Head of Product Data Management

Job Purpose

Leading a global product data team this role will provide strong leadership in guiding business processes identifying best practices and formulating strategies for product data as we accelerate our digital transformation. This leader will work closely with crossfunctional teams to integrate product data with customer and market data to present a holistic view of LGC Standards product offering to our customers. This position will drive improvements in data quality and efficiency and will deliver strategic insights to support aggressive commercial revenue objectives through product data enrichment and system improvements. Willingness to learn more about LGCs markets and customers will be essential to fulfilling the potential of this role. This role represents a great opportunity for a processminded detailoriented and ambitious individual to set new standards for process efficiency and data strategy across the division.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strong leadership and guidance to the global product data team.
• Ensure our systems and processes are fit for purpose to support the product data needs of the business.
• Lead the product data enrichment initiative to increase web traffic to our products and maximize conversion.
• Develop a roadmap to implement a product information management system (PIM) that will enable us to scale in line with the business growth ambitions.
• Identify product data related process issues risks and opportunities to deliver our commercial objectives.
• Improve data quality across all systems setting aggressive KPIs for improving customerfacing data quality as foundational to LGCs value proposition.
• Bring innovative thinking to our digital transformation journey to help LGC meet its goals and leapfrog the competition.
• Drive crossfunctional initiatives to support the delivery of aggressive top and bottomline objectives through product data.
• Develop a roadmap to empower distributors with the most uptodate product catalogue and serve their product data needs efficiently.
• Gather interpret and analyze information to solve problems and make informed decisions.
• Build and evolve systems and processes to drive efficiencies and increase outputs. Develop clear and detailed documentation of processes and workflows.
• Think and act in a way that aligns with longterm goals and objectives. Understand how different parts of the organization relate to each other to determine impacts.

Qualifications :

• Educated to degree or equivalent level ideally in a relevant subject.
• Experienced in managing large teams and delivering through others.
• 5 years of experience in a business process and strategy role with a focus area on identifying and communicating clear process flows best practices efficiencies and potential impacts to customer experience.
• Proven experience working in collaboration across diverse commercial and technology teams.
• Experience in developing recommendations and reporting for a variety of audiences.
• Experience providing written and verbal training on processes and best practices.
• A thorough understanding of the Microsoft Office suite.
• Familiarity with data analysis tools such as Tableau and Business Objects and their capabilities.
• Strong business acumen with a commercial mindset process visualization competencies and a track record of producing highquality output and meeting deadlines.
• Attention to detail is crucial.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Team motivator and influencer at all levels.
• Willing and able to stay curious proactive and adapt quickly to changing commercial realities.
• Travel required: flexible less than 20%

Additional Information :

About LGC: 

LGC is a leading global life science tools company providing missioncritical components and solutions into highgrowth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. Its highquality product portfolio is comprised of missioncritical tools for genomic analysis and for quality assurance applications which are typically embedded and recurring within our customers products and workflows and are valued for their performance quality and range. 

Our Values

• PASSION
• CURIOSITY 
• INTEGRITY
• BRILLIANCE
• RESPECT

Equal Opportunities  

LGC strongly believes that every job applicant and employee should be valued for their individual talents regardless of age disability race colour ethnic or national origin sex sexual orientation gender reassignment marital or civil partnership pregnancy or maternity religion or belief. Short listing interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to gender sexual orientation marital status colour race nationality ethnic or national origins religion or belief age or trade union membership.

For more information about LGC please visit our website 

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Fulltime