Material Data Specialist (MDM) Unilever
First seen by Alion on Nov 11, 2026.
We are looking for a Material Data Specialist (MDM) who will be a European Product Data Specialist. This is a consultancy assignment starting from 1st December to the end of September 2027.
About the company
Unilever is one of the world´s leading consumer goods companies, with a portfolio of well-known brands across food, personal care, beauty and home care. With a strong focus on innovation, sustainability and growth, Unilever operates in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where collaboration and continuous improvement are key to success.
About Customer Operations Europe
The Customer Operations team consist of various roles and teams that make Excellent Execution a success. The Customer Operations teams focus on less time spent on ‘Running the Business’ to reinvest in ‘Growing the Business’ whilst improving Customer and Employee Satisfaction. Operations brings Sales, Supply Chain and Marketing within Unilever together in realizing excellent execution. The 4 principles driving Customer Operations are: end 2 end ownership, maximized automation, one version of the truth and continuous improvement. Team members within Customer Operations embrace the vision and their daily work practice reflects the 4 principles of Operations. Operations effectively works in a cross-country setting, embracing cultural diversity and working in virtual teams.
Competencies key to make Customer Operations a success, are:
- Practical creativity
- Enterprising behavior
- Ability to learn
Job summary
As a Product Data Specialist in Customer Operations Europe, you will play a pivotal role in developing end-to-end European product data management (EPDM). EPDM ensures the accuracy, consistency, and integrity of product data across our portfolio. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, supply chain, R&D, and IT, to manage and optimize product data information systems. Your responsibilities will include maintaining product data, overseeing data entry processes, and implementing data governance standards to ensure end-to-end product data management. Furthermore you support the MDM improvement processes by monitoring, evaluating, and resolving processing/programming issues, by coming up with tangible solutions for EPDM systems and related material data sources.
Within the EPDM team, there are three areas of expertise among the European Product Data Specialists:
- Material data specialist
- End-to-end data specialist
- Data flow specialist
During your time as a European Product Data Specialist, you will have the opportunity to alternate between the different expertise groups.
The material data specialists focus is on managing the product data that is classified as material data. Material data relates to the internal supply chain product data; weights, dimensions, hierarchies, transport and storage specifications. The material data specialist is responsible for:
- Data enrichment- Creating on-time and in-full data
- Data governance- Ensuring on-time and in-full data from Unilever central master data management (MDM) hub
- KPI performance- Deliver on target performance on the EPDM KPI’s
Key responsibilities
- Data Accuracy and Quality: Ensure all material product data is accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure product data complies with local and international regulations.
- Data Governance: Establish and maintain data governance policies to ensure data integrity and availability.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for improving data management processes and implement best practices to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- Process Improvement: Identifying and implementing best practices for data management.
- Master Data Management (MDM): Overseeing master data creation and maintenance.
- Data Standardization: Ensuring adherence to data standards.
- Data Cleansing: Regularly auditing and cleaning data.
- Innovation Tracking: Monitoring innovations in data management.
Required skills & qualifications
- Proficiency in the English language.
- Attention to Detail: Ensuring data accuracy and quality.
- Data Integration Skills: Integrating and synchronizing data across systems.
- Product Information Management (PIM): Managing centralized product information systems.
- Data Governance: Establishing and maintaining data governance policies.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working with various departments to meet data needs.
- Analytical Ability: Analysing process optimization patterns.
- Stakeholder Management: Persuading teams to adopt process standards.
- Change Management: Leading process change initiatives.
- Continuous Improvement: Constantly enhancing processes.
- Communication: Effectively conveying process requirements.