Director, Product Master Data
Posted Aug 18, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you got business leaders to take ownership of data quality.
What they are checking: Whether they can influence across functions, which the posting says is central.
Tell me about a master data platform you helped choose or implement.
What they are checking: Whether they have real experience with MDM platform design and rollout.
What would you do
A business unit keeps creating products outside the governed workflow to move faster. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they can enforce governance while fixing the slowness that causes workarounds.
About the work
How would you set up a Master Data Center of Excellence in a company where product data is owned in many places today?
What they are checking: Whether they can design an operating model that centralizes governance while keeping business ownership.
What are critical data elements for product master data in a medical supply company, and how would you choose them?
What they are checking: Whether they can focus governance on the fields that drive compliance, orders and customer experience.
How does product master data support regulatory compliance, like UDI and GUDID?
What they are checking: Whether they connect data quality to the regulatory duties of a device distributor.
How would you measure product data quality and show its business value to executives?
What they are checking: Whether they can tie data quality to results leaders care about, like fewer order errors.
How would you design product taxonomy so it works for e-commerce, supply chain and regulatory teams?
What they are checking: Whether they can balance the needs of very different data users.
What does product data need to look like before it can support automation and AI?
What they are checking: Whether they understand the data foundation needed for automation, which the posting names.
How would you build and lead the team for this function?
What they are checking: Whether they know what roles and skills a master data organization needs.
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