Material Master Data Steward

With more than $1B in revenue, Tennant Company is a globally recognized leader in the cleaning equipment industry. For the past 150 years, we have been passionate about developing and manufacturing innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers. At Tennant Company, we are committed to stewardship and creating a cleaner, safer and healthier world. With manufacturing, operations and sales, service, and support functions across the globe, your journey at Tennant can take you places you never expected.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Data creation

• Creating and maintaining key data elements to ensure accurate output for materials
• Responsible for monitoring and approving new material creation, ensuring new material master data meets all standards and requirements
• Work within the Material Workflows as is aligned to performance expectations
  
  

Data quality

• Ensure the highest level of data quality, integrity, and service
• Support developing and improving master data management to increase operational efficiency and strengthen data governance
• Identify data quality issues and work with the business to determine sustainable solutions
• Create/maintain reports and dashboards on data quality, analyze and make recommendations as needed
• Ability to query data from databases
  
  

Data stewardship

• Support engineering life cycle management team through material change workflows
• Act as a resource for incoming team members and a liaison to other departments that have requests.
• Demonstrate excellent customer service to internal and external customers and ensure business service level agreements are met
• Investigating and interpreting information using a variety of internal and external sources
• Serve as the expert on material master to local region
  
  

Data governance

• Collaborate within master data teams to ensure measurables are prioritized, scoped, assessed, and delivered on time.
• Enforce Governance policies over domain across the business
• Participate in creation of master data standards
• Participate in Continuous Improvement efforts around the domain
• Various projects as assigned
  
  

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:

• Master Data Management or Data Scientist or Engineering Data degree
• Previous material master data and/or data management experience preferred
• Efficient data entry skills to manage the workload
• Previous experience running and reviewing reports preferred
• SAP experience preferred, especially with material master data
• Basic Excel
  
  

REQUIRED INTERPERSONAL & BEHAVIORAL SKILLS: In addition to the General Responsibilities, the following are requisite interpersonal and behavior skills of the position as well as:

• Understands the importance of his/her role as a representative of Tennant by demonstrating a positive and professional service orientation to internal and external customers as aligned to the Tennant Behavioral expectations
• Anticipates, assesses, and responds effectively to the needs of diverse customers, both internally and externally, making excellent customer service a high priority
• Identifies and prioritizes problems accurately, constructively, and in a timely manner
• Interacts and communicates effectively with others across levels and departments
• Shifts and adjusts priorities to meet emerging needs, able to adapt his/her approach as the requirements of a situation change
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal
• Performs daily duties with minimal supervision
• Intermediate PC and PC application skills
• High level of attention to detail
• Ability to work effectively within a global team
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to query data from databases, analyze and make recommendations as needed
• Managing multiple priorities

Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $56,900 - 85,300 Annualized
Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. Tennant Co. reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualifications of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
Total Compensation = Base Salary + Benefits
Benefits = A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, disability, life insurance, paid time off, and voluntary benefits!

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Equal Opportunity Employer

Tennant Company is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of individual skill, ability, reliability, productivity, and other factors important to performance. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other basis protected by state or federal law or local ordinance.