Master Data Specialist

At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful. Since its inception in 1969 in Limoges, France, and as part of the LVMH Group since 1997, Sephora has been disrupting the prestige beauty retail industry. Today, Sephora continues to break with convention to drive its mission: champion a world of inspiration and inclusion where everyone can celebrate their beauty. With 56,000 employees in 35 countries, we connect customers and beauty brands within the world’s most passionate beauty community. With a curation of nearly 500 brands, and our own label, Sephora Collection, we offer the most unique and diverse range of products: fragrances, makeup, hair care, skincare... and much more.

Reporting to: Compliance & Master Data Director.

Position Purpose:

The primary responsibility of this role will be to support the business with SAP ERP system, leading but not limited to Master Data for Materials, Pricing and Suppliers. She/He will support operations by monitoring and analyzing master data, key data, and master relationship data within the organization for both Materials and Pricing. Lastly, supporting in KPI reporting and performance management by developing models, dashboards, and workflows.

• Accountable for an axis for item creation, prices, assortment data accuracy.
• Be the SPOC for the Master Data and Performance Team on SAP system.
• Support the Master Data Management strategy to ensure data standardization, quality, governance and provide a single source of trust for the domains.
• Participate in data quality improvement initiatives.
• Ensure master data integration, operation is smooth and act as a control gate to ensure supporting documents, level of approval and system tools to be used are compliance with company standards.
• Pro-actively monitoring and analyzing all master data objects for continuous improvements on the cleanliness of data including controlling data redundancy; ensuring data quality, integrity, and consistency of master data across all business systems.
• Resolving data quality problems through the appropriate choice of error detection and correction, process control and improvement, or process design strategies collaborating with subject matter experts (SMEs) and data stewards.
• Perform regular business-related activities e.g., data quality review, data clean up, system user profile maintenance, dashboard reporting.
• Participate in projects and initiatives to facilitate across multiple functional areas and market.
• Work closely with the business / IT to ensure alignment of master data rules and the operation of the application meets all requirements.
• Support internal audit process through required documentation and analysis as required.
• Develop a risk-based testing approach by understanding how to translate business requirements into data design to ensure a compliant, efficient, and effective system.
• Be an advocate for continual improvement within the end and end processes, with a focus on data integrity.
• Improve, standardize, and automate reporting of performance metrics with key data insights, allowing the business to make informed data driven decisions.
• Utilize Power Bi to build out Supply Chain reporting capabilities, developing metrics, reports, and statistics.

• Minimum 6+ years’ experience in Master Data Management (MDM), Data Governance, and Data Quality domains and MDM tools.
• Strong SAP skills, Looker and/or other BI reporting tools.
• Advanced Excel is a must, along with being comfortable with large data.
• Education: Engineering or Business Master’s degree.
• Previous experience in Retail or FMCG companies; Cosmetic market knowledge is a plus.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Team spirit, agility, adaptability, and tolerance to pressure.
• Very good interpersonal skills with excellent customer service and can-do “mentality”.
• Ability to provide on-call support in case of emergent issues.
• Process orientation and user satisfaction attitude.
• Exhibit critical thinking / problem solving skills and the ability to think outside the box.
• Analytically minded and methodical problem solver Excellent analytical/organizational/ communication skills.
• Ability to multitask and execute plans/deadlines in a dynamic environment.

Here, you will find:

• Community, in which authenticity is embraced, and the strength of our differences fuels our collective spirit.
• Culture of empowerment, learning & growth, that offers you the tools, space and opportunity to learn, innovate and lead.
• Work that brings fulfillment. From delighting clients every day, to inspiring our industry at large, every action makes a difference.

Join us and belong to something beautiful.