Product MDM Lead

Job Description

The Product MDM Lead is accountable for defining, governing, and evolving enterprise Product Master Data Management capabilities and standards, ensuring Product master data is trusted, harmonized, and fit for purpose across business processes, regulatory use cases, analytics, AI-enabled solutions, and enterprise integrations.

The role leads Product MDM governance, hierarchy and lifecycle management, data quality, and the expansion of mastering into Molecules and Competitor Products. It plays a key leadership role in migrating the Product Hub to Informatica IDMC and in moving Product MDM toward intelligent, exception-based management , using AI and automation while maintaining appropriate human oversight.

Key Responsibilities

Define Product Master Data Standards and Requirements

- Define master data requirements for Products, Molecules, Competitor Products and hierarchies
- Maintain the canonical Product data model , definitions, rules, and ownership
- Ensure metadata, lineage, and traceability make Product data AI-ready

Lead Product MDM Data Quality, Cleanup and Remediation

- Lead cleanup and harmonization, fixing root causes rather than one-off cleansing
- Establish data quality rules, monitoring, KPIs, and exception management
- Apply AI-assisted profiling, anomaly detection, and matching with human validation

Govern Product Lifecycle, Hierarchies, Molecules and Competitor Products

- Govern Product creation, change, and discontinuation, plus hierarchies and taxonomies
- Lead expansion to Molecules and Competitor Products , including crosswalks and identifiers
- Use AI-assisted classification and semantic matching to harmonize external datasets

Lead Product Hub Modernization and IDMC Migration

- Shape the design, testing, and implementation of the Product Hub on Informatica IDMC
- Define acceptance criteria and lead mapping, reconciliation, UAT, and cutover
- Leverage IDMC AI and automation and embed controls within the platform

Drive Integration, Adoption and Business Value

- Establish Product Master as the authoritative source for governed Product data
- Define integration standards and data contracts for APIs, events, and data products
- Track adoption, retiring local repositories, and measure quality and business impact

Drive AI and Intelligent Automation Across Product MDM

- Develop an AI and automation roadmap aligned to the enterprise data and AI strategy
- Automate repetitive stewardship tasks such as validation, mapping, and routing
- Use generative and agentic AI to detect exceptions and recommend remediation
- Ensure Responsible AI controls, including human oversight and auditability

Lead Product MDM Governance and Change Management

- Establish clear decision rights and facilitate Product governance forums
- Lead the shift to automation and exception-based stewardship
- Act as escalation point for cross-functional Product Master issues

Qualifications

Required

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Data Management, Computer Science, or related field
- Significant experience in MDM, Product Data Management, or Data Governance
- Strong knowledge of matching, survivorship, golden records, and stewardship
- Enterprise MDM platform experience, ideally Informatica IDMC
- Strong stakeholder management and change-management skills

Preferred

- Experience in pharma or life sciences ; knowledge of IDMP is advantageous
- Experience leading Product harmonization or MDM migration programs
- Experience applying AI or intelligent automation to MDM in production
- Understanding of Responsible AI and human-in-the-loop controls

Our Offer

- Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
- Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
- Pension and health (Canadian Medical) contributions
- Internal reward system plus referral program
- 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
- Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport card, Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora discount programs
- Up-to-date laptop and iPhone, parking in the garage, showers, refreshments
- Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more

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Required Skills:
Communication, Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Transformation, Facilitation, Master Data Management (MDM), Product Data Management (PDM), Stakeholder Management

Preferred Skills:
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, ISO IDMP, Pharmaceutical Industry, Regulated Industries

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Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:
Yes

Travel Requirements:
10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid

Shift:
Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:
No

Hazardous Material(s):
N/A

Job Posting End Date:
11/10/2026
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