Ice Cream ERP Implementation Regional Manufacturing Lead
About The Position
The Ice Cream ERP Implementation Regional Manufacturing Lead will act as the key liaison between the Americas-Business Unit and the central Global Supply Chain (Plan-Manufacturing-Logistics) project team, ensuring that the new ERP system aligns with local business requirements, while maintaining global standardization. This role plays a crucial part in representing the business unit's needs for Manufacturing processes and working with the business unit to adapt global processes and ways of working to ensure the successful transition to operating on a global technology platform including core ERP (e.g. SAP S4 Hana) and application layers (e.g T&A, MES, PLC etc). You will be responsible for the validation of the design, build and deployment of Supply chain processes focusing on Manufacturing domains On-time-in-full: Manufacturing’s E2E process and collaboration processes for your BU in our upcoming new Ice Cream ERP implementation. This position is integral to ensuring the successful implementation and seamless transition of Manufacturing processes as part of the ERP transformation, with a project duration expected to be 1.5–2 years.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in technology, Information Systems, Supply Chain, Business, Finance or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Plan-Make-Logistics (at minimum one domain) within Supply Chain.
- Hands-on experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, or similar).
- Strong understanding of order to deliver management processes.
- Ability to understand, compare and analyse processes and drive continuous process improvements.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work across functions and influence key stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in ERP transformation, where Manufacturing E2E process standardization is a plus.
- Familiarity with automation tools and digital solutions.
Responsibilities
- Business Unit Representation Manufacturing Process Alignment: Act as the primary representative of the Business Unit in all discussions related to Manufacturing domains (incl. QA & SHE)
- Ensure business unit Manufacturing domain requirements are accurately reflected in the global ERP implementation and process and data & analytics design
- Ensure change impact assessment is done for EU-BU and OTIF plan is created with risk management plan is finalised.
- Collaborate with the other domains such as Order to Cash-Commercial, Procurement (S2P), Finance, M2D, P2F, Data & Analytics, Integration and Deployment project teams to ensure an integrated E2E design.
- ERP Implementation & Data Integration: Work closely within Internal IT organization to ensure seamless integration of Manufacturing processes within the ERP system.
- Assist in data migration, reconciliation, and validation to ensure accuracy ahead of ERP go-live.
- Identify automation opportunities to enhance efficiency and reduce manual Manufacturing processing tasks – the aspiration is touchless.
- Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Act as a bridge between the Business Unit, Global Process Owners, Supply Chain and rest of SC-IT Organizations representing EU-BU to ensure successful ERP implementation.
- Build and maintain a Change Network covering all the countries in the Business Unit to allow efficient two-way communication, ensuring smooth adoption of new processes and alignment with global standards.
- Test, Validate, and Optimize: Participate in testing and validation of the ERP system, ensuring accurate transactions, reporting and reconciliation.
- Identify potential gaps in system functionality and propose enhancements for process optimization.
- Transition to BAU: Support training and knowledge-sharing initiatives ensuring that employees are enthused and have the skills and knowledge required to operate within the new system.
- Monitor process performance post-implementation and identify opportunities for improvement
- Support countries in the business unit on how to drive continuous improvement of performance metrics in BAU.
Benefits
- TMICC employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
