Customer Onboarding & Data Governance Manager

Own the design and governance of AWC's end-to-end customer administrative lifecycle, from signed commitment through full operational status and ongoing maintenance.

Establish the enterprise standard for how customer setup and maintenance should move across systems and departments, including: Customer commitment and handoff from Sales Credit, KYC, and fraud screening coordination — verifying customer identity and legitimacy and screening for fraud risk before extending credit; screening itself is performed by Credit, with completion confirmed by this role before account activation Customer master record creation and validation Tax setup and payment terms configuration Pricing and rebate data coordination with the Pricing & Rebate Analyst (data accuracy only; pricing strategy remains owned by Pricing & Rebate) Shipping, billing, invoicing, and technology/portal (EDI, AP automation) requirements capture Account activation (go-live) Post-go-live stabilization Ongoing maintenance and periodic account review

Customer commitment and handoff from Sales

Credit, KYC, and fraud screening coordination — verifying customer identity and legitimacy and screening for fraud risk before extending credit; screening itself is performed by Credit, with completion confirmed by this role before account activation

Customer master record creation and validation

Tax setup and payment terms configuration

Pricing and rebate data coordination with the Pricing & Rebate Analyst (data accuracy only; pricing strategy remains owned by Pricing & Rebate)

Shipping, billing, invoicing, and technology/portal (EDI, AP automation) requirements capture

Account activation (go-live)

Post-go-live stabilization

Ongoing maintenance and periodic account review

Define clear process stages, required inputs and outputs, roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and handoffs across Sales, Credit, AR, Legal, Logistics, and IT.

Establish process ownership and cross-functional accountability for customer administrative data and timely completion of required handoffs.

Ensure processes are designed around the end-to-end customer lifecycle and data accuracy, rather than optimizing individual departments or activities.

Own customer master data validation and clean-up in direct preparation for AWC's ERP implementation — a major focus area of this role in its first 12-18 months.

Lead a full audit of existing customer master data across current systems to identify duplicates, missing or incomplete records, outdated addresses, and inconsistent tax or credit information.

Define data quality standards and validation rules for customer master fields ahead of ERP conversion.

Partner directly with the ERP project team on data mapping, conversion test loads, and mock cutover cycles, flagging and resolving data issues before they reach production.

Validate converted customer data post-migration, reconcile discrepancies against source systems, and formally sign off on data readiness before go-live.

Facilitate cross-functional sessions with Sales, Credit, and AR to understand current-state data challenges and establish scalable future-state standards.

Identify and improve legacy practices, duplicate work, unclear ownership, and unnecessary local variations in how customer data is captured and maintained.

Translate inconsistent or undocumented customer setup practices into clear, practical, repeatable enterprise standards.

Establish governance mechanisms that keep customer master data accurate, current, and consistently maintained.

Document and define process owners, contributors, decision rights, and escalation paths across Sales, Credit, AR, Legal, Logistics, and IT.

Maintain segregation of duties between customer account setup and credit approval; partner with Credit to confirm KYC and fraud screening are complete before account activation, without owning the credit decision itself.

Establish standards for when and how customer master data may be changed, including maker-checker approval on sensitive fields (credit terms, tax status).

Create mechanisms for identifying and addressing re-onboarding or account review triggers (M&A, ownership change, significant volume change, new locations, expiring certificates or contracts).

Maintain a full audit trail of customer master data changes and ensure compliance-related documentation (tax certificates, insurance, contracts) remains current.

Establish KPIs that measure the health of the customer onboarding and maintenance process (cycle time, first-invoice accuracy, data quality/duplicate rate, re-onboarding responsiveness).

Identify bottlenecks, recurring failures, and root causes across the customer administrative lifecycle.

Lead cross-functional improvement efforts that reduce rework, delays, and administrative friction for Sales, Credit, and AR.

Establish a disciplined approach for continuously evaluating and improving the customer maintenance function and its supporting SOP.

Build stakeholder alignment across Sales, Credit, AR, Legal, Logistics, and IT around the new centralized customer maintenance process.

Clearly communicate the business rationale and customer impact behind the new function and any process changes.

Manage a staffing model that may include internal transfers and contract/temporary resources during the ERP implementation period.

Assess the long-term operating model, organizational structure, and staffing needs for the Customer Maintenance function as the ERP implementation progresses, and recommend a scalable future-state model within 12-18 months.

Monitor adoption of the new intake process and standardized workflow, and adjust based on feedback without allowing informal workarounds to re-enter the process.

The Customer Onboarding & Data Governance Manager will help create an environment where:

Customer onboarding is clear, consistent, and easy to navigate from signed commitment through full operational status.

Cross-functional roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and handoffs across Sales, Credit, AR, Legal, Logistics, and IT are understood and consistently followed.

Customer requirements — shipping, billing, invoicing, and technology/portal — are captured accurately and only once.

Customer master data is accurate, de-duplicated, and ready for ERP conversion.

Segregation of duties between account setup and credit approval is real, enforced, and auditable.

Pricing and rebate data is accurate in the customer master record, with clear ownership resting with the Pricing & Rebate Analyst.

Re-onboarding and account review triggers are proactively identified and addressed rather than missed.

Teams across the enterprise operate from one standardized process rather than department-specific workarounds.

Leaders have meaningful metrics to understand the health of the customer administrative lifecycle.

AWC can scale to more customers, locations, and system complexity without adding unnecessary rework or risk.

Prior experience leading customer or vendor master data clean-up as part of an ERP implementation, from audit through post-conversion validation

Experience designing or leading a centralized customer master data / customer maintenance function from the ground up

Familiarity with EDI and AP automation/invoicing portals (e.g., Ariba, Coupa, Tungsten)

Comfort managing a blended team of permanent staff and contract/temporary resources during a project-driven workload surge

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

401(K) Match

Competitive Pay

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Package

Employer Paid Life Insurance

Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay

Career Development Opportunities

As employee co-owners, we're driven to do more than complete tasks; we build fulfilling careers by challenging assumptions and continually raising the bar. We embrace creative, innovative approaches to deepen our expertise and deliver real value to our customers.

We partner strategically with many of the world's most recognized technology brands to help engineering, reliability, and maintenance teams solve complex problems. As experts in our partners' technologies, we're equipped to properly size, select, configure, and support the right solutions. Our goal is simple: combine caring, knowledgeable people with innovative technologies to help our customers succeed.

We are committed to solving customer problems and welcome team members that want to be the trusted resource to those looking for a partner who out-knows, out-cares, and out-serves everyone else. Every day, we strive to deliver on our mission to empower people to make the greatest positive impact for the communities and families we serve together. Our Winning Together culture starts with a shared commitment to building an environment of inclusiveness, trust, and mutual respect. We know that when people like you are safe to pursue your passions, to learn, to serve, and to share in the rewards from our combined efforts, then we are winning together.