Celine Master Data Lead

About Celine

Founded in Paris in 1945 by Céline Vipiana, Celine is a storied French luxury house renowned for its modernist elegance, exacting craftsmanship, and quietly powerful vision of contemporary style. As part of LVMH, the Maison offers employees the opportunity to contribute to a global brand while remaining rooted in Parisian heritage, artisanal excellence, and creative discipline. Celine seeks individuals who combine cultural sensitivity, precision, and entrepreneurial spirit across design, merchandising, retail, operations, and corporate functions. The house fosters an environment where talent is expected to uphold exceptional standards, shape refined client experiences, and participate in the continuing evolution of a distinctive luxury identity.

Role & Responsibilities

• Define and manage the IS roadmap, priorities, and governance principles for the Master Data domain, ensuring alignment with Celine’s strategy and architecture.
• Clarify Business and IS roles for each data object and its lifecycle.
• Prepare decisions and trade-offs by outlining options, impacts, risks, costs, and timelines, and represent the domain in project and IS governance forums.
• Gather, consolidate, and challenge requirements from Business Managers, Process Owners, and Key Users, translating them into functional and technical requirements for IS and the integrator.
• Liaise between Business stakeholders, SAP teams, and other IS Leads to define priorities, data quality, and data responsibilities.
• Participate in solution design workshops, promoting a simple approach based on standard SAP.
• Ensure end-to-end data consistency across products, items, customers, suppliers, partners, bills of materials, organizational structures, and prices.
• Define and document master systems and data management rules; secure interfaces and data flows between SAP and contributing applications, ensuring traceability and compliance.
• Define the migration scope, transformation rules, and quality criteria with the integrator and Data teams.
• Lead data migration, reconciliation, and loading, and identify and resolve anomalies such as duplicates, incomplete data, or inaccurate data through metrics and remediation plans.
• Coordinate SAP, legacy, Data Platform, integration, reporting, infrastructure, and security teams, and manage cross-functional dependencies across Sales, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, and other areas.
• Track deliverables, milestones, risks, and costs, and raise alerts when plans deviate.
• Contribute to all programme phases—design, build, testing, migration, cutover, go-live, and hypercare—and ensure test readiness.
• Organize the handover to AMS and RUN, including documentation and governance, and establish service and continuous-improvement metrics.
• Champion the SAP programme vision to simplify processes, applications, and data flows.
• Work closely with experts to translate business challenges into sustainable IS solutions.
• Make complex topics accessible and facilitate decision-making between Business and IS.
• Effectively coordinate contributors without direct hierarchical authority.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree, Master’s degree in Information Systems, Data, or a related field.
• Experience leading Master Data solutions in an international, cross-functional environment.
• Strong knowledge of data creation, modification, extension, and deletion processes.
• Expertise in data governance, quality, security, and migration concepts.
• Good functional knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and core Master Data objects.
• Good knowledge of product and material master data, its key attributes, and lifecycle.
• Understanding of application architectures, interfaces, data flows, and master systems.
• Ability to manage vendors, deliverables, schedules, risks, and budgets.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with business and technical stakeholders.
• Cross-functional leadership, change management, proactivity, pragmatism, and a solutions-oriented approach.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Fluent French and English.

Skills

Experience

At least 7 years in a similar role, ideally within an SAP S/4HANA transformation programme; experience leading Master Data solutions in an international, cross-functional environment.

Education

Engineering degree, Master’s degree in Information Systems, Data, or a related field.

Culture

Celine cultivates a refined, exacting workplace where creativity, discipline, and a deep respect for Parisian elegance shape every decision. As an employer, it values craftsmanship, cultural awareness, and strong individual ownership, offering teams an environment that is both demanding and inspiring within the world of luxury fashion.

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