Master Data Specialist

at  Cardinal Health

At Cardinal Health, we aim to be a trusted partner, offering a broad range of innovative solutions that help our customers provide cost-efficient, more effective healthcare. Join our team of 40,000 humble partners striving each day to make healthcare more efficient, providers more effective, and patients as healthy as possible. We are currently looking to recruit a Master Data Specialist. Based in our office in Dublin, Ireland, you will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following.
The Master Data Specialist will maintain consistency & accuracy of customer master data in existing systems. This position will also be responsible for the implementation of new systems and add-ons to support the SAP Selling Entities in EMEA as well as support the Global Customer Master team to establish efficiency improvements in the processes/systems to support and provide value to business requirements. The Master Data EMEA specialist is a key driver of successful downstream Order-to-Cash processes including accurate shipping and invoicing. Due to central nature of MD, role will partner with various Cardinal Health functions (especially IT, Pricing, EDI and Commercial teams). Scope of responsibilities will include customers purchasing existing products sold in EMEA as well as business and product expansion.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 2 to 3 years of experience in similar roles
• Experience in CMD area, Healthcare experience a plus
• Effective in structuring, analyzing and understanding data
• Knowledge of SAP and MS Excel
• Fluent English, additional language(s) are considered a plus
• Must be determined and flexible with a positive outlook
• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Deliver optimized master data services to internal and external customers
• Maintain accurate customer master data for all EMEA customers including billing & shipping addresses, customer type/segment information, term and credit set up, etc.
• Validate and create customer account data with information provided by Field Sales, Customer Service, and other internal teams
• Revising Master Data according to established policies and desktop instructions (SAP, etc.)
• Assist with customer master consolidation and hierarchy creation projects
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and procedures
• Review and audit of Master Data documentation
• Applies corporate rules and best practices when reviewing requests to identify errors in global data fields and rejects, escalates or remediates errors in both product and customer master data
• Multi-task in a multi-functional environment while maintaining service level targets
• Supports, implements and enhances customer master data governance rules, standard operating procedures (SOPs), naming convention and other enterprise data standards
• Plays a lead role in implementation of product life cycle requirements
• Ensures all product data is current and accurate enabling timely and accurate shipments
• Responsible for testing, script design of all master data related requirements
• All other duties as assigned