Global Supply & Commercial Tech Lead - Digital Architect

Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates seeks a Senior Technical Lead within the Food & Nutrition Supply Digital Technology team in the UK. The role reports to the Global DT Supply Director and partners with Product Owners, enterprise teams and external suppliers to define and deliver robust technical plans.

You will steer architecture across planning, smart manufacturing and procurement, ensuring scalable, secure solutions that align with Mars standards and governance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a senior technical lead, solution architect or comparable enterprise technology role.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain processes and systems, with depth in Planning, Smart Manufacturing and/or Procurement technologies.
• Experience translating priorities and roadmaps into technical options, solution designs and implementation approaches.
• Experience designing and assuring complex solutions spanning applications, data, integration, cloud, cybersecurity and operational support.
• Knowledge of Planning platforms such as Blue Yonder, Smart Manufacturing/Industry 4.0, and Procurement platforms such as SAP Ariba.
• Experience leading technical design reviews, managing technical risks and providing oversight to suppliers and system integrators.
• Ability to communicate technical trade-offs and recommendations clearly to senior leaders and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience coaching technical practitioners and influencing effectively in a global matrix environment.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior technical lead for the Food & Nutrition Supply and Commercial technology landscape, with focus on Planning, Smart Manufacturing and Procurement.
• Translate priorities and roadmaps into clear technical options, solution approaches and delivery guardrails.
• Provide expert advice on technical feasibility, complexity, dependencies, risk, cost and support implications to inform prioritisation and investment decisions.
• Lead technical discovery, solution design and design assurance across applications, data, integration, cloud, infrastructure and operational technology.
• Ensure solutions align with Mars enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, data, integration and service management standards.
• Provide domain technology leadership across Planning (Blue Yonder, S&OP/IBP), Smart Manufacturing (factory data, MES, OT/IT integration) and Procurement (source-to-pay, SAP Ariba).
• Support Product Owners, Project/Programme Managers, engineers and delivery partners to turn approved scope into robust technical plans, designs, estimates, dependencies and acceptance criteria.
• Assure technical quality through build, integration, testing, deployment, hypercare and transition to operations, resolving material risks and design decisions.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, maintainable and well-documented with lifecycle ownership.
• Provide technical leadership to suppliers and system integrators, challenging architectures and deliverables.
• Drive simplification, reuse and standardisation across the technology landscape to reduce duplication and debt.
• Build technical capability across the team by coaching Associates and partners, sharing standards and creating design forums.

Skills

Technical leadership

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud technologies

Data integration

Cybersecurity

S&OP/IBP

Blue Yonder

SAP Ariba

Supply Chain systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field

Certification in architecture/cloud/data desirable

Job description

Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates seeks a Senior Technical Lead within the Food & Nutrition Supply Digital Technology team in the UK. The role reports to the Global DT Supply Director and partners with Product Owners, enterprise teams and external suppliers to define and deliver robust technical plans.

You will steer architecture across planning, smart manufacturing and procurement, ensuring scalable, secure solutions that align with Mars standards and governance.