Senior Manager, SAP Architecture & IT Delivery

Jacklinksproteinsnacks; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jack Link's EMEA seeks a Senior Manager, SAP Architecture & IT Delivery in Amsterdam to own enterprise SAP solution architecture, delivery and support across Finance, Sales, HR, Supply Chain and Operations. You will align with the global blueprint and drive on-time, on-budget SAP programs regionally.

You will lead a multinational team, coordinate with North America IT, guide S/4HANA migrations, cloud adoption, and ensure localization, tax and currency compliance while partnering with system

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise SAP architecture and delivery across multiple domains.
• Proven ability to manage large-scale SAP programs on time and budget.
• Strong collaboration with regional and global IT teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead SAP roadmap and regional migrations across EMEA.
• Coordinate onshore/offshore delivery with system integrators and North America IT.
• Ensure localization, tax, language and currency compliance for regional deployments.
• Partner with business leaders across Finance, Sales, HR, Supply Chain and Operations.

Skills

SAP Architecture

IT Delivery

S/4HANA

Cloud Adoption

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Salesforce.com

UKG

Martech

MES

WMS

TMS

Job description

Make a difference by becoming part of the No. 1 protein snack manufacturer worldwide as Senior Manager, SAP Architecture & IT Delivery at Jack Link's EMEA.

Our spacious and modern EMEA HQ is in the vibrant Amsterdam, and includes a highly international team, with more than 25 different nationalities. Our EMEA team is committed to continuing its impressive EMEA expansion, one bite at a time, and becoming the regional leader in branded protein snacks.

This position is based in Amsterdam and you will be reporting to the Regional CFO, with a dotted line to the SVP of IT. The Senior Manager, SAP Architecture & IT Delivery is responsible for the enterprise SAP solution architecture, the delivery, and support of SAP programs across all business domains, including Finance, Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, Supply Chain and Operations.

This role leads the regional SAP landscape and collaborates with the North America IT team to rollout of the global SAP blueprint across the EMEA, Asia Pacific (APAC) and Middle & South America (MASA) regions, ensuring adherence to the global template, a scalable and integrated architecture, and on-time, on-budget delivery.

This role will be the primary interface between business functional leaders and the IT delivery teams and will partner closely with North America leaders who own key program resources and with the system integrator's offshore delivery teams. This will be accomplished through a combination of deep SAP architecture expertise, program leadership, trusted business relationships and strong communication skills.

Leadership:

Lead a team of functional and technical analysts and offshore and system integrator resources across EMEA, APAC and MASA to deliver competitively advantaged solutions.

Plan and execute the regional SAP roadmap, translate demand into required delivery and support capacity, and engage Global IT through established portfolio and resource-planning forums to review changing regional needs, global impacts and resource priorities.

Collaborate with business and IT teams through a regional demand-management cadence to align priorities, sequence initiatives against available capacity and elevate required trade-offs.

Lead, coach, engage and professionally develop team members, building a high-performing, culturally diverse team that operates effectively across multiple time zones.

Strengthening communication and operating rhythms between international regions and North America IT teams, ensuring timely visibility into regional demand, priorities, resource needs, dependencies and the status of ongoing initiatives.

SAP Architecture & Strategy:

Serve as the regional steward of the global SAP blueprint and template established in North America, applying its architecture standards, integration patterns and design principles while balancing global standardization with regional and statutory requirements.

Partners with North America architects and process owners to govern fit-gap decisions and regional extensions, and feed regional requirements and lessons learned back into the global blueprint.

Develop and implement SAP and enterprise application roadmaps, including S/4HANA transformation, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and cloud adoption, aligned to business goals.

Govern integration architecture between SAP and surrounding platforms such as Salesforce.com, UKG, Martech, MES, WMS, TMS and third-party logistics systems.

Identify and evaluate new technology solutions and present findings and recommendations to senior leadership and stakeholders.

Program Delivery & Regional Migrations:

Collaborate with North America leaders who own key program resources (e.g., process owners, architects, developers and data teams) to secure, plan and prioritize shared capacity for regional rollouts.

Lead the rollout of the North America global SAP blueprint to EMEA, APAC and MASA, including the planning and delivery of S/4HANA migrations, system consolidations and upgrades.

Coordinate offshore delivery resources with the system integrator, aligning onshore, offshore and North America teams on scope, schedule, handoffs and quality across time zones.

Manage program risks, issues and dependencies, and provide clear status reporting to steering committees and executive sponsors.

Oversee data migration, testing, cutover, hyper care and transition to support, ensuring minimal disruption to supply chain, manufacturing and financial operations.

Ensure country's localization requirements, including statutory reporting, tax, e-invoicing, language and currency, are addressed in each regional deployment.

Drive organizational change management, training and user adoption in partnership with business and regional leaders.

Business Partnership & Vendor Management:

Serve as a trusted advisor to functional leaders across Finance, Sales, Marketing, HR, Supply Chain and Operations, sharing leading practices, benchmarking and peer company insights to ensure solutions enable bottom-line growth