ERP Integration Manager

JOB PURPOSE:

Reporting to the VP, M&A Cross Function Integration, the Cross Process Integration Engineer owns the end-to-end design, and execution of all ERP cross-functional integrations across Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial, HR, and Manufacturing domains. Acting as the nexus between enterprise processes and technology, this role owns the discovery and assessment of all boundary systems, data flows, and integration ensuring all dependencies are adequately covered as new functionality, acquisitions, and global initiatives are highlighted, reviewed and brought onto the core ERP landscape at McCain.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• · Continuously identify all cross-process topics, boundary systems, interface, and data feeds that touch core ERPs (e.g. S/4HANA) in-scope processes

• Develop documentation or registers for integration points, detailing cost, timeline, risk, and business impact, and secure stakeholder approval for the selected approach.
• · Embed the approved integration scope into the program schedule, define critical-path activities, resource requirements, and milestone dates, and maintain up-to-date dependency maps.
• · Maintain an Cross Process Readiness Tracker with clear RAG (red-amber-green) status, provide weekly progress updates, and escalate variances that threaten schedule, budget, or quality.
• · Drive decisions on scope, sequencing, and resourcing, and document actions, owners, and due dates.
• · Proactively identify cross process-related risks and issues, quantify their impact, and develop mitigation or contingency plans.
• · Produce concise dashboards and executive briefs that translate technical dependencies into clear business language; serve as the single point of contact for functional leads and SI partners on integration matters.
• · Monitor industry best practices and peer core ERPs (e.g. S/4HANA) program, harvesting lessons learned and proposing accelerators or tooling that reduce cost, risk, or timeline.
• · Build strategic relationships with system integrators, SaaS providers, and managed-service partners.
• · Act as trusted advisor to Business Process Owners, PMO, and global technology leads on integration-related decisions

MEASURES OF SUCCESS:

• · Familiarity with basic information management practices.
• · Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• · Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• · Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture.
• · Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes
• · Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, tools and model repositories.
• · Ability to apply multiple solutions to business problems.
• · Ability to rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
• · Strong leadership skills.
• · Excellent analytical and technical skills.
• · Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• · Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• · Basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting.
• · Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.

KEY QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCES:

• · Minimum 14 years in ERP and enterprise-system integrations across at least two functional domains.
• · Proven leadership of complex multi-country ERP transformation or M&A carve-out projects.
• · Deep knowledge of Food and Beverage business processes and related ERPs (e.g. S/4HANA) and integration frameworks
• · Strong grasp of master-data governance, and data-quality tooling.
• · Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills; able to explain technical issues to non-technical executives.
• · Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline; Master’s and/or relevant certifications.
• · Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.
• · Ability to translate business needs into solution architecture requirements.
• · Ability to estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives.