HR Master Data Lead | Global Health Tech Firm | London, Hybrid
hace 3 días
City of London
HR Master Data Lead | Global Health Tech Firm | London, Hybrid 📍London or Dublin, Ireland 🪙Competitive salary +benefits 📆Permanent, hybrid working We'e partnered with a global healthcare & life sciences group undergoing significant growth and transformation. They’re investing heavily in their HR technology and data stack and are now hiring an HR Master Data Manager to own and elevate their global HR data landscape. The Role: As the HR Master Data Lead, you will be the authority on HR data integrity, governance and lifecycle management across a complex multinational business. You’ll define how HR data is captured, validated, enriched, secured, and consumed - making sure it becomes a strategic asset, not an operational challenge. You’ll work closely with HR, Technology, Finance and Data teams to improve data structures, optimise ingestion pipelines, enhance reporting outputs, and create meaningful insights leaders can act on. Your work will directly influence data quality, regulatory compliance, employee experience, and global workforce analytics. What you’ll be doing Data Governance, Quality & Standards (Core Focus) • Own end-to-end HR master data governance, including definitions, standards, taxonomies and controls and lead data quality frameworks, audits, cleansing routines and reconciliation processes, • Ensure accuracy and consistency across all HR data domains (people, positions, org structures, compensation, job architecture, etc.), • Oversee how data is ingested, validated, enriched and distributed into downstream systems (Payroll, Finance, IT, Analytics platforms), • Drive continuous improvement to minimise defects, duplication and fragmentation, • Manage the full lifecycle of HR master data including creation, changes, terminations and mass updates, • Support restructures, reorganisations and acquisition-related data harmonisation, • Collaborate with IT/Data teams on data pipelines, integrations and transformation rules, • Develop documentation, data dictionaries and clear governance frameworks, • Maintain and govern data structures within Workday (HCM Core, organisations, positions, job profiles), • Partner with HR Ops and Talent to streamline data processes and improve accuracy at point of entry, • Support Workday releases only where they impact data models, reporting or governance, • Improve how HR data is visualised and consumed across dashboards and leadership reporting, • Partner with BI/Analytics teams to ensure data models and pipelines support strategic workforce insights, • Provide deep-dive data analysis to explain anomalies, trends, and risks, • Maintain strict adherence to GDPR and global data privacy requirements, • Oversee access models, permissioning, audit trails and segregation of duties, • Lead investigations into data errors and drive systemic, sustainable fixes, • Support audits and regulatory reporting with accurate master data outputs Experience Required: • 5+ years in HR data management, master data governance, or HRIS data operations, • Strong understanding of data structures, data modelling, data lifecycle and quality frameworks, • Experience running global data governance programs and defining master data standards, • Good working knowledge of Workday, primarily as the data backbone rather than configuration focus, • Advanced reporting skills (Calculated Fields, BIRT, Prism, or similar BI tools), • Strong analytical mindset with proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex data errors, • Experience supporting integrations, data pipelines or ingestion processes between HR and downstream systems, • Excellent communicator who can influence stakeholders and champion data disciplines, • Experience contributing to HR, data or technology transformation projects (Agile, PMP or Prince2 beneficial) If you're interested in this HR Master Data Lead Role, respond to this advert directly with your updated CV or email it to