Global Chief Architect - Royal Canin

Global Chief Architect for Royal Canin, leading architectural endeavors of Global Royal Canin transformation initiatives, ensuring success of transformations by mapping current technological capabilities, identifying inherent gaps, and guiding Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Platform, Data and Security Architects.

Requirements

• Industry leading expertise in building and delivering ERP Technology Strategy for a large-scale CPG (or adjacent industry) organisation
• Successful experience, established over several years, to perform architecture leadership within a Technology environment
• Ability to navigate complex matrix organisation
• Motivational and thought leading
• People leadership of managing team of senior Enterprise Architects.
• Provide architectural direction to Enterprise Architects, Business Architects and Solution Architects.
• 10 to 15 years working with SAP ECC or S/4 ERP and interfacing CPG industry solutions architecture
• Hands-on enterprise architecture experience leading and providing solutions to large and complex IT environments.
• Support Cross segment large business transformation programs by leading Enterprise Architecture Team
• Ensure Enterprise Architecture principles and guidelines are adopted across SAP and Non-SAP Technology Stacks
• Support Extensibility, Clean Core, Micro Services and Composable Architecture discussions and arrive at the best possible design.
• Work with SAP and other Product vendors to understand product Roadmaps and work with internal business Transformation Teams of Technical Stack enhancements.
• Review and enhance best practices to meet fast-changing technology improvements and business requirements.
• Provide guidance to Business Integrator (BI) and Systems Integrator (SI) teams regarding Process Governance, Enterprise tools like Signavio, SAP Solutions Manager, SAP CALM, SAP BODS, Info Steward, ER Studio, Datasphere, One Lake, LeanIX and ServiceNow
• Provide guidance to BI and SI teams on end-to-end business processes execution with Edge systems.
• Work collaboratively with SAP and Non-SAP Infrastructure, Cloud Hosting, Network, Security Architecture Teams, BI and SI resources.
• Works Collaboratively with other Segment Enterprise Architects and act as Technology SME where required.
• Strong problem analysis, negotiating and influencing skills. Proven track record of delivering results in the following Business Capabilities/Solutions: E2E Planning, WMS, OMS, PLM, Logistics, Financial Systems, Sales & Marketing systems, Data Warehouse, Data Lake and overall Enterprise Architecture.

Benefits

• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.