Master Data Specialist

The Company:

Cognex is the global leader in the exciting and growing field of machine vision, with annual revenue approaching $1 Billion.  We are a financially strong international company with a culture that maintains the fast-paced, creative environment of a startup.  Our employees, proudly called “Cognoids,” take their work seriously but don't take themselves seriously.  Our Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast culture recognizes our employees for their innovation, perseverance, and hard work in a fun and rewarding environment.  We value in-person team collaboration, while offering remote workplace flexibility up to two days a week depending on the role.

The Team:

The Global Shared Services team delivers transactional finance services in support of multiple regions. This team focuses on processing high-volume, standardized transactions in the most efficient manner to enable the scalability of finance operations globally. This model serves to optimize processes, reduce costs, and ensure consistency and compliance across the organization.

The Role:

The Master Data Specialist is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and integrity of customer, vendor, and material master data within the organization. This role plays a critical part in supporting data management, data quality, and data governance initiatives, ensuring that key data elements are effectively managed to support business operations and decision-making processes. The Master Data Specialist will collaborate with various departments to gather, analyze, create, and update data, as well as troubleshoot data issues and implement process improvements.

Essential Functions:

• Create and maintain master data in business systems, including customers, vendors, and materials.

• Conduct regular data audits to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of master data. Identify and correct data discrepancies.

• Establish and enforce data governance standards, policies, and procedures.

• Identify and implement process improvements to increase productivity around data management and ensure data quality.

• Act as the primary point of contact for master data inquiries.

• Maintain detailed documentation of master data processes, procedures, and data standards.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail – accuracy is critical

• Customer First mentality

• Team player with the ability to work cross-functionally

• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

• Ability to prioritize and proactively drive issues to resolution in a timely manner

• Ability to work independently and take initiative

• Process improvement focus

Minimum education and work experience required:

• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred, or an otherwise equivalent level of experience

• 2+ years of work experience in master data-related role

• Experience with SAP and Salesforce a plus

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, specifically Excel

• English proficiency

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply.