Lead Master Data Specialist

Position Overview

AST SpaceMobile is seeking a detail-oriented Lead Master Data & Configuration Management Specialist to bridge engineering configuration data with supply chain operations across a multinational business environment. The Lead Specialist ensures that every inventory item is accurately coded, classified, and linked across Enterprise Resource Planning and Warehouse Management Systems. They will establish structural rules, data attributes and parameters, including country-specific requirements such as local tax, customs, regulatory, costing, accounting, and reporting attributes. This role will collaborate globally with cross-functional teams to ensure item master data supports consistent enterprise standards while meeting regional and country-specific operating requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Item Master Architecture: create, configure and maintain inventory records, SKUs, and parts information within the ERP/WMS system.
• Attribute Mapping: Establish and standardize critical data fields, including Unit of Measure (UOM), weight, dimensions, hazardous material codes, expiration dates, conversion factors, HS codes and country of origin.
• System Parameter Logic: Configure replenishment triggers, including minimum/maximum levels, safety stock thresholds, lead times, and economic order quantities (EOQ).
• Storage & Routing Configuration: Define warehouse layout logic within the system, including put-away zones, picking sequences, and temperature-control parameters.
• Data Harmonization: Synchronize inventory profiles across interconnected networks, bridging suppliers, manufacturing facilities, e-commerce platforms, and retail points of sale.
• Mass Data Maintenance: Execute bulk data uploads, cleansing routines, and schema adjustments using SQL, advanced Excel, or data migration tools.
• Lifecycle Change Control: Govern the system workflow for introducing new inventory items, managing product revisions, and phasing out obsolete stock.
• Audit & Compliance: Conduct regular data health audits to identify duplicate records, missing attributes, or broken pricing links.
• Finance & Accounting Configuration: Partner with Finance and Accounting to define item-level financial attributes, including inventory valuation method, costing approach, standard cost or average cost logic, asset versus expense treatment, and required general ledger account mappings.
• Costing, Tax & Compliance Attributes: Maintain ERP fields required for cost rollups, landed cost, taxability, duty classification, capitalization, depreciation, and financial reporting accuracy.
• Country-Specific ERP Setup: Configure and maintain item master attributes required by each operating country or region, including local tax treatment, statutory reporting requirements, customs documentation, tariff and duty classifications, localization fields, currency considerations, and regulatory compliance needs.
• Procurement & Supplier Data Setup: Coordinate with Procurement to maintain supplier part numbers, approved vendor lists, purchasing units of measure, lead times, minimum order quantities, purchase pricing, and sourcing rules.
• Cross-Functional Master Data Governance: Align Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Warehouse Operations, Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Quality, and Compliance teams to ensure item master records are complete, approved, and ready for downstream ERP transactions.
• Global Collaboration: Work with global and regional stakeholders across Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Warehouse Operations, Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Quality, Compliance, and IT to align ERP item master standards, resolve localization needs, and support consistent master data governance across countries.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Industrial Information Systems, Business Analytics, or related field preferred.
• Equivalent combination of education and relevant systems experience may be considered.

Experience

• 5+ years of experience managing item masters, inventory databases, or configuration parameters.
• Experience analyzing large data sets and generating actionable insights.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Strong experience with ERP, MRP, and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS).

Preferred Qualifications

• ERP Proficiency: Hands-on experience configuring inventory modules in major enterprise platforms (e.g., SAP MM/WM, Oracle NetSuite, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, or Infor).
• Technical Toolkit: Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUPs, Power Query); basic knowledge of SQL query writing is highly preferred. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Soft Skills

• Mathematical Precision: Exceptional attention to structural detail to ensure complex unit conversions (e.g., cases to pallets to individual units) compute flawlessly.
• Process Mapping: Ability to visualize how a database field change impacts physical operations in a fulfillment center.
• Cross-Functional Communication: Collaboration skills to translate engineering specs, purchasing terms, and logistics needs into consistent system configurations

Technology Stack

• ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Tulip, or equivalent)
• Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
• Inventory management platforms
• Microsoft Excel (advanced reporting and analysis)
• Microsoft Teams and Office Suite
• Reporting and KPI dashboard tools

Physical Requirements

• Ability to travel periodically between operational sites as required.

This job description may not be inclusive to the duties and responsibilities listed. Additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time or the scope of the job may change as needed by business demands.