[Hiring] Lead Analyst, IT - Business Process Management HQ ERP Project @Builders FirstSource

Role Description

The SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) Functional Lead Analyst provides functional leadership for the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of SAP MDG processes and solutions. This role leads business requirements, functional design, governance alignment, testing, and stakeholder decision-making across master data domains. The MDG Functional Lead translates business needs into scalable SAP MDG solutions while guiding the technical teams responsible for configuration, integrations, and development. This is a functional leadership role, not a primary ABAP development position.

• Serve as the SAP MDG functional lead and subject matter expert for assigned master data domains.
• Lead discovery, requirements, process design, and functional solution workshops with business and IT stakeholders.
• Translate business and governance requirements into functional specifications, process designs, and acceptance criteria.
• Own functional solution decisions and recommend scalable, supportable SAP MDG approaches that balance business value, user experience, and complexity.
• Define functional requirements for MDG data models, workflows, business rules, validations, search, duplicate checks, and replication.
• Provide functional guidance to technical teams responsible for configuration, integrations, interfaces, and custom development; review delivered solutions for alignment with approved designs.
• Lead functional delivery for Material, Business Partner (Customer and Supplier), and/or Finance master data domains.
• Apply deep knowledge of domain processes, data dependencies, controls, and governance requirements to solution decisions.
• Partner with Data Owners, Data Stewards, and process leaders to define priorities and improve master data processes.
• Translate data governance policies into functional controls, validations, approvals, and data quality requirements.
• Lead cross-functional analysis and resolution of recurring process and data quality issues.
• Own the functional test strategy, scenarios, expected results, defect triage, and business acceptance for unit, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Validate end-to-end MDG processes and confirm solutions meet approved business and governance requirements.
• Provide functional leadership for data migration readiness, validation, and business sign-off during phased SAP rollouts.
• Maintain functional design, decision, process, and testing documentation.
• Lead continuous improvement of workflows, user experience, governance controls, and process efficiency.
• Represent the functional workstream in upgrades, enhancements, rollout planning, and SAP MDG roadmap initiatives.
• Mentor MDG functional analysts and support resources; promote consistent functional methods and documentation standards.
• Ensure functional designs align with enterprise architecture, data governance, security, and support standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university.
• 7+ years of SAP functional experience, including hands-on SAP MDG functional design, process configuration, governance, and testing.
• 3+ years leading SAP MDG functional workstreams, solution design, stakeholder decisions, and cross-functional delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to direct technical delivery and review configuration, integrations, and development without serving as the primary developer.

Requirements

• Evaluates Problems: Evaluates and analyzes different types of information objectively to identify appropriate solutions; writes fluently, establishing the key facts clearly and interprets numerical data effectively.
• Technical Communication/ Presentation: Communicates with clarity and precision, presenting complex information in a concise format that is appropriate for the audience.
• Adjusting and Driving Change: Takes a positive approach to tackling work and embraces change; invites feedback relating to performance and deals constructively with criticism. Identifies the need for and drives change when required to achieve objectives.
• Focuses on Customers: Understands and anticipates customer needs and takes action to provide high-quality products and services to exceed expectations.
• Demonstrates Business Acumen: Demonstrates working knowledge of the market, economic, legal, and regulatory environments and how they impact the business.
• Agile Best Practices: Understands how agility is leveraged in IT ways of working. Adopts agile best practices as appropriate throughout the assigned work lifecycle. Responds to feedback quickly based on comments from internal and external customers and needs of the market.
• Bias for Action: Takes initiative and identifies what needs to be done and acts without waiting to be asked. Executes work in a timely manner. Suggests improvements to current ways of working.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance plans.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• PTO (including paid sick time).
• 8 paid holidays per year (for salaried and hourly team members).