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Lactalis American Group Inc. Senior Manager, SAP Supply Chain Applications in Chicago, Illinois
Senior Manager, SAP Supply Chain Applications
Chicago, IL (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=540+West+Madison+Street+Chicago+IL+USA+60661) • IT
Job Type
Full-time
Description
TITLE: Sr. Manager, SAP Supply Chain Applications
REPORTS TO: Director of Applications, Lactalis US
LOCATION: Chicago, IL
Lactalis Heritage Dairy is currently seeking candidates to join our team in Chicago!
Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.
If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!
Lactalis Heritage Dairy: inviting you to share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE.
From yourPASSIONto ours
Be a Technology Leader at Lactalis! In this position you will play a key role in providing overall technology leadership for the enterprise applications used by the Supply Chain functions of the Lactalis US Businesses. You will need to have both strategic and tactical capabilities, excellence in business processes, and a deep understanding of SAP solutions as well as other enterprise applications.
The Senior Manager, SAP Supply Chain Applications is responsible for leading a team to manage the successful build and run activities for the related workstreams. Through partnership with IT and the relevant business teams, the SAP Supply Chain Applications Team is accountable for providing ongoing process and application support and identifying way to improve performance for sales and distribution, procurement, materials management and warehousing.
From yourEXPERTISEto ours
Key responsibilities for this position include:
Execute an Enterprise Application Strategy within the defined workstreams that is aligned with business objectives
Manage the successful build and run activities, within the defined workstream, for a US SAP S/4 solution across multiple business units
Provide insights and guidance on supporting and deploying related SAP applications and bolt-on solutions
Ensure effective consultation with the various business partners (internal & external) in exploring and applying innovative solution ideas to address business opportunities and challenges
Oversee application enhancement requests with the business teams while managing the resource allocation according to priorities
Lead pilots and proof of concept sessions for potential solutions to elicit requirements with a strong focus on business capability maturity to drive prioritization discussions
Define and maintain business requirement documentation standards to ensure sufficient detail and clarity, collaborating with business partners to ensure that these are captured correctly with clear and complete understanding of process and technology implications
Lead a team of 4+ SAP analysts
Lead and manage business case development and ROI presentations
Be a key liaison between IT and the business teams to plan and execute high value-based projects
Manage technical standards and SAP Template standards in accordance with the SAP Governance committee policies
Travel may be required for on-site support at Lactalis facilities
Requirements
From yourSTORYto ours
Qualified applicants will contribute the following:
Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Business or other related academic discipline
12+ years experience in a large-scale, enterprise environment
10+ years experience in providing Supply Chain solutions, preferably within an SAP environment utilizing a CoE support model
5+ years experience as a manager of people
Experience in the Food Industry and/or Consumer Products preferred
Strong background in ERP concepts and functionality in an SAP S/4 HANA environment, including master data management, procurement, order to cash and warehousing
Experience with Demand & Supply applications is preferred, e.g., FuturMaster
Experience with external Warehousing applications is preferred, e.g., Infolog
Experience with Trade Promotion Management application is preferred, e.g., Vistex
Experience with Transportation Management is preferred, e.g., Ortec
Experience working with related Business Unit stakeholders to refine and consolidate a shared service application support and development team to meet business needs
Experience and knowledge of end-to-end IT software development lifecycle from idea conception through planning, requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, support and transition into operations teams
Experience with the alignment to a global model and management of localizations
Strong analytical, time-management and facilitation skills
Independent, self-motivated, self-managing, proactive and responsive with a bias for action and results
High level of personal integrity consistent with the client’s core values
Proficiency in support ticket and project management applications
Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
Lactalis Heritage Dairy is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.