Senior Data Project Manager

Position Summary

The Product Data Management Senior Project Manager leads complex product data, master data, and business process initiatives from strategy through delivery, ensuring alignment across scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, and stakeholder expectations.

Working across regional and global teams, this role strengthens data quality, standardization, governance, and process effectiveness while enabling digital transformation and measurable business value.

As an individual contributor and recognized subject matter expert in Engineering Product Data Management and Master Data, the role provides structured project leadership, resolves ambiguity, and influences operational and strategic decisions through practical recommendations and strong stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities


* Lead complex Product Data Management, Master Data, and business process initiatives from definition through implementation and stabilization.


* Translate strategic objectives and business needs into clear project scope, objectives, deliverables, success criteria, and actionable execution plans.


* Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, dependencies, and governance routines.


* Provide functional leadership to regional and global cross-functional teams and ensure alignment across business stakeholders, IT teams, project teams, and external partners.


* Monitor project progress, performance, risks, issues, decisions, and interdependencies, and provide clear, timely updates to stakeholders and leadership.


* Identify, assess, and mitigate complex risks and issues; develop recommendations and solutions when requirements, ownership, or direction are ambiguous.


* Manage scope and project changes through established governance and change control processes.


* Drive product data quality, standardization, governance, and process improvement across Engineering, PDM, and Master Data domains.


* Partner with Product Owners, Developers, and business stakeholders to define and prioritize requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.


* Ensure alignment between business requirements, solution design, project deliverables, organizational policies, governance requirements, and strategic objectives.


* Lead solution validation and User Acceptance Testing activities, including planning, execution, issue resolution, readiness assessment, and final sign-off.


* Coordinate communication and change management activities to support successful deployment, business readiness, and user adoption across the NAM region.


* Facilitate workshops, governance meetings, decision forums, and stakeholder communications to clarify complex information and drive timely decisions.


* Manage project costs and budgets to meet financial targets, and coordinate vendors, consultants, and external partners as required.


* Drive continuous improvement in Product Data Management ...