Regional Customer Data Steward Américas

Description

GEA is one of the world’s largest systems suppliers for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical sectors. Our portfolio includes machinery and plants as well as advanced process technology, components and comprehensive services. Used across diverse industries, they enhance the sustainability and efficiency of production processes globally.

About GEA

• GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success – come and join them! We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.

• Why join GEA

• GEA is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will therefore receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, religion, world view, national origin, genetics, disability, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other protected characteristic required by applicable law. Applicants with disabilities are welcome and will be given special consideration if they are equally qualified.

Your profile and qualifications

• Experience in master data management, preferably customer master data

• Good understanding of SAP S/4HANA Customer Master and MDG‑C

• Experience with CRM, preferably Sales & Service Cloud

• Experience in a B2B / industrial / project‑based business environment is a plus

• Strong analytical skills and ability to work across functions and regions

• Structured, detail‑oriented, and confident in enforcing standards in a matrix organization

Your responsibilities and tasks

• Own and monitor customer master data quality for the assigned region for the NPE division

• Enforce GEA Group and divisional customer data standards, policies, and governance rules

• Execute and steer deduplication, merging, obsoletion, and cleansing activities

• Support and coach local customer data stewards and build a regional steward community

• Act as escalation point for complex customer master data cases (e.g. duplicates, unclear account hierarchies)

• Support SAP S/4HANA (MDG‑C) and CRM operations and ensure compliance with customer data workflows

• Support Transform360 data readiness, including data quality monitoring and validation

• Provide transparency on data quality KPIs, risks, and improvement progress

• Perform testing of data related changes in CRM/MDG, raise defects, and provide concrete feedback to central product/process teams

• Document operating procedures/SOPs and work instructions for regional execution (request validation, enrichment rules, approvals, escalation paths), and keep them current

• Collaborate daily with Sales, Service, Finance and Data Governance counterparts to unblock requests and ensure smooth order to cash handoffs (e.g., correct addresses/VAT to prevent invoice rejections)