Master Data Team Leader

**Your Job**

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

This is a key role within the FP&A COE, supporting the IFP finance leadership. The incumbent will be responsible for providing reliable and insightful reporting, leading the forecasting process, and developing analysis about the performance and outlook of the business and the broader market environment. This role will demonstrate creativity and ability to challenge the status quo to improve processes to be more effective but also more efficient to deliver outcomes that will drive business results.

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

The current scope covers the majority of master data types (domains), including product, customer, vendor, material, and finance. The scope is unrestricted and may expand in the future to include additional master data types where business value is identified.

** Key Accountabilities and Business Priorities**
- 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.
- Support the region as SME across all the domains:
1) Lead multi-domain projects coordinating with appropriate teams required support.
- Drive value creation supporting the business through:
1) Positively influence the business by leading training to internal customers, CI projects or leveraging data, analytics and actionable insights to deliver quantifiable results.

2) Generate consistency, efficiency, and productivity improvements by leveraging process improvement, standardization and automation to generate white space.

3) 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.

**About Us**

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth, and impact. We’re founded on 151 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform - so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

**About You**

You 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 Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
**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.