Senior Manager, SAP Architecture & IT Delivery

Make a difference by becoming part of the No. 1 protein snack manufacturer worldwide as Senior Manager SAP Architecture & IT Delivery at Jack Links EMEA.
Our spacious and modern EMEA HQ is in the vibrant Amsterdam and includes a highly international team with more than 25 different nationalities. Our EMEA team is committed to continuing its impressive EMEA expansion one bite at a time and becoming the regional leader in branded protein snacks. 
This position is based in Amsterdam and you will be reporting to the Regional CFO with a dotted line to the SVP of IT.

The Senior Manager SAP Architecture & IT Delivery is responsible for the enterprise SAP solution architecture the delivery and support of SAP programs across all business domains including Finance Sales Marketing Human Resources Supply Chain and Operations.
This role leads the regional SAP landscape and collaborates with the North America IT team to rollout of the global SAP blueprint across the EMEA Asia Pacific (APAC) and Middle & South America (MASA) regions ensuring adherence to the global template a scalable and integrated architecture and on-time on-budget delivery.

This role will be the primary interface between business functional leaders and the IT delivery teams and will partner closely with North America leaders who own key program resources and with the system integrators offshore delivery teams. This will be accomplished through a combination of deep SAP architecture expertise program leadership trusted business relationships and strong communication skills.

• Leadership: Lead a team of functional and technical analysts and offshore and system integrator resources across EMEA APAC and MASA to deliver competitively advantaged solutions.
• Plan and execute the regional SAP roadmap translate demand into required delivery and support capacity and engage Global IT through established portfolio and resource-planning forums to review changing regional needs global impacts and resource priorities.
• Collaborate with business and IT teams through a regional demand-management cadence to align priorities sequence initiatives against available capacity and escalate required trade-offs.
• Lead coach engage and professionally develop team members building a high-performing culturally diverse team that operates effectively across multiple time zones.
• Strengthening communication and operating rhythms between international regions and North America IT teams ensuring timely visibility into regional demand priorities resource needs dependencies and the status of ongoing initiatives.
• SAP Architecture & Strategy: Serve as the regional steward of the global SAP blueprint and template established in North America applying its architecture standards integration patterns and design principles while balancing global standardization with regional and statutory requirements.
• Partners with North America architects and process owners to govern fit-gap decisions and regional extensions and feed regional requirements and lessons learned back into the global blueprint.
• Develop and implement SAP and enterprise application roadmaps including S/4HANA transformation SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and cloud adoption aligned to business goals.
• Govern integration architecture between SAP and surrounding platforms such as UKG Martech MES WMS TMS and third-party logistics systems.
• Identify and evaluate new technology solutions and present findings and recommendations to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Program Delivery & Regional Migrations: Collaborate with North America leaders who own key program resources (e.g. process owners architects developers and data teams) to secure plan and prioritize shared capacity for regional rollouts.
• Lead the rollout of the North America global SAP blueprint to EMEA APAC and MASA including the planning and delivery of S/4HANA migrations system consolidations and upgrades.
• Coordinate offshore delivery resources with the system integrator aligning onshore offshore and North America teams on scope schedule handoffs and quality across time zones.
• Manage program risks issues and dependencies and provide clear status reporting to steering committees and executive sponsors.
• Oversee data migration testing cutover hyper care and transition to support ensuring minimal disruption to supply chain manufacturing and financial operations.
• Ensure countrys localization requirements including statutory reporting tax e-invoicing language and currency are addressed in each regional deployment.
• Drive organizational change management training and user adoption in partnership with business and regional leaders.
• Business Partnership & Vendor Management: Serve as a trusted advisor to functional leaders across Finance Sales Marketing HR Supply Chain and Operations sharing leading practices benchmarking and peer company insights to ensure solutions enable bottom-line growth.
• Translate business requirements into scalable solutions and articulate technical concepts in terms of business value.
• Stay current on SAP product direction and industry trends to continuously improve system performance and user experience.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications :

EU Citizenship and/or valid work permit is required. Please note that relocation assistance is not available for this position. All applications must be submitted in English as it is the companys corporate language.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering Supply Chain Management or a related disciplineor equivalent experience. A masters degree or MBA is preferred.
• 10 years of SAP experience (mix of ECC and S/4HANA) including 5 years in an SAP solution or enterprise architecture role.
• Proven track record leading full-lifecycle SAP implementations and S/4HANA migrations including multi-country rollouts across EMEA APAC and/or MASA.
• Experience rolling out a global SAP template or blueprint to multiple regions and leading in a matrixed organization by influencing resources outside a direct reporting line.
• 7 years of experience leading and mentoring team members including global distributed and offshore teams.
• Strong program management skills including budget vendor and system integrator management and coordination of onshore/offshore delivery models.
• Demonstrated thought leadership strategic thinking problem-solving and prioritization skills with a high degree of learning agility to flow between business functions.
• Excellent interpersonal written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate influence and build relationships across cultures with a variety of audiences including executive leadership vendors and business teams. Additional languages a plus.

Additional Information :

Our benefits 
At Link Snacks youll find a competitive compensation and benefits package that supports performance flexibility and employee well-being! 

• A competitive salary and excellent bonus scheme (above market)  

• In addition to public holidays you will benefit from 27 days of paid annual leave to rest recharge and maintain a healthy worklife balance. 

• Hybrid working model becausewe believe the future of work is based on a modern adaptable and agile workplace culture. 3 days from our office in Amsterdam and 2 home office days. 

• Pension Scheme we support your long-term financial well-being through a company-supported pension plan. 
• Lunch on Mondays and nutritious snacks and fruit throughout the week

• Work from home allowance & commuting allowance to help cover your travel costs between home and the office. 

• You will be part of a vibrant dynamic and international team! Throughout the year we organize a variety of team activities and initiatives designed to strengthen collaboration encourage knowledge sharing and foster a strong sense of belonging. 

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer 
Link Snacks provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic that is protected by federal state or local law. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time