SAP IBP Product Manager, IT

Ocean Spray is hiring for a(n) SAP IBP Product Manager, IT! We're a team of farmers, thinkers, creators, and doers. Whatever your title, whatever your role - it always comes back to this: we're a farmer-owned co-op where everyone rolls up their sleeves to get the job done. Three maverick farmers started it all - and we've been making our own way ever since.

This role plays a critical part in planning and delivery within Ocean Spray's technology transformation journey acting as the IT Workstream lead in the Connected Planning / Plan-to-Make pillar. This is an exciting time to join at the start of our journey, providing the candidate the opportunity to blueprint and drive change from birth to nurturing in a Greenfield Implementation of SAP S/4 HANA and SAP IBP. The IT, SAP IBP/PP Lead will have a deep understanding of the end-to-end Connected Planning & Plan-to-Make processes which are critical to our business operations. Leveraging this knowledge and in partnership with the Connected Planning Business Workstream Lead, the IT SAP IBP/PP Lead will be responsible for the design, development and deployment of an optimized, integrated, automated solution. They work closely with their fellow SAP IT Leads, Business Workstream Leads, and System Integrators across business processes, technology (including development and integration), deployment, data, security & controls, testing and organizational change management to deliver an improved and fully integrated solution to the organization.

Post-transformation, this role will be the Connected Planning / Plan-to-Make Functional Lead and a critical component of our SAP COE, working with key business stakeholders and product teams to prioritize and deliver enhancements & projects that provide value to the cooperative, while ensuring operational health of our core planning system. You will be adept and come with a Product mindset in architecture, engineering and importantly with enabling the continuous flow of value through interactive improvements to process and design.

A Day in the Life...

IT SAP IBP/PP Lead Responsibilities:

As an integral and respected leader within the IT transformation Program Team, your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Co-Develop SAP IBP and SAP PP workstream plan

• Co-Leads workstream design efforts

• Collaborates with other solution integration and business leads, for example Order-To-Cash, to ensure end-to-end processes are appropriately designed and supported by technology

• Provide input and oversight of design/build cycles plan

• Co-Facilitates workstream status meetings, daily stand-up meetings, design/build reviews/retrospectives and participate in cross workstream meetings

• Identify and document business requirements/user stories

• Provide input to Cutover Plan

• Co-Lead and assist in execution of Test Plan and defect identification & resolution

• Assist in design of future-state business processes

• Perform cross-module, end-to-end process integration

• Support change management team in understanding impacts of system and process changes

• Review and provide input to training and communications content

• Contribute to the standardization of reports, processes, and data definitions/attributes

• Work with conversion team to provide direction for data cleansing and validation

• Co-manages workload & tracks capacity of supporting SAP Functional Analysts

Technical Skills/Responsibilities:

• Partner with our business to adapt to industry best practices for following planning related areas - demand, supply, inventory, S&OP, financials, production

• Be the primary functional contact and technology business partner to our Commercial Leader, US and International business across a number of stakeholders in Supply Chain and Finance business leadership teams to define and deliver Connected Planning and Plan-to-Make capabilities required to enable the business strategy

• Be the single point of contact for our SAP IBP & SAP PP solutions across product vendor, external technology providers / system integrators, business teams and internal IT teams

• Lead all Product Management aspects of the SDLC, including requirement gathering, solution definition, build, testing, deployment, and support

• Lead all integration aspects with existing and new ERP core (SAP S4, and other non-SAP applications, and analytics tools).

• Collaborate within the internal IT organization to deliver quality solutions, on time

• Drive process and solution standardization

• Effectively analyze business process changes and change impact, and work with business stakeholders to manage through that change

• Oversee production support and act as point of escalation for critical break/fix issues within SAP IBP and SAP PP

What We Are Looking For:

• 5+ years of hands-on, solution leadership and implementation experience in SAP planning and manufacturing related solutions, preferred experience with SAP IBP, SAP APO and / or SAP/S4 (PP)

• 3+ years of experience in a Manufacturing environment

• Industry experience within CPG highly preferred

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders to adopt industry best practices in terms of business processes and technology solutions

• Strong business acumen within an enterprise planning function, manufacturing function and / or other supply chain execution functions, including transportation planning, manufacturing planning, and warehouse management

• Strong research, data analysis, and problem visualization skills

• Ability to collaborate with multiple teams effectively

• Ability to travel up to 15% to our supply facilities

Education:

Bachelor's or University Degree (Required)

Work Experience:

Years of Experience: At least 5 Years of Experience

Benefits:

• Complete insurance package on Day-1 that includes a plethora of health and wellness programs

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance

• Health savings account

• Flexible spending account

• Life and accident insurance

• Employee assistance program

• Telehealth services

• Fertility benefits

• Transgender benefits

• 1:1 health coaching and more

• 401(k) with up to 6% Company matching; additional potential discretionary match at year-end

• Short-Term Incentive/Performance bonuses

• Flexible scheduling options

• Vacation pay, up to three weeks of time (pro-rated for your first year of employment)

• Holiday pay for 12 holidays

• Career development and growth opportunities

• Tuition/Education assistance programs

• Access to LinkedIn Learning

• Scholarship programs for children of employees

• Parental leave

• Bright Horizons Family Solutions

• Back-up care, tutoring, etc.

• Adoption assistance

• Bereavement leave

• Up to $300 fitness reimbursement

• Up to $300 massage reimbursement

• Employee appreciation events

• Employee discounts

• Charitable giving

Who We Are:

You might have our iconic cranberry juice in your fridge or have gotten into heated holiday debate about what's better - canned or fresh cranberry sauce. But did you know that the hardworking people growing the superfruit in our products are 700 family farmers that own our cooperative? They entrust us with what is most precious to them to create new and innovative products that will delight consumers and grow this beloved brand today and into the future.

Team members, farmers, consumers and communities alike--we value what makes us unique and strive to connect our farms to families for a better life by living our values:

• Grower Mindset

• We embrace our grower-owners innovative spirit and heritage through confidence, learning and focus on the future.

• Sustainable Results

• Guided by purpose, we are focused on delivering results for our grower-owners.

• Integrity Above All

• We are ethical, doing the right thing for our grower-owners, customers, consumers and each other

• Inclusive Teamwork

• We build diverse and inclusive teams that strengthen our cooperative.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.