Central Data Management (CDM)

Position Overview

Join our team as a Central Data Management professional, supporting critical SAP material data and processes. This role plays a key part in ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and collaboration across multiple business functions.

Relationships

• Reports to the Materials Manager
• No supervisory responsibility
• Interacts & communicates with Material, Fin acct, cost acct, purchasing, product managers, warehouse & production personnel at BUS
• CDM personnel at BAU

Responsibilities & Duties

• Manage new item setups for all BUS material (With a primary focus on Equipment spare parts manufacturing and procurement)
• Maintain basic data for the Material Master in SAP
• Maintain all Bills of Materials in SAP
• Maintain packaging instructions
• Create new routings
• Maintain tariff codes
• Provide Materials Master custom reporting when necessary
• Expected to work independently as well as in group settings

Education

• HS diploma or GED required
• 2-year degree in a related field is preferred
• Equivalent training & experience can be substituted

Experience

• 2 years of related experience in a medium sized industrial manufacturing company preferred
• 1 year of machining experience

Knowledge

• Product Knowledge, Materials Planning, New Product Introduction, Cost Accounting, Material Lifecycle
• Customs Classification methodology
• SAP/ERP systems
• Weight, monetary & units-of-measure conversions
• Blueprint Reading and understanding of tolerances
• Planning and Executing machining production processes
• General understanding of technical specifications

Foundation Skills

• Effective oral & written communication skills
• Ability to deal with frequently priorities
• Ability to develop collaborative relationships with all levels of the organization

Foundation Skills (cont.)

• Taking a systematic approach to solving problems by analyzing all relevant facts/issues before determining the root cause
• Detail-oriented & well-organized
• Inspecting/evaluating the quality of work produced
• Meet tight deadlines without sacrificing accuracy & attention to detail
• Management of one’s time to achieve goals
• Computer hardware & software applications including Outlook, Microsoft Office 365 applications, SAP, BBA, LMS, Confluence, CICS

Company Overview

For more than 60 years Blum has been manufacturing superior quality hinge systems, drawer runners, and lift systems that create motion and enhance user convenience in the kitchen. With every product, we strive to develop solutions to ensure that cabinet doors and drawers open with ease, close softly and effortlessly, and make workflow and everyday kitchen use easier. 

Today, Blum has nine production plants in Austria, and manufacturing sites in Brazil, Poland and the United States. Approximately 9000 Blum employees all over the world focus on product innovation.

Benefits 

Blum USA believes in offering their employees an excellent benefits package that includes: