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About the Role
This role operates within the Food & Nutrition Supply Digital Technology team, supporting the Global DT Supply Director by providing technical insight, designs, and assurance for informed decision-making and successful delivery of priorities. The role collaborates with various stakeholders and often leads virtual technical teams.
Responsibilities
- Act as the senior technical lead for the Food & Nutrition Supply and Commercial technology landscape, focusing on Planning, Smart Manufacturing, and Procurement.
- Translate priorities and roadmaps into clear technical options, solution approaches, and delivery guardrails.
- Provide expert advice on technical feasibility, complexity, dependencies, risk, cost, and support implications.
- Lead technical discovery, solution design, and design assurance across applications, data, integration, cloud, infrastructure, and operational technology.
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, data, integration, and service management standards.
- Provide domain technology leadership across Planning (Blue Yonder, S&OP/IBP), Smart Manufacturing (factory data, MES, connected worker, OT/IT integration), and Procurement (source-to-pay, SAP Ariba, supplier collaboration).
- Support stakeholders in turning approved scope into robust technical plans, designs, estimates, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
- Assure technical quality through build, integration, testing, deployment, hypercare, and transition to operations, resolving or escalating technical risks and design decisions.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, maintainable, and supportable with appropriate monitoring, documentation, lifecycle management, and operational ownership.
- Provide technical leadership to suppliers and system integrators, constructively challenging architectures, estimates, and deliverables.
- Drive simplification, reuse, and standardization across the technology landscape, reducing customisation, duplication, and technical debt.
- Build technical capability across the team by coaching associates and partners, sharing standards and reusable patterns, and facilitating technical communities and design forums.
Requirements
- Significant experience in a senior technical lead, solution architect, domain architect, lead engineer, or comparable enterprise technology role.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain processes and systems, with depth in Planning, Smart Manufacturing, and/or Procurement technologies.
- Experience translating agreed priorities and roadmaps into technical options, solution designs, and implementation approaches.
- Experience designing and assuring complex solutions spanning applications, data, integration, cloud, cybersecurity, and operational support.
- Knowledge of Planning platforms such as Blue Yonder, Smart Manufacturing / Industry 4.0 technologies, and Procurement platforms such as SAP Ariba.
- Experience leading technical design reviews, managing technical risks, and providing oversight to suppliers and system integrators.
- Ability to communicate technical trade-offs and recommendations clearly to senior leaders and multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience coaching technical practitioners and influencing effectively in a global matrix environment.
- Experience in Food, CPG, FMCG, manufacturing, or another asset-intensive global organisation is preferred.
- Experience with Mars technology governance, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, GDO transition, ServiceNow, or PMX is preferred.
- Experience balancing global technology standards with regional, market, and factory requirements is preferred.
Skills
- Planning
- Smart Manufacturing
- Procurement
- Blue Yonder
- S&OP / IBP
- Factory data
- MES
- Connected worker
- OT / IT integration
- Source-to-pay
- SAP Ariba
- Supplier collaboration
- Cloud
- Cybersecurity
- Data
- Integration
- Service Management
- Enterprise Architecture
Experience Level
- Senior technical lead
- Solution architect
- Domain architect
- Lead engineer
- Comparable enterprise technology role
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Business Systems or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Relevant architecture, cloud, data, cybersecurity, engineering or Supply Chain technology certification is desirable.
About the Company
- The role operates within the Food & Nutrition Supply Digital Technology team.