Associate Master Data Analyst

Perdue Farms is a family-owned food and agriculture company now in its second century of growth and innovation.  We were founded on trust—a value that carries through everything we do. Perdue Foods is a leader in Premium Proteins and Perdue AgriBusiness ranks among the top US grain companies. 

Summary

We are recruiting for an Associate Master Data Analyst. This position will support operations by monitoring and analyzing material and production master data, key data, and master relationship data within the organization.  Collaborative involvement with department associates in decision making for the compliance of established data governance rules and procedures and activities within the Supply Chain.  This role is onsite at our Salisbury, MD Corporate Offices.

The salary range for this position is $56,000 - $83,000 per year, based on experience and qualifications with annual bonus available (variable depending on performance).  

In addition to the base salary, Perdue offers a competitive benefits package, including medical/Rx, 401(k) with employer match after 1 year, critical illness, accident insurance, dental, vison, life insurance, optional group life insurance, short-term and long-term disability protection, flexible spending accounts and paid time off.  

Principal and Essential Duties & Responsibilities

1. Ensures master data integrity in key systems as well as maintaining the processes to support the data quality. Identifies areas for data quality improvements and helps to resolve data quality problems through the appropriate choice of error detection and correction, process control and improvement, or process design strategies.

2.  Ensures quality of master data in key systems, as well as, development and documentation of processes with other functional data owners to support ongoing maintenance and data integrity. In collaboration with Supervisor/Lead, subject matter experts and data stewards.  Assists in design and implementation of data strategy, policies, controls, and programs to ensure the enterprise data is accurate, complete, secure, and reliable.

3. Assists with managing, analyzing, and resolving data initiative issues with close direction of supervisor to best meet internal and customer requirements while adhering to published data standards.

4.  Provides assistance to Manager and makes some independent decisions for resolving data quality problems through the appropriate choice of error detection and correction, process control and improvement, or process design strategies collaborating with subject matter experts (SMEs) and data stewards.

5. Work closely with the business/IT to ensure alignment of master data rules and the operations of the application meet all requirements.

6. Assists in writing queries in Cransoft, writing load programs from Cransoft to SAP, maintaining Optiva data and performing advanced functions in Excel (writing Macros) and other applications for analysis and report outputs.  Also assists with maintaining and flowing data to GDS, IWorldSync Salsify and other 3rd party systems.

Minimum Education and Experience Required

REQUIRED:  A.A. degree or equivalent combination of education and 0-3 years’ experience.  Or a Bachelor’s degree in Information science, data management, computer science or related field preferred.

PREFERRED:  

• Very Good analytical skills and problem- solving skills.
• Good personal computer and business solutions software skills.
• Ability to apply learned techniques to critical thinking skills to achieve successful results for the company.
• Ability to work on a team and independently.

Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements

• Position is mostly sedentary but may require occasional moving to other offices or buildings.
• May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another.
• May need to access files, supplies and equipment.
• Work activity is in an office, open-partitioned, cubicle environment.
• May require on call or off hours for projects or break-fix issues.

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Perdue Farms, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.