Business Architect Source & Plan

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Enterprise Architecture

People Leader

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Enterprise Architecture

People Leader

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

The Business Architect – Source & Plan is accountable for defining and evolving the target business capability architecture for Source & Plan within the end‑to‑end Supply Chain.

While functionally aligned to Source & Plan
, this role operates horizontally across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, and Enterprise functions
, ensuring that capabilities, data, and digital investments work together to deliver scalable, compliant, and resilient outcomes.

The role acts as a capability steward and architectural integrator
, translating business strategy into coherent capability roadmaps and guiding cross‑functional initiatives through architecture governance.

• Define, maintain, and evolve the L1–L3 business capability architecture for Source and Plan, independent of systems or organizational structure.
• Ensure capability definitions are stable, outcome‑oriented, and reusable across regions and products.
• Own capability dependencies and interfaces with adjacent domains (Manufacturing, Quality, Deliver, Finance).

• Actively operate across end‑to‑end value streams (e.g., Sense & Shape Demand, Promise to Customer, Manufacture & Release etc), identifying cross‑functional constraints and architectural trade‑offs.
• Partner with Business Product Owners to ensure initiatives optimize value flow, not local functional efficiency.
• Translate value‑stream performance gaps into capability‑level interventions.

• Serve as the single accountable Business Architect for Source & Plan initiatives entering architecture governance forums.
• Clearly articulate architectural impacts, options, and trade‑offs to senior stakeholders and ARB members.
• Lead architecture assessments, ensuring alignment to:
  • Enterprise capability standards
  • Data and integration principles
  • Target‑state ecosystem architecture.

• Connect Source & Plan ways of working to digital, data, and AI capabilities, ensuring solutions are compliant, scalable, and explainable.
• Partner closely with Technology, Information, and DS/AI Architects to align on:
  • Integration and data flows
  • Data ownership and semantics
  • Innovation‑to‑scale pathways

• Act as a trusted advisor to Source & Plan leaders on capability maturity, investment prioritization, and architectural direction.
• Influence across global, regional, and enterprise teams.
• Maintain awareness of external trends and emerging technologies relevant to Source & Plan ecosystems.

• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred).

• Deep expertise in capability modelling (L1–L3) and business architecture frameworks.
• Clear understanding of the distinction between capabilities, processes, and systems.
• Experience defining target‑state architectures and capability roadmaps.

• Strong systems‑thinking mindset with the ability to reason across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, and Quality domains.
• Proven ability to work horizontally and resolve trade‑offs across functional boundaries.

• Strong understanding of Source and Plan processes and operating environments.
• Ability to abstract domain complexity into clear…