Lead Master Data Specialist
Cross-team expert
Career Explorer · Business Operations & Shared Services · Enterprise Master Data Operations
Standard where business need supports the level
What the role involves
- Autonomy
- Sets approach for a domain
- Scope
- Multiple teams / major programs / critical capabilities
- Time horizon
- Quarters
- Expertise and judgement
- Integrates disciplines; influences architecture/process; multiplies others
- Expected impact
- Creates reusable direction and cross-team impact
Expected skills (19)
Grouped as human, professional and technical. Target proficiency uses the P1–P5 scale, and each row says what that level means for that particular skill.
Human (10)
| Skill | Importance | Target | What that level looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accountability Personal Effectiveness | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Active listening Communication & Influence | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Collaboration Collaboration & Leadership | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Critical thinking Thinking & Judgment | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Customer empathy Personal Effectiveness | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Learning agility Thinking & Judgment | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Ownership Personal Effectiveness | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Problem solving Thinking & Judgment | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Verbal communication Communication & Influence | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Written communication Communication & Influence | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
Professional (9)
| Skill | Importance | Target | What that level looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business acumen Business & Strategy | Core | P4 | Sets standards, integrates the skill across teams and resolves novel or high-impact problems. |
| Global Business Services (GBS) Global Business Services & Finance Operations | Core | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for Global Business Services (GBS), integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
| Account reconciliation Global Business Services & Finance Operations | Supporting | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for Account reconciliation, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
| Process governance Global Business Services & Finance Operations | Supporting | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for Process governance, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
| Quality documentation Quality & Regulatory | Supporting | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for Quality documentation, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
| SOX controls Global Business Services & Finance Operations | Supporting | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for SOX controls, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
| Service Level Agreements (SLA) Global Business Services & Finance Operations | Supporting | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for Service Level Agreements (SLA), integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
| Service transition Global Business Services & Finance Operations | Supporting | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for Service transition, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
| Shared services operations Global Business Services & Finance Operations | Supporting | P4 | Sets cross-team standards and governance for Shared services operations, integrating risk, metrics and stakeholder needs. |
Career ladder
Reached from
Next steps
- Principal Master Data SpecialistIC5IC promotion
Move from cross-team leadership to enterprise/domain authority; shape strategy, investment, standards and multi-team outcomes.
What changes to advance
Move from cross-team leadership to enterprise/domain authority; shape strategy, investment, standards and multi-team outcomes.
Source: PROCOMER FTZ benchmark; employer career sites · JF0459-IC4