Job Summary:
Element Biosciences is dedicated to empowering the scientific community with innovative solutions. They are seeking a Senior Lead for Enterprise Master Data who will define and drive the master data governance strategy across various domains, ensuring compliance and alignment with business priorities while optimizing operations across multiple functions.
Responsibilities:
• Define and evolve the master data governance strategy and multi-year roadmap across material, vendor, and customer domains
• Establish and govern customer master data aligned to order-to-cash processes (customer onboarding, pricing, billing, invoicing, revenue recognition), including ownership models and decision rights with Commercial and Finance
• Establish and enforce data standards, policies, and decision frameworks to ensure consistency and scalability across PLM, ERP, CRM, and downstream systems
• Serve as the authority for material, vendor, and customer master data, driving cross-functional alignment and leading governance forums to resolve ownership and prioritization decisions
• Drive a single source of truth strategy across systems and business processes
• Own and optimize master data lifecycle and data quality (creation through archival, KPIs, and enterprise-wide remediation)
• Ensure compliance with GDP, SOPs, and ISO standards (ISO 27001, 9001, 13485), supporting audit readiness and regulatory requirements
• Standardize customer master attributes (sales channel, payment terms, VAT/EORI, Incoterms, hierarchies, and account structures) to enable accurate order processing, invoicing, and reporting
• Partner with business and IT leaders to support system implementations, integrations, and transformations, ensuring master data requirements are defined and met
• Drive master data readiness to enable product launches and business scale, while advising leadership on data risks, trade-offs, and investments
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, or related field with 8+ years of experience in Master Data Management, Data Governance, or Business Systems (biotech, pharma, or medical device experience preferred)
• Strong working knowledge in master data domains and data architecture (material, vendor, customer master; strong understanding of interactions with transactional data across order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and manufacturing processes)
• Experience designing and operating governance and change management processes (data governance frameworks, controlled data changes, impact assessment, change control in regulated/GxP environments)
• Strong systems and data proficiency (ERP, CRM, PLM integrations; SQL, Snowflake, or similar querying tools; Excel and BI/reporting tools such as Tableau or Power BI)
• Proven ability to lead through influence (cross-functional alignment across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, Commercial, and IT; ability to translate between technical and business stakeholders)
• Strong analytical and execution skills in a fast-paced environment (root cause analysis, process improvement, high attention to detail)
• Ability to lift up to 20 pounds
Company:
Element Biosciences is a life science company that focuses on developing innovative genetic analysis tools. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in San Diego, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.