Data Excellence Steward Full Time

In this rapidly changing world, an agile supply chain makes the difference for our customer and consumers. With the “Enterprise Planning” project Mars has initiated a new planning concept creating a whole new organisational structure, future fit planning capabilities & processes and underlying best in class systems. It transforms the way Mars SC works: more connected, transparent, faster, agile, customer focused and digital. In short, an exciting human centric, digital transformation journey for the whole Mars Supply Chain.

The (Supply Chain) Center of Excellence – CoE – is the catalyst of this transformation. The team services the European sourcing circle. It drives the transformation through monitoring planning ways of working, provide action driven insights to the business, identify, and support best practices internal and external, build new capabilities, processes, tools, and dashboards, and storing and retrieving the right data with appropriate quality checks.

In the CoE, the Data Excellence Steward has a key role to play in this change as data is the fuel for any future way of working to ensure full and timely transparency of what is going on around us. You will be responsible for ensuring data availability and data quality as part of the CoE.
This sounds easier than it is. To create, access, store and maintain the right data spans from technical infrastructure setup, analysing issues to drive to real root cause, to transformational leadership with a preventive mindset. A strong engagement with all planning stakeholders is important to build trust in the data-driven approach.

What are we looking for?

• Minimum B.S. or BA industrial engineering, supply chain, digital business
• Background in supply chain with a passion for data and systems
• 5+ years of experience working in manufacturing or supply chain working with process and data enhancement as well as systems
• Experience in change management / transformation projects
• Experience with SAP (ERP) and Advanced Planning Systems (preferably E2Open or RapidResponse), powerBI
• Understanding of supply chain data structure incl. master data, transactional data and external unstructured data
• Understanding of agile / Lean / Six Sigma / root cause analysis
• Experience with change management and building engagement
• Ability to present complex analysis in understandable forms to business stakeholders
• Attention to detail and a passion for data accuracy
• Passion for a digital way of working and engaging others on it
• Experience with data analysis preferred
• Fluent in English

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Work with key stakeholders to drive a love for digital, data, and preventive mindset in the Mars culture. By collaborating, a continuous improvement mindset, and answering the “what’s in it for me” to make the value of data quality a part of people’s daily life.
• Assess data issues in collaboration with the Operational Excellence team to define the issue, the root cause, the impact to the business, the resolution as well as the preventive action
• Build measures for data quality. Ensure data quality checks are built, documented, and trained. Drive active reviewed by the business by focussing on business value and ideally prevent them from occurring through process optimization or automation.
• Build a data definition “Wikipedia” in collaboration with the OpEx team to ensure data definitions are recorded in a structural way
• Responsible for technical data assessments and comparison to confirm we have a robust data infrastructure with one version of the truth
• Contribute to the data excellence roadmap by implementing foundational data improvements
• For the data quality rules that are already defined, identify areas for data quality improvement automation, process control and improvement, and/or skills enhancement.
• Support short term data issues to ensure the right data quality rules are in place. Provides insights on issue drivers through analysis to appropriate stakeholders across the organization
• Derives and manages continuous improvement action plans with the respective stakeholders to improve data quality as it relates to supply chain data covering both planning master data and transactional data
• Keep the overview of data-related issues and tickets and following-up on pro-active and preventive resolutions
• Support the data literacy journey in building data definitions and give the data context that allow to follow the context in which data is maintained and used to better understand the business logic applied and needed for excellent execution.  

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.