Senior Specialist, Specification and Data Process Owner

About the role

This position oversees strategic direction for SAP RM and SAP within the market. It provides leadership for NUSA SAP RM implementation, SAP S/4HANA, and ongoing market stewardship for materials across Raw and Packaging, BOMs, and recipes. It acts as the market escalation point for Raw and Packaging specification related system issues impacting compliance, supply continuity, manufacturing execution, or data accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the single point of contact for BOM SAP SME and NUSA for SAP RM system performance and issue escalation.
• Activate relevant resources to quickly resolve any systems, process or performance issues and provide relevant communication and feedback.
• Responsible for role request review and approval to ensure accuracy and relevance.
• Oversees material specification strategies related to potential harmonization, process efficiency and management for NUSA.
• Provides market leadership for material specification governance, with primary accountability for maintenance, deactivation, sustainability, and data integrity.
• Collaborate with PTC, TAG, Regulatory, Procurement, other market leads to resolve issues and enable efficient, timely shared specification approvals.
• Engages with global counterparts on harmonization initiatives and serves as the NUSA market advocate for responses and factory alignment, including ownership of relevant global material master data KPIs (e.g., FERT to Foodstuff).
• Ensure system rollout and release robustness. Lead team to test new global system releases and global system migration to ensure flawless execution.
• Develop and/or ensure the deployment of relevant material and process standards within the Nestlé systems. Leads deployment of market communications, training, and knowledge transfer associated with system rollouts and releases, including enablement for acquisitions, divestitures, or organizational changes, to ensure sustained adoption and correct system usage across NUSA.
• Drives continuous improvement of technical capabilities and personal development. Continuously builds technical, digital, and business acumen, proactively expanding internal and external networks. Demonstrates curiosity and application of digital solutions (e.g., Power BI) and engages stakeholders to implement solutions using a data-driven approach.
• Proactively uncovers opportunities for process simplification and optimization across Raw and Packaging specification lifecycles, utilizing system and process insights to drive organizational improvements. Examples include acquisition/divestitures, ways of working, process mapping, Raw and Packaging data integrity improvements (including CSV standards), and special projects aligned with TAG CoE roadmap priorities.

Requirements

• A BS in a technical or related field
• Prefer at least 5 years of product, package or process development with market experience in CPG
• Demonstrated leadership skills in previous roles, and ability to drive healthy challenge
• Experience managing a project or change initiative
• PREFERRED: Experience or knowledge with multiple types of ingredients and/or processes or application procedures

Qualifications

• System Skills: SAP-RM and SAP experience required
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and high-performing environment
• Exceptional organizational skills, extremely detail-oriented, and ability to manage multiple projects and assignments
• Strong communication skills: interpersonal, presentation, oral and written with ability to adapt to audience which can include Business, Technical, Procurement and Manufacturing backgrounds
• Highly motivated, critical thinker, goal-oriented and easily adapts to change
• Computer Skills: Microsoft Office applications: Excel, Power Point, Word, Access

Skills

• Technical and digital acumen
• Data-driven problem-solving
• Process optimization
• Collaborative leadership
• Stakeholder engagement

Benefits

Nestlé offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, retirement savings plans, paid time off, and more. Nestlé also supports professional development through various training programs and career advancement opportunities.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $100,000 - $150,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

This role is full-time and based in the United States.