# Product Data Manager

**Company**: McLaren Automotive
**Location**: Woking
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351854

**Apply**: https://mclarencareers.mclaren.com/careers/JobDetail/Product-Data-Manager/59109
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_aa09e397-86b

## Description

To lead a Product Data Management function, ensuring accurate, compliant, and optimised product data across the engineering and manufacturing lifecycle. The role is accountable for product data governance, Bill of Materials (EBOM / MBOM) integrity, and Material Master data quality. The Product Data Manager acts as a strategic partner to Engineering, Manufacturing, Variant Configuration, Program Management, Purchasing, Logistics, Sales, and IT, providing functional leadership, data assurance, and continuous improvement across all product data activities.

### Responsibilities

- Lead, manage, and develop the Product Data Management team, ensuring skills, capability, and capacity are aligned to business and program needs.

- Define, own, and enforce product data governance standards covering EBOM, MBOM, Material Master, configuration logic, and data quality best practices.

- Provide functional oversight of all PDM operational activities, including Bill of Materials creation, validation, simulation, release, and material master extension.

- Ensure robust coordination and delivery of Engineering / Manufacturing Record (Releasing) PDM activities in line with program timing and project gateways.

- Act as the senior escalation point and subject matter expert for product data and BoM related issues across Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and Programs.

- Represent Product Data Management at programme and governance forums, including change control, launch readiness, and build meetings, presenting BoM accuracy and data readiness.

- Partner with IT and Digital teams to guide best practice use of 3DX/SAP PLM, Material Master, and related systems.

### Key Results / Objectives

- Delivery of accurate, release-ready Engineering and Manufacturing BoMs aligned to product, variant, and pack specifications.

- Consistently delivers high-quality PDM Material Master data across all programmes and blocks.

- Improved BoM accuracy, stability, and readiness at all programme gateways.

- Reduction of late changes, rework, and production risk caused by product data issues.

- Development of a capable, accountable Product Data Management team with clear performance expectations.

### Knowledge, Skills and Experience

- Proven leadership experience within Product Data Management, PLM, Engineering Operations, or a related discipline.

- Strong functional and technical knowledge of SAP PLM (EBOM, MBOM, MM); familiarity with 3DX is beneficial.

- Solid understanding of engineering release processes, workflow management, and variant configuration principles.

- Experience defining and operating data governance frameworks and system-based rules and logic.

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret, challenge, and improve data quality and processes.

### Personal Attributes

- Strategic thinker with a strong delivery and results-oriented mindset.

- Confident communicator capable of influencing and engaging stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.

- Highly organised, detail-focused, and committed to data quality and good data behaviours.

- Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable operating in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment.

- Open to change, continuous learning, and solving unfamiliar or complex problems.

### What We'll Do for You

We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

- Structured career development framework

- 25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days

- Enhanced company pension scheme

- Discretionary annual bonus award

- Private medical insurance and health cash plan

- Life assurance benefit

- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years' service

- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

- Generous parental leave policies

- A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice

## Skills

### Required
- SAP PLM
- EBOM
- MBOM
- Material Master
- Data Governance
- Data Quality
- Engineering Release Processes
- Workflow Management
- Variant Configuration Principles