Product Master Data Management Lead

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Greetings from Smart Work IT Services,

Role: Product Master Data Management Lead

Location: REMOTE

Product MDM is the harder, more cross-functional of the two domains. Product master data needs to be accessible across all business functions, from research through commercial operations, to support analytics and integration with downstream systems. The product master is a GxP-critical asset and underpins multiple GxP-compliant processes.

Key skills

• IDMP (Identification of Medicinal Products) standards compliance, which is the regulatory backbone for product data in pharma
• Experience with hub-of-hubs or federated architecture patterns that integrate master data across commercial, manufacturing, R&D, and HR business units with real-time data sync
• GxP validation experience (non-negotiable for a product master, since it touches regulated processes)
• Understanding of the product lifecycle: compound/molecule in discovery, IND in clinical, NDA/BLA in regulatory, SKU in supply chain Integration with ERP (SAP is the most common at J&J), LIMS, and regulatory systems
• Data model design that can represent a product entity across very different functional contexts
• The ideal candidate needs to bridge R&D, regulatory, manufacturing, and commercial. This is rare. Most MDM practitioners live exclusively in the commercial world (customer MDM).
• Product MDM in pharma requires someone who understands drug development lifecycle stages and regulatory submissions, not just catalog management