Supply Chain Master Data Specialist

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 300 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ 11,000 people and operate in more than 55 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our

Hybrid Work Model


**Job Description**:
POSITION PURPOSE

The Supply Chain Master Data Specialist combines two areas of responsibility:

- Owning and maintaining high quality master data records that describe the supply chain of corporate divisions, while establishing metrics to improve the quality of this data.
- Collaborating with local corporate teams in different countries, sharing knowledge and establishing best practices.

SCOPE

Number of Countries: Global

MEASURES
- Completeness and quality of master data sets for different regions and countries
- Enablement of local teams throughout the Company

MAJOR / KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Supply Chain Master Data Maintenance:

- Own and maintain sets of supply chain master data for global corporate operations
- Use the central location service and other sources of information to improve existing master data records
- Use asset tracking results to discover new supply chain locations and relationships
- Identify and evaluate external sources of data
- Define quality metrics and monitor the quality of master data

Be an ambassador and trusted advisor on supply chain master data:

- Work with local teams that need quality master data in their projects
- Explain and demo best practices
- Train and temporarily embed with local teams
- Collect feedback for improving data sources, software, or process

CHALLENGES / PROBLEM SOLVING
- Have the mindset of a researcher, both for individual master data records that are unclear, and for finding the best practices for scaling to a million records

AUTHORITY / DECISION MAKING
- Own the master data
- Work out on quality metrics and process improvements
- Drive best practice adoption in a complex stakeholder environment

KEY CONTACTS
- Members of supply chain and business unit teams in countries around the world
- Digital engineering, UX, implementation and support teams

External:

- Customer master data teams

QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven attention to detail when maintaining data & feeling responsible for high quality data
- Experience analyzing data quality
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, statistics, one of the sciences, or business

Desirable Qualifications:

- Experience as end-user of enterprise software
- Experience with geographical information systems (maps and beyond)
- Experience in using master data management modules in ERP or SCM systems
- Experience working with large data sets
- Technical: should be able to use analytics tools and write some code or analyze data through SQL (though you don’t need to be an engineer)
- Experience as a software development, consultant, or analyst team in supply chain management

EXPERIENCE
- Ideally experience as a specialist, technical analyst, quality or support team member in software development or supply chain operations
- We do consider applicants right out of school

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
- Passion to build an outstanding supply chain data base
- Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Comfortable with changing situations and challenging goals
- Hold your own in debates with software engineers
- Good communication skills
- Comfortable with demonstrating systems and best practices to an audience of 10+

Preferred Education

Bachelors

Preferred Level of Work Experience

1 - 3 years

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.