Senior Manager, Master Data Governance - Data Lead

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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.   Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.   We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description   We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join us as a Senior Manager, Master Data Governance - Data Lead, across the Source to Settle (STS) business process in Gilead to develop a long-term roadmap and implementation plan for the deployment of SAP master data management activities within Gilead and its associated affiliates.   This position will manage Data Requirements and Governance related to our business operations across STS. Candidate will play a key role ensuring success in SAP implementation, sustainment, and optimization by collaborating cross-functionally with program sponsors, process owners, and IT. Additionally, the STS Data Lead will support projects for continuous improvement and optimization in business processes around master data creation, maintenance, and effective utilization.  Master Data Governance refers to the process of managing and maintaining master data in a consistent, accurate, and reliable manner across the Gilead organization. It involves establishing rules, policies, roles and workflows to ensure the quality, integrity and lifecycle management of master data. This data is foundational for processes across Sourcing, Procurement, Supplier Invoice Processing, Payments, and Supplier Performance Management. This role will be responsible for establishing the end-to-end linkages for master data between different process areas, and different systems. Responsibilities (include but are not limited to): • Data Quality Management: Ensuring accuracy, completeness, consistency, and uniqueness of master data. Tools and checks can identify duplicate of incomplete records. • Create Data Quality Rules, build dashboards by material types to measure the data quality • Build Data Dictionary at an attribute level that defines ownership of each attribute • Establish the attributes that should have LOV. Once identified, ensure LOV’s follow data standards that have been established   • Data Standards and Policies: Establish clear rules of how master data should be created, updated and managed. For example: • • Naming conventions • Data fields required for each material type • Approval processes for creating new master data records   • Define Roles and Responsibilities: Define who is responsible for: • • Creating and approving master data records • Ensuring compliance with data policies • Auditing data accuracy and updates • Build Data Lineage: Data lineage is crucial in data governance because it provides a clear view of the origin, transformation, movement, and consumption of data across an organization. It helps stakeholders understand how data flows t

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