Supplier Certification Specialist

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Position Overview

The Supplier Master Data Specialist is a strategic, role responsible for the governance, optimization, and advanced use of supplier master data to support enterprise-wide supplier management and Procure-to-Pay (P2P) decision-making. Beyond ensuring data accuracy and compliance, this role leverages supplier data to generate insights that improve supplier performance, mitigate risk, optimize spend, and enable informed sourcing and payment strategies. The position serves as a trusted advisor to Procurement, Finance, and Compliance leaders on supplier data-driven decisions.
 

Responsibilities
 

Supplier Master Data Strategy & Governance

• Own the end-to-end supplier master data domain across the Procure-to-Pay lifecycle

• Define and evolve supplier master data governance frameworks, standards, and controls

• Establish data ownership models, approval hierarchies, and escalation paths

• Ensure ongoing compliance with audit, SOX, tax, regulatory, and fraud prevention requirements

Strategic Supplier Data Utilization

• Analyze supplier master data to identify consolidation opportunities, supplier risk exposure, and redundancies

• Provide insights on supplier payment terms, banking structures, geographic footprint, and legal entities to inform sourcing and contracting decisions

• Support supplier segmentation models (strategic, preferred, transactional, high-risk) using master data attributes

Procure-to-Pay Leadership & Advisory

• Advise Procurement, Accounts Payable, and Finance leadership on supplier data impacts to purchasing, invoicing, and cash flow

• Lead complex supplier setup and change scenarios (mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, global rollouts)

• Resolve high-risk or escalated supplier data issues with cross-functional stakeholders

Reporting, Analytics & Decision Support

• Design and deliver supplier master data dashboards and reporting for leadership

• Translate supplier data into actionable insights related to spend concentration, supplier risk, compliance gaps, and payment optimization

• Partner with Finance to support working capital initiatives and payment strategy analysis

Transformation & Continuous Improvement

• Lead supplier master data components of P2P transformation initiatives, including ERP implementations, system integrations, and automation

• Evaluate and implement tools for supplier onboarding, data validation, and master data management

• Establish and maintain SOPs, controls, and training materials across global teams

Minimum Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of experience in Supplier certification specialist

• Operationally-focused Professional role, requiring experience OR analytical advisor role still developing higher-level expertise.

• Solve a range of problems of mild-to-moderate complexity and scope by analyzing possible solutions using standard procedures.

• Exercise judgement within defined guidelines or known precedents.

• Seek guidance on unusual situations or circumstances where guidelines are unclear.

• Receive a moderate level of guidance and direction, with little or no direction day-to-day assignments.

• Work is typically reviewed by a more experienced team member before it is provided to senior leaders.

• A common career stabilization point (AKA the “full-contributor” level) for operationally-focused roles, whereas analytical advisor roles at this level are building knowledge of the subject-matter area, function/BU, company, products, and customers.

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