Template​/External Requisition Title Manager MDM; Master Data Management

Position Overview

Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of shaping a sustainable world together, we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Novelis has approximately 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

This role is accountable for the operational management and delivery of the enterprise Master and Reference Data Management (MDM) platform and the quality, consistency, and governance of mastered data across Customer, Vendor, Material, and Reference Data domains. Reporting to the Head of Data Management and based in Atlanta, GA, this is a people leadership role managing a team of approximately four MDM analysts, lead analysts, and engineers, with a dotted-line relationship to a cross-pillar data engineer shared with Data Engineering.

The Manager, Master Data Management directs the team’s delivery of domain data models, match/merge and survivorship logic, golden record management, hierarchy configuration, stewardship workflows, and domain harmonization across regions and source systems. This role ensures mastered data is governed, quality-assured, and production-ready for downstream analytics, reporting, and AI workloads. The role works in close partnership with the Manager, Data Governance to ensure quality rules, governance workflows, metadata, and access controls are consistently integrated into MDM processes and pipelines.

Master and reference data underpin Novelis’ ability to report accurately, optimize operations, and make consistent decisions across 32 global facilities. This role ensures that Customer, Vendor, Material, and Reference Data are harmonized, governed, and reliable at enterprise scale—directly enabling trusted analytics, compliant reporting, and AI-ready data across all plants and regions.

This role is aligned to the Data Management pillar and owns the following enterprise capability:

• Master and Reference Data Platform (Customer, Vendor, Material, Reference)

MDM Platform Delivery & Operations

• Direct the team’s delivery of MDM platform operations, including domain data models, match/merge logic, survivorship rules, hierarchies, golden record management, and reference data structures across all four governed domains.
• Ensure MDM-specific data products published through the Data Catalog are properly configured, access-routed, and operationally supported through the team’s work.
• Hold the team accountable for MDM platform reliability, mastered data quality, metadata completeness, and governance compliance across all governed domains.
• Oversee platform administration including environment management, connector configurations, source system mappings, and upgrade and patch execution.
• Ensure mastered data meets production-readiness standards for downstream analytics, reporting, and AI use cases.

• Own execution of MDM governance for master and reference data, including stewardship workflows, approvals, escalations, and operating cadence, aligned with the enterprise Data Governance framework.
• Direct the team’s partnership with the Manager, Data Governance to ensure metadata, lineage, access controls, and data quality rules are embedded in MDM processes.
• Drive stewardship adoption for MDM domains through clear role definitions, enablement, and practical workflows for Data Stewards and Data Owners.
• Define and track MDM stewardship engagement metrics, including coverage, task completion and SLA adherence, issue backlog aging, remediation throughput, and adoption of match-and-merge and survivorship rules.
• Lead data domain harmonization for master and reference data, ensuring consistent definitions, hierarchies, code sets, and golden record rules across regions and source systems.
• Provide executive visibility into MDM adoption, stewardship effectiveness, and domain harmonization progress through dashboards and periodic reporting.