Team Lead - Item Coding Management

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The Team Lead - Item Coding Management is responsible for leading a team responsible for Item Acquisition & Intake, Coding & Enrichment, Matching & Identity Resolution, Quality Control, and Item Content Management. The primary objective of this role is to establish scalable, accurate, and client-ready item dictionaries that support customer requirements and high-quality client delivery. Success is measured by the organization’s ability to maintain complete, accurate, and commercially relevant item structures that support current and future business needs.

This leader is accountable for the quality, consistency, and scalability of the item dictionary. They are responsible for building item foundations with near-zero error tolerance while enabling highly automated ongoing operations. The successful candidate combines strong people leadership, operational excellence, and a technology-first mindset. Working closely with Product, Commercial, Technology, and Engineering teams, the role drives improvements in quality, speed, automation, and scalability and understands that sustainable AI adoption depends on high-quality data foundations.

• Lead the Item Management team and deliver client-ready item dictionaries.
• Own dictionary quality, completeness, consistency, and client readiness.
• Ensure item structures scale across categories, customers, and business needs.
• Evaluate and validate third-party content and data sources.
• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team focused on quality, continuous improvement, and professional growth.

• Dictionary readiness for client delivery.
• Dictionary accuracy and completeness.
• Client delivery quality.
• Automation rate.
• Scalability without proportional headcount growth.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in Item Management, Product Information Management, Master Data, Data Operations, Analytics Operations, or related…