Enterprise Business Solutions Manager; Food & Beverage Mfg

Overview

Baldwin Richardson Foods is focused on enriching the flavor of life. As a full-service liquid products supplier and strategic partner to the food and beverage industry, Baldwin Richardson Foods combines its formulation expertise and unique packaging options with robust processing capabilities to produce high-quality sauces, toppings, syrups, fillings, and shelf-stable beverages for the world's most iconic Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands, and food service companies.

Its Innovation & Culinary Center transforms trends and culinary inspiration into legendary products through an award-winning commercialization process. The company manufactures and markets Mrs. Richardson's dessert sauces and Nance's mustards/condiments and produces finished goods for the private label sector. BRF maintains its headquarters and a manufacturing facility in Macedon, New York; a Culinary Innovation Center in Westmont, Illinois; and offices and manufacturing facilities in Williamson, New York;
Pennsauken, New Jersey; and Corona, California.

This position follows a hybrid model and may be based in Macedon, NY (corporate headquarters), Westmont, IL, or Pennsauken, NJ.

The Manager of Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) is responsible for overseeing our Enterprise Business Solutions team. This critical leader will own enterprise application architecture, oversee functional and technical governance and roadmap for SAP and other enterprise applications, implementation of new business capabilities, and will lead the internal and external teams responsible for execution. They will provide high-impact oversight of all aspects of the team, including people’s development, stakeholder communication, product roadmaps, execution and business adoption.

This includes efficiently managing day-to-day support as well as larger-scale projects. The main focus is on SAP S/4

HANA Private Cloud, our primary enterprise-wide system of record. As we have recently transitioned to S/4

HANA, we are expected to leverage the platform to drive business improvement, primarily in Finance and Supply Chain functions. The leader will need to identify new opportunities, build credible business cases, and drive execution. The team will also manage interoperability and facilitation of technical support of other enterprise functions, such as Human Capital Management and Project Management platforms, and day-to-day management of said platforms.

• Inspire, empower, and manage the performance of team members. The EBS team currently has four full-time dedicated business analysts/process engineers and is expected to grow.
• Cultivate talent by setting clear expectations and facilitating coaching to achieve departmental and company goals.
• Coach the team on technical aspects of SAP as well as skills for effective business partnership, including communication, collaboration, process/project management, and financial impact analysis.
• Provide hands-on SAP expertise to support day-to-day activities, adding technical capacity to the Enterprise Business Solutions team.

• Collaborate with management and subject matter experts to build, prioritize and update the execution and roadmap aligning new technical capability with critical business needs.
• Identify opportunities to grow the team’s capacity and capability in line with business growth.
• Ensure self and staff stay up to date with relevant technical knowledge and developments.

• Lead execution of business process transformation initiatives where enhancements to business applications are needed.
• Partner with the business to evaluate current processes, identify opportunities for improvement, and define the execution process.
• Ensure process documentation is kept updated in collaboration with business stakeholders.
• Monitor the impact of changes and adjust strategies as needed.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field
• Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive experience in SAP support and development
• Manufacturing industry experience –…