Data Management Teamlead

About the role

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Nestlé Nutrition & Health is a leading player in the field of nutritional supplements and is active in the Netherlands with brands such as Orthica, Solgar, Pure and AOV. Our ambition is to help people live healthier lives. Our dedication to health goes beyond offering high-quality nutritional products and supplements. We want to support people in becoming as healthy as possible by combining our knowledge, expertise and passion for nutrition and wellbeing. We do this together with our team of around 120 employees based in Almere, who share an affinity with good nutrition, health and a healthy lifestyle.

We are looking for a: Team Lead Data Management factory Almere

(full-time 40 hours per week)

Enabling E2E processes by fostering accurate and first time right master data

Lead the factory Data Management team and ensure accurate, complete and timely master data to enable reliable end-to-end business processes across the factory. The Team Lead Data Management combines people leadership with functional expertise and owns local data quality, governance and continuous improvement, working closely with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement, Finance and IT as well as centralized data management teams.

The role safeguards master data readiness and drives standardization, process discipline and data quality across SAP-supported processes, ensuring that master data enables rather than disrupts factory operations.

Your responsibilities will include

• Leading, coaching, and developing the Data Management team, creating clarity on priorities, balance workload across the team and build capabilities in the team.
• Create a continous improvement mindset with service-oriented culture enabled by ownership, and clear performance expectations.
• Ensuring the timely and accurate creation, maintenance and lifecycle management of master data in line with defined standards.
• Oversee data validation, reconciliation and periodic health checks.
• Ensure business continuity by preventing operational disruptions caused by missing or incorrect master data.
• Coordinate escalations and complex data issues.
• Owning the implementation and consistent application of data management and data governance rules within Operations.
• Driving data quality through analysis, validation, reconciliation, root-cause investigation, and corrective actions by use of data health checks.
• Working with SAP data structures and overseeing dependencies and impacts across systems and business processes.
• Enabling reliable reporting and dashboards in Power BI and translating stakeholder needs into practical data solutions.
• Partnering with IT, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and other functions to improve processes and deliver data-related initiatives.
• Your profile
• For this position we are looking for a candidate with strong experience in data management as well a people leader who takes ownership, provides direction, and builds effective partnerships across the organisation.
• Has solid professional experience in Master Data Management, Supply Chain, Operations, IT/data or a related functional environment.
• Has experience leading, coaching or coordinating a team.
• Has strong practical knowledge of SAP master data and understands how data affects end-to-end operational processes.
• Has experience with Data Governance and Data Quality principles.
• Understands a manufacturing and/or Supply Chain environment.
• Has experience working in a cross-functional and international organisation.
• Is comfortable working with operational data and translating data issues into business impact.
• Can lead process improvement and standardization initiatives.
• Combining team leadership with hands-on problem-solving and continuous improvement.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders and explains complex data topics in a practical way.
• Are fluent in English and comfortable working with international teams; Dutch is an advantage.