Deployment data quality lead

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

 

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

The Deployment Data Quality Lead will play a key role in supporting the organisation’s ERP transformation programme and part code change initiative. Working closely with business stakeholders, functional teams, and the wider programme team, the role will be responsible for understanding business data requirements, improving data quality, supporting data governance activities, and leading data migration activities into SAP S/4 HANA.

The successful candidate will act as the bridge between business teams and technical/data migration teams, ensuring that data is accurate, complete, governed, and fit for purpose throughout the transformation lifecycle.

• Engage with business stakeholders to understand and document data requirements across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and operational functions
• Support due diligence activities relating to existing master and transactional data
• Analyse current-state data structures, identify data quality issues, and recommend remediation activities
• Lead and coordinate activities relating to part code changes and associated data impacts
• Define and support data cleansing, enrichment, validation, and harmonisation activities
• Support the design and execution of data migration strategies into SAP S/4 HANA
• Work with functional and technical teams to define data mapping, transformation, and validation requirements
• Coordinate and support data migration testing cycles, reconciliation, and defect resolution
• Establish and monitor data quality metrics and controls
• Promote good data governance practices and support the development of sustainable data ownership processes
• Build strong working relationships across programme teams and business functions to ensure alignment and engagement
• Support cutover and go-live activities from a data perspective
• Support ad hoc projects as part of the convergence agenda as required, ensuring data requirements / demands are met

 

• Comfortable working with large and complex datasets from multiple business systems and sources
• Experience driving improvements in data quality, governance, and data management processes
• Previous experience supporting ERP implementations or large-scale transformation programmes
• Experience working with SAP ERP platforms, ideally SAP S/4 HANA (data structures and migration principles)
• Proven experience supporting or leading data migration activities
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trusted relationships across business and technical teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability with excellent attention to detail
• Effective communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders at varying levels of the organisation
• Experience working within manufacturing, supply chain, or finance environments is desirable
• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills; experience with data tools and reporting platforms advantageous
• Understanding of master and transactional data sets typically associated with finance, supply chain, procurement, inventory, and manufacturing
• Good knowledge of data governance principles and best practices
• Understanding of data lifecycle management, data quality controls, and data remediation techniques

 

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.