to drive them to completion ensuring that business processes are not disrupted by changes.
- Lead large projects internal to the master data team for a single domain.

**Essential Requirements**:
**Leadership Skills**:

- Organizational and management skills.
- Strong ability to communicate with multiple organizational levels and cultures.
- Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Results oriented and customer focus.
- Superior attention to detail.
- Consistently demonstrate the KC leadership behaviors (Build Talent, Build Trust, Make Decisions, Think Customer, Win Consistently, Continuously Improve).

**Technical and Business Skills**:

- Clear understanding of Master Data activities and relationship with business.
- Expert in the principles, policies and practices of master data process and quality management.
- CI/LEAN experience
- Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency.
- Advanced SAP user.
- Knowledge of Power BI, Macro and SAP scripting will be an advantage.

Essential Skills:

- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or Engineering or related field.
- 5 years of relevant experience.
- B2 or C1 English level. Other regional languages will be an advantage (Mandarin Chinese, Korean).

**About You**:
You’re driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Fle