Regional Customer Data Steward EMEA

General Management

Spain, Alcobendas

July 5 2026

Full time

Permanent

Job benefits

Competitive salary and bonus scheme

Continuous personnel development (e-learnings & projects)

Free day to volunteer

About the position

Are you passionate about data quality, governance, and driving business excellence across international teams? Join us and play a key role in shaping the integrity and effectiveness of customer master data across the EMEA region.

Your responsibilities and tasks

As our Regional Customer Data Steward EMEA, you will be the go-to expert for customer master data, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance across the NPE division.

Own and monitor customer master data quality for the assigned region for the NPE division

Enforce GEA Group and divisional customer data standards, policies, and governance rules

Execute and steer deduplication, merging, obsoletion, and cleansing activities

Support and coach local customer data stewards and build a regional steward community

Act as escalation point for complex customer master data cases (e.g. duplicates, unclear account hierarchies)

Support SAP S/4HANA (MDG‑C) and CRM operations and ensure compliance with customer data workflows

Support Transform360 data readiness, including data quality monitoring and validation

Provide transparency on data quality KPIs, risks, and improvement progress

Perform testing of data related changes in CRM/MDG, raise defects, and provide concrete feedback to central product/process teams

Document operating procedures/SOPs and work instructions for regional execution (request validation, enrichment rules, approvals, escalation paths), and keep them current

Collaborate daily with Sales, Service, Finance and Data Governance counterparts to unblock requests and ensure smooth order to cash handoffs (e.g., correct addresses/VAT to prevent invoice rejections)

Your profile and qualifications

Experience in Master Data Management, preferably customer master data

Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA Customer Master and MDG-C

Experience with CRM systems, preferably Sales & Service Cloud

Experience in a B2B, industrial, or project-based business environment is a plus

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Ability to work effectively across functions, teams, and regions

A structured, detail-oriented mindset with the confidence to enforce standards in a matrix organization

Fluent in English. Only applications submitted in English will be considered.

We offer:

Attractive compensation package aligned with experience and responsibilities

Private health insurance plan

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible working hours and a hybrid working model (up to two days per week remote)

23 days of vacation per year

Great work environment as part of a collaborative team

Continuous internal training and career development opportunities, both nationally and internationally

The opportunity to join a company recognized as a Top Employer 2026

About GEA

GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success – come and join them! We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.

Why join GEA