Enterprise Master Data Lead

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose‑led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.

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Function: Global Data & Analytics (D&A)

Location: Global / Regional hub

Company: pladis

At pladis, our purpose is simple and powerful: bringing happiness with every bite.

We are a global snacking company built on over 300 years of heritage, uniting iconic brands such as McVitie’s, GODIVA, and Ülker, and serving consumers in more than 120 countries. Our culture is shaped by craft, care, collaboration, agility, and resilience, and by a belief that the best ideas come from working together, across borders and perspectives.

As pladis continues to grow, data plays a critical role in helping us delight consumers, empower our teams, and make better, faster decisions responsibly and sustainably. Our strategy is to get Data AI ready and our objective is to align functional and regional leaders on data governance framework.

The Enterprise Master Data Lead is responsible for defining and orchestrating the enterprise‑wide master data enablement and MDM implementation model, predominantly across Product, Material, Supplier, and Customer domains, supporting pladis’ global and regional reporting, analytics, and AI foundations.

Note - This role does not own master data. Master data ownership remains firmly with business stakeholders.

• Aligning with regional business and IT leaders to understand data, reporting, and insight needs
• Defining data governance frameworks, standards, and templates that enable business in overcoming their current data maturity challenges
• Enable conceptualising (with regional and global function leads) function‑specific enterprise data products that underpin core reporting, analytics, and AI use cases, with clear and measurable business value

• Define and maintain the enterprise master data governance framework in line with business needs and existing scenario.
• Create governance standards, rule templates, and stewardship models for regional and global business data owners.
• Enable business ownership of master data through practical governance playbooks and decision frameworks.
• Enable design and/or selection of the automated workflows/products to manage master data using an agreed MDM strategy.
• Lead the implementation of MDM workflows with business stakeholders by defining steps to identify, clean, enrich, manage and distribute master data as a single source of truth for any transactional and analytical needs.
• Orchestrate collaboration across business, MDM, data engineering, and analytics teams.

• Partner with regional business and IT leaders to understand core data, reporting, and analytics needs.
• Apply a structured framework to identify, assess, and prioritise regional and global data requirements.
• Translate fragmented regional needs into scalable, enterprise‑level pladis data product concepts.
• Define core and baseline pladis data products supporting mandatory reporting, analytics, and AI use cases across all major business functions.
• Standardise key pladis master and reference data domains including customer, product, pricing, promotions, and supply chain data…