Full-Time Head of Product Data Management

Job PurposeLeading a global product data team, this role will provide strong leadership in guiding business processes, identifying best practices, and formulating strategies for product data as we accelerate our digital transformation.

This leader will work closely with cross-functional teams to integrate product data with customer and market data to present a holistic view of LGC Standards product offering to our customers.

This position will drive improvements in data quality and efficiency and will deliver strategic insights to support aggressive commercial revenue objectives through product data enrichment and system improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strong leadership and guidance to the global product data team.
• Ensure systems and processes are fit for purpose to support the product data needs of the business.
• Lead the product data enrichment initiative to increase web traffic to our products and maximize conversion.
• Develop a roadmap to implement a product information management system (PIM) to scale with business growth.
• Identify product data related process issues, risks, and opportunities to deliver commercial objectives.
• Improve data quality across all systems, setting aggressive KPIs for improving customer-facing data quality.
• Bring innovative thinking to our digital transformation journey.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives to support aggressive top and bottom-line objectives through product data.
• Develop a roadmap to empower distributors with the most up-to-date product catalogue.
• Gather, interpret, and analyze information to solve problems and make informed decisions.
• Build and evolve systems and processes to drive efficiencies and increase outputs; develop clear documentation.
• Think and act in a way that aligns with long-term goals and objectives. Understand how different parts of the organization relate to each other to determine impacts.

Required Skills and Experience

• Educated to degree or equivalent level, ideally in a relevant subject.
• Experienced in managing large teams and delivering through others.
• 5+ years of experience in a business process and strategy role focusing on identifying and communicating process flows.
• Proven experience working collaboratively across diverse commercial and technology teams.
• Experience in developing recommendations and reporting for a variety of audiences.
• Experience providing written and verbal training on processes and best practices.
• A thorough understanding of the Microsoft Office suite.
• Familiarity with data analysis tools (e.g., Tableau, Business Objects).
• Strong business acumen with a commercial mindset, process visualization competencies, and a track record of producing high-quality output.
• Attention to detail is crucial.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Team motivator and influencer at all levels.
• Willing and able to stay curious, proactive, and adapt to changing commercial realities.
• Travel required: flexible, less than 20%

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