Master Data Management Lead (gn)

Start: immediate | Level: Lead | Location: Germany, remote | Working hours: Full-time (40h/week) As a Master Data Management Lead, you bear overall strategic responsibility for master data management across the entire company. The role defines the governance structure, sets priorities for MDM initiatives, and ensures that data accountability, decision rights, and processes are clearly defined. The role acts as a central interface between business strategy and operational data. The position is remote within Germany with occasional visits to the headquarters in Hamburg (in the first year about once a month, less frequently thereafter). Your mission with us: You are responsible for the global MDM strategy, the roadmap, as well as the data governance framework, and define clear data ownership. You build a central MDM Center of Competence (CoC) within the TQG Group, establish standards, and ensure internal know-how development. You lead the MDM team from a professional and disciplinary perspective and coordinate business and technical data stewards. You shape the Master Data Operating Model (MDOM) as well as end-to-end, cross-domain master data processes (product, customer, supplier, finance, logistics). You act as a bridge to the business units (SCM, sales, finance, etc.) and lead strategic governance bodies. You define and monitor MDM key performance indicators (KPIs) using dashboards and drive continuous improvement.