Flowers Foods & Subsidiaries · 10 hours ago
Lead Process & Solutions Supply Chain Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$125K/yr - $140K/yr
15+ years expFlowers Foods, Inc. is a leading producer of packaged bakery goods in the United States, dedicated to crafting moments of joy with every product. The Lead Process & Solutions Supply Chain Architect role provides technical expertise in SAP Supply Chain solutions, overseeing the application landscape and leading a team to ensure effective integration and governance of these systems.
BakeryConsumerFood and BeverageFood Processing
Responsibilities
Role oversees all activities that optimize value, cost and risk of SAP Supply Chain applications:
Develop and execute the vision, strategy, roadmap and implementation of performance indicators and supporting metrics and trends for SAP Supply Chain solutions and SAP related 3rd party Supply Chain applications
Lead overall SAP Supply Chain functional activities in partnership with Business Relationship Management Supply Chain Team, SAP Development, SAP Analytics teams and the SAP managed, and SAP related 3rd party Supply Chain application service providers
Continually assess the impact of emerging SAP technologies against strategic business needs and interpret business value for the leadership team in a consultative capacity
Ensure the consistency and maintainability of new and existing SAP Supply Chain applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing technical and quality standards, guidance and reference architectures
Perform day-to-day management of the SAP Supply Chain applications and hold all Supply Chain application delivery teams accountable for optimizing the cost, risk and value of SAP Supply Chain applications and SAP related 3rd party Supply Chain applications throughout their life cycle
Mentor SAP Supply Chain personnel to develop the required skills and capabilities to meet the needs of the organization, as well as building on existing recruiting capabilities to address new needs and skills gaps
Develop productive relationships with business leaders across the organization to influence how SAP Supply Chain applications can enable new sources of value
Manage relationship with managed service provider to ensure they cost-effectively meet the needs of the organization
Execute and enhance methodologies (i.e. Agile, Waterfall) and practices for the application life cycle management in line with best practice and practical experience of continuous improvement
Ensure that supply chain applications processes (including those of external service providers) are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, environmental and technical policies and applicable standards and legislation
Implement and manage application life cycle management status reporting, metrics and benchmarks for SAP Supply Chain and SAP related 3rd party Supply Chain applications
Oversee the SAP Supply Chain applications organization's successful delivery of business outcomes in partnership with business colleagues
Oversee support activities in conjunction with infrastructure and operations to ensure SAP Supply Chain applications perform to Flowers’ standards
Seek out continuous improvement opportunities and provide input and recommendations
Perform other duties deemed by management to be an integral part of the job, including, but not limited to fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and other applicable operating rules, policies and procedures
Qualification
Required
15+ years of progressive experience in SAP application design, development, quality assurance and implementation processes
Experience building and / or leading SAP teams at a functional level including the creation of architecture standards, reference architectures and data models
Minimum of 1 year demonstrated leadership experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients
Experience integrating SAP Supply Chain solutions into a broad array of non-legacy technologies and architectures
SAP Supply Chain technical and functional architecture, data model along with new and emerging SAP capabilities
SAP capabilities in most of the following SAP Supply Chain areas: Plan to Produce, Production Planning, Recipe Management, Specification Management, Plant maintenance, Enterprise asset manager, Quality Management and Supply Chain Master Data processes(PP,QM, EAM, PM, PPDS)
An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering, finance, business management or a related field
Preferred
MIS, CIS, engineering or business-related degree
Benefits
Comprehensive health and medical benefits
401(k) Retirement savings plan
Professional growth and leadership training
Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave
Company
Flowers Foods & Subsidiaries
Headquartered in Thomasville, Ga., Flowers Foods, Inc.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.3B2025-02-11Post Ipo Debt· $800M
2021-03-02Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2001-03-28IPO
Leadership Team
Jeff Shura
Sr. Vice President Engineering & Technology
Robert Benton
Executive Vice President of Network Optimization
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