Data Product Specialist

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:

The Product Data Specialist is dedicated to tasks related to accurately maintaining Fisher Scientific’s product data attributes in our ERP system and PDH (Product Data Hub) in a timely manner while complying with standard operating procedures and ensuring appropriate approvals are received.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads daily Lean meetings across Product Administration, Trade Compliance, and Regulatory teams to ensure 48-hour SLA adherence for item creation while identifying process gaps and driving continuous improvement solutions.
• Executes daily item activation requests from Portfolio Management, Supply Chain, Sales, and Customer Service, ensuring accurate and timely entry of all ERP attributes (e.g., Canadian cost, product classification codes).
• Owns new supplier and item master creation processes, managing varying volumes of item lists while coordinating cross-functionally to ensure prioritized and compliant ERP implementation.
• Processes item lifecycle changes including discontinuations, reactivations, eliminations, and unit-of-measure updates to maintain supply chain continuity and system accuracy.
• Completes Annual Supplier Pricing project by reviewing input data for accuracy and completeness, validating those+/- agreed upon variance; executing necessary steps to move data through the appropriate workflow approval process; ensuring the output data is loaded into the appropriate systems; executes on any required item maintenance changes as a result of annual price roll. Communication with Product Services, Portfolio Management, Supply Chain, Suppliers, Pricing Analyst and Contracts Manager is required throughout this process.          
• Completes off-cycle price changes & communicate impact with appropriate stakeholders.
• Ensures strict adherence to 25+ critical processes and work instructions while reinforcing cross-functional compliance to maintain regulatory, pricing, and master data integrity.
• Drives ongoing data cleansing and harmonization initiatives to align Canadian and US item attributes, minimizing downstream system disruption and improving reporting accuracy.
• Develops and delivers ad hoc reports using Cognos BI, Excel, and Access to support business decision-making, pricing validation, and operational analysis.   

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors/College Degree in business/science or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years of experience working with data analysis and large datasets.
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and Access, including data analysis, reporting, and database management functions.
• Ability to analyze data and draw actionable conclusions from analysis
• Demonstrated ability to analyze issues, determine root cause and downstream impact, and develop practical, sustainable solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Highly organized with meticulous attention to detail, ensuring data accuracy and process compliance.
• Ability to independently manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality and timeliness.
• Proactive and deadline-driven, consistently delivering results within established project timelines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Compensation