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 practices, business processes, project delivery methods, and governance disciplines.

Required Skills & Capabilities Advanced knowledge of Engineering Product Data Management, Product Data Management, Master Data, and related business processes.

Ability to lead highly complex, cross-functional initiatives involving regional and global stakeholders.

Strong project leadership capabilities across scope, schedule, budget, risk, issue, dependency, quality, and change management.

Ability to interpret and analyze complex information, clarify ambiguity, and develop practical recommendations and solutions.

Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to align business and technology teams around shared outcomes.

Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, and collaboration skills.

Ability to provide functional guidance and leadership without relying on direct reporting authority.

Strong organizational judgment and the ability to manage multiple priorities and interdependencies simultaneously.

Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on data quality, standardization, governance, process effectiveness, and measurable business value.

Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

Minimum of 3 years of project management experience, including responsibility for cross-functional project delivery.

Proven track record of successfully delivering complex projects and driving measurable outcomes.

Demonstrated experience in Engineering, Product Data Management, Master Data, data governance, or related…