Director of Master Data Governance

** Position Description and

Purpose:

** Founded in 1923 and headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Roskam Foods is a leading contract manufacturer that partners with world-renowned food brands, retailers, and food service providers to produce a myriad of frozen, refrigerated and shelf-stable products. We’re a scaled, diversified operation with over 2 million square feet of manufacturing and 50 production lines across 8 facilities in the U.S. and Canada.

We believe in the power of purpose-driven leadership to generate value for all. And we’re on a mission to optimize the potential of our people and brands. We are passionate about multiplying possibilities for our employees and our partners.

Roskam Foods produces and packages food products with the goal of consistently meeting and exceeding customer expectations for quality, safety, and wholesomeness.##

Key Responsibilities ### Governance Leadership
- Develop and implement a comprehensive master data governance framework aligned with enterprise goals and ERP transformation priorities.  - Define and enforce data standards, validation rules, naming conventions, change control protocols, and approval workflows.  - Lead the creation and maintenance of data policies and procedures across key domains, including item, vendor, customer, financial, recipe/formula, and supply chain master data.### Master Data Cleansing & ERP Readiness
- Lead the master data cleansing initiative in preparation for the Microsoft D365 F&O ERP implementation.  - Inventory and assess legacy data sources for quality, completeness, and relevance.  - Collaborate with Finance, R&D, Operations, IT, Quality and Supply Chain to identify and remediate data quality issues.  - Work with IT to oversee the data migration strategy, mapping, and validation to ensure clean and accurate data transition into D365 F&O.  

- Standardize formats, remove duplicates, enrich missing attributes, and purge obsolete records.  - Support incremental activation of AI capabilities within D365 F&O and other systems by ensuring foundational data integrity.### Internal Controls & Compliance
- Establish internal controls to ensure data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and auditability.  - Partner with Finance, R&D, Supply Chain, Operations, Quality and IT to embed governance into business processes and ERP workflows.  - Ensure master data controls support applicable regulatory, food safety, customer, financial reporting, privacy, and audit requirements.### Performance Monitoring & Reporting
- Define and track KPIs for data quality, including completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, duplicate records, missing attributes, and aging of unresolved data issues.  - Deliver monthly, quarterly, and annual reports to the VP of Finance and executive leadership.  - Use Microsoft and ERP-enabled tools, such as D365 F&O reporting, Microsoft Purview, Profisee, Power BI, or Azure Data Factory, to support data lineage, cataloging, cleansing, transformation, and visibility.###

Team Leadership & Collaboration
- Manage a team of three data clerks responsible for master data maintenance, data entry accuracy, routine data updates, and issue resolution.  - Build and lead a cross-functional network of data owners, data stewards, and analysts across Finance, R&D, Supply Chain, Operations, and IT.  - Serve as the primary liaison between business units and IT for master data governance, cleansing, ERP readiness, and post-go-live data quality processes.  

- Drive data literacy, accountability, and change management across the organization.### Acquisition Integration Support
- When applicable, support acquisition integration by assessing acquired business data quality and applying Roskam’s master data standards to key…