Director Manufacturing and Supply Chain Technology

Technology Strategy & Roadmap

Define and execute the multi-year technology roadmap for manufacturing and supply chain systems aligned to business growth objectives.

Own the strategy and lifecycle management of SAP ECC across production planning (PP), materials management (MM), sales & distribution (SD), quality management (QM), plant maintenance (PM), and OTC integrations.

Ensure alignment between ERP, procurement, planning, and shop-floor systems to enable end-to-end process visibility.

Evaluate and modernize SIOP planning capabilities to improve forecast accuracy, capacity planning, and inventory optimization.

Manufacturing Systems Leadership

Lead strategy and governance for MES platforms, ensuring tight integration between shop-floor control systems and SAP ECC.

Drive digitization initiatives across production, quality, maintenance, and traceability.

Oversee WMS and TMS platforms to ensure seamless warehouse execution, logistics optimization, and transportation visibility.

Improve plant-level KPIs through system enablement and data integrity.

SAP & Supply Chain Optimization

Oversee end-to-end integration between SAP ECC, SAP Ariba, SIOP planning tools, and TMSE.

Ensure procurement workflows, supplier collaboration, and spend management are optimized within Ariba.

Drive master data governance across materials, BOMs, routings, vendors, customers, and logistics networks.

Partner with Finance to ensure accurate cost accounting, inventory valuation, and manufacturing variance reporting.

Operational Excellence & Reliability

Working within our established IT Operating Model, establish strong IT-business governance with manufacturing, supply chain, and procurement leadership.

Ensure system reliability, uptime, and performance across mission-critical operational platforms.

Lead continuous improvement initiatives.

Implement strong change management practices to ensure adoption across plant and warehouse environments.

Team & Vendor Leadership

Build and lead high-performing ERP, Manufacturing, OTC, Product Lifecycle Management and supply chain technology teams (internal and external).

Manage system integrators, managed services providers, and software vendors.

Establish clear SLAs and performance metrics for operational support and project delivery.

Develop internal capability in SAP ECC manufacturing and supply chain modules.