Data Business Analyst, SAP S/4HANA Transformation

A global pharmaceutical business is running a major SAP S/4HANA transformation and is building its own data governance capability from the ground up. We’re looking for a hands-on Data Governance BA who has done this before: someone who has set up data governance where none existed and got it running day to day.

This isn’t a strategy or framework-writing role. Much of today’s data management is manual, and the aim is a simple, practical MDG process the business will actually use. You’ll be the person who makes that happen.

What you’ll do

• Set up data ownership and stewardship: identify owners, agree responsibilities and get people to take them on
• Start and run governance forums and approval routines
• Write the playbooks, procedures, standards and data quality rules people follow day to day
• Set up issue management: logging, finding the owner, escalating and closing data quality issues
• Keep owner and steward registers, trackers and readiness reporting up to date
• Work with business readiness and change teams so new processes are adopted
• Hand processes over to BAU and shared services teams so they keep running after the programme

• Proven experience setting up data governance from scratch and getting it running. You’ll need to describe what you put in place first, who you got to own what, and what was still running when you left.
• Solid business analysis skills: workshops, documentation and stakeholder management
• Hands-on data quality or master data experience
• Clear, plain-English communication with non-technical business users

Desirable

• SAP master data or SAP MDG (or a similar workflow tool)
• Experience on a large ERP or S/4HANA transformation
• Pharmaceutical, life sciences or another regulated environment
• Experience handing processes over to BAU or shared services