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Sr. Master Data and Data Quality Manager

Bioventus

Bioventus

Data Science, Quality Assurance
Durham, NC, USA
Posted on Dec 22, 2025

Are you ready to work for a more active world?

At Bioventus, our business depends on developing our people. We invest in you and challenge you to be the best. We value our colleagues for their different perspectives and individual contributions, and our leaders listen. Our success rests on working together to achieve shared goals and rewards. Join a diverse team of global colleagues driven to help patients resume and enjoy active lives.

The Sr. Master Data and Data Quality Manager will lead the global optimization and enhancement of our master data to support the operational business process and internal/external reporting requirements. This role will lead and as required upskill the team of dedicated individuals, who are collectively responsible to maintain high-quality master data. In this role, the Sr. Manager will collaborate with various Bioventus teams (e.g. Customer Service, Finance, IT, Operations, BI and Sales Ops), to understand and meet their data requirements while ensuring an exceptional customer experience. The Sr. Manager will also actively look for opportunities to improve team performance, process efficiency, data quality, data governance and report on the relevant KPIs.

What you'll be doing

  • Evaluate existing data sources and processes for improvements, identify, recommend and lead enhancement initiatives, and provide ongoing improvement guidance.
  • Routinely audit master data against established audit rules and support internal and external audit requirements.
  • Architect the Global Data Strategy for SAP Master Data Management (MDM) with a focus on how to utilize data to achieve exceptional growth through data standardization and information management.
  • Responsible for designing and maintaining the governance and quality standards and scorecards to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of the company’s master data globally.
  • Create/Review Business Process Procedures and other training documents for the MDM team and keep them updated.
  • Build a long-term master data strategy, to ensure data accuracy and maintain data integrity.
  • Learn and adapt to new systems and processes and help the MDM team to adapt as well through training.
  • Partner with different departments and meet with the department leaders regularly to poll them for their business and transactional requirements. Then translate those requirements into fields and eventually for reporting.
  • Participate in operational and strategic projects for centralized master data rules and governance.
  • Review existing transactional and business processes to establish greater alignment among internal systems, external data, and information from vendor/alliances.
  • Lead cross-functional efforts to implement an improved initial data set-up, existing data cleansing or mass data creation.
  • Manage and optimize change request process to ensure SLAs are met for MDM requests.
  • Ensure security compliance of master data.
  • Works with IT technical teams to architect and implement integrations and controls over MDM data.
  • Other duties as assigned

What you'll bring to the table

  • BA/BS in Master Data Management, Systems, Computer Science, Business, Operations Research / Management, Engineering, Data Science, Supply Chain or related degree.
  • 8+ years of experience including at least 5 in Master Data / Data Governance / Data Quality / Data Standards
  • Fundamental knowledge concepts, practices and procedures of data management like Taxonomies, ontologies, hierarchies, Data modeling etc.
  • Knowledge of all Master Data areas of SAP with expert level functional skills.
  • Experienced with Sales and Distribution module in SAP/HANA and Microsoft products (Power BI, Word, PowerPoint, Excel). Excellent Excel skills
  • Experience demonstrating business process and functional areas knowledge. (ex. Manufacturing, Warehouse Management, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to report, Finance and Controlling, etc.).
  • Experience with Salesforce, Microsoft dynamics, Pricing systems, contract management systems, SQL Server and SQL language is a plus.
  • Demonstrated experience in managing data set up/process including identification and implementation of process improvements.
  • Experience designing & delivering data quality scorecards.
  • Familiarity with data sources and requirements to operate in today’s Healthcare environment, health systems, IDNs, GPOs, clinics, physicians, payers, PBMs, etc.
  • Ability to quickly develop an understanding of the current master data environment (including systems, policies, processes, and procedures)
  • Action-oriented and skilled in leading successful change management initiatives
  • Leadership. Ability to coach, manage, and mentor/develop a team of staff to ensure congruence with company values and effective execution of all project deliverables.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Able to write for and work with a wide range of audiences, from executives to line workers
  • Proven organizational, detail orientation and time management skills

Are you the top talent we are looking for?

Apply now! Hit the “Apply” button to send us your resume and cover letter.

Bioventus is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of employees with a strong sense of belonging. We believe we are bettered by all forms of diversity and take pride in working with top talent from every walk of life. In the spirit of inclusivity, qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, ethnicity, disability, gender, veteran status, gender expression, gender identity, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.