Process Integration Lead

at  Ardo

BE - Ardo Headquarters
IT
Permanent contract
Ardo supplies its continuously growing markets around the world with high quality frozen vegetables, herbs, and fruit with 4000 employees and 17 production sites in 8 countries. The family business sells in more than 100 countries and has a turnover of more than 1.4 billion euros. Ardo’s mission is to preserve the gift of nature as pure as possible. Ardo achieves this goal thanks to an integrated network of growing areas, production units, freezing units, packaging equipment, appropriate logistics and thorough quality control. The group’s know-how and flexible structure ensure that it can respond quickly to new trends and that innovative products can be brought onto the market quickly. More info on www.ardo.com.
Your Scope
As Process Integration Lead, you will be crucial in implementing SAP in the Ardo Group. You will be responsible for safeguarding and further enriching the Ardo SAP Golden Template. Based on your large cross-functional SAP knowledge, you will guide the Ardo SAP teams (partner and internal teams), both for Template and Deploy, to make the right process integration decisions about priorities, impact, effort, functional and technical design, and cost.
You will work closely with multiple stakeholders, including the SAP Program Manager and Project Sponsors, to analyze, discuss, and coordinate system design changes. As Process Integration Lead, you will report to the Group IT Director.

You will take the lead in multiple SAP design activities, as part of the further deployment of the SAP system in de different Ardo sites, migrating the business processes from the existing local legacy ERP systems towards one integrated SAP S/4HANA environment. As part of the deployment activities, you will also validate the Show & Tell content.
You will help to resolve system and process design issues, together with the Business Process Owners, internal and external Business Analysts, developers, and IT Enterprise Architect.
You will safeguard the Template via the Change Approval Board, which you organize, and discuss upfront all change requests, coming from fit gaps of further SAP Deploys, Continuous Improvement requests, and Support Tickets, with the Business Process Owners in preparation for the CAB.
You will ensure that the necessary scenarios for testing cycles become available and are validated. You manage the process flow mapping and guarantee up-to-date documentation of process flows and scenarios within the foreseen BPM tool.
You will be an evangelist of standard SAP best practice processes and a defender of the Ardo SAP Golden Template, both for our Sales entities track and our Plant Operations track, to limit the number of change requests to the must-have minimum, allowing Ardo to become more cost-efficient, reduce complexity and be compliant with local legislation.
As Process Integration Lead, you are expected to be an experienced integration and change agent who builds a new ERP environment while converting legacy systems to SAP to achieve substantial synergy savings.
You will secure alignment with the Master Data team regarding setup, defect solving, and continuous improvement.
You will contribute from an SAP Process Integration perspective to defining the IT digital roadmap for the future for the different products in the SAP ecosystem and the various applications in the group linked to SAP.
Your profile
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant discipline such as computer science, commercial engineering, civil/industrial engineering, or an equivalent.
Minimum 10 years of experience as SAP Functional Stream Lead, Process Integration Lead, or similar.
Strong collaborative Information Technology leader with a proven record of implementing multiple end-to-end projects in diverse and challenging environments on an SAP platform.
Strong analytical, planning, problem-solving, and project management skills coupled with the ability to understand the processes and quality related to a system.
Functional expertise in all aspects of the system development life cycle involving business process analysis, business requirements analysis, process re-engineering, project scoping, budgeting, risk analysis, and quality management.
Experience working with cross-cultural teams. Comfortable in interacting with people across hierarchical levels.
Cross-Functional knowledge of SAP ERP in the modules MM, PP, SD, FICO, and QM. Experience in S/4HANA is a plus.
Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
Strong team player with good collaboration skills.
Language skills: English is a must; Dutch and French are an asset.
We offer
We offer you the opportunity to be part of an authentic and sustainable international company, with real growth opportunities and the freedom to actively participate in shaping the business and the opportunity to develop professionally. You will receive a full remuneration package in line with the level of this position. We care for our people and create family-friendly surroundings by offering you the flexibility to work 2 days/week from home.
Interested? Contact our recruitment partner for this role, KABAS, via email katrijn.degrieck@kabasrecruit.be