Specialist, Data Management (SA)

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 21,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.

Primary purpose:  

Establish and enforce data management excellence standards to optimize manufacturing processes, enhance data analysis techniques, provide practical recommendations to improve Ball's business applications, ensuring data integrity, support decision-making and sustained success. 

What will you be responsible for?  

• Develop and implement standards of excellence in data management to ensure data integrity, security and confidentiality. 
• Design data management solutions that are efficient, scalable and flexible. 
• Analyze data and performance metrics to identify trends, patterns and valuable insights that can assist in strategic decision-making. 
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to understand Manufacturing data needs and ensure they are effectively addressed. 
• Develop and implement data governance policies to ensure that data is collected, stored, processed and used with compliance guidelines. 
• Support IT Team to develop data security strategies to protect Ball's confidential data. 
• Evaluate and select appropriate data management tools and technologies to meet the specific needs of Ball. 
• Conduct regular assessments to monitor data quality and implementing data cleaning, standardization and data improvement processes. 
• Provide training and support to ensure users understanding and effectively use data management tools. 
• Continuously evaluate data management practices and propose improvement to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness Ball's data management processes. 

What are we looking for?  

• Experience doing data management activities and data analysis 
• Experience doing BI Tools and Dashboard management 
• Experience doing integration and leadership of multifunctional teams focused on data generation and analysis 
• Completed Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Data Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline
• Advanced proficiency in BI Tools and dashboard construction (Power BI / Qlik Sense / Tableau) 
• Advanced proficiency in ERP Tools (SAP - PP / MM / PM) 
• Intermediate / advanced proficiency in databases (relational) and data processing (ETL) 
• Intermediate / advanced proficiency in Programming languages (SQL / VBA) 
• Intermediate proficiency in statistics applied to data management and continuous improvement tools, structured problem-solving and agile methodologies. 
• Knowledge of:  
  • Cloud Data Management (Snowflake / Azure) 
  • Industrial Data Managment (Sensing / PLC / Data Concentrator / Scada / MES) 
  • Robotic Process Automation (RPA) / AI / Machine Learning / Data Model 
  • Process Mapping / BPMN 
• Required: English (advanced/fluent)
• Preferred: Spanish (Basic / Intermediate)  

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 21,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.

Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

No agencies please.