Product Owner

At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better.

Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With over 14,000 employees around the world and more than $6 Billion in annual sales, the Company manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.

While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 60 locations in 25 countries and 170 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas.

At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical values.

Position Summary: 

This position requires a consultant with a solid track record of IT business solution architecture with both depth and breadth preferably with the consumer products manufacturing and distribution industry.

Key Responsibilities: 

• The main responsibility for this role is ensuring that the global SAP GTS solution is successfully implemented delivering the business capabilities in an environment which is safe, secure and enabled for future growth.
• Responsible for business need solutioning, including solution design, proposals and end-to-end business process engineering and requirements mapping in the GTS area. Designs and develops IT solutions (integrated process, applications, data, and technology) solutions to business problems in alignment with the organization IT direction and standards
•  Help define business requirements and process design, (including scenario design and flow mapping)
• Designs major aspects of the architecture of the GTS applications, including components such as user interface, middleware and infrastructure integration points
• Create functional designs, prototyping test planning and execution, training coordination, and documentation of operational support procedures
• Serves as liaison between business users and technology group for system implementation and maintenance.
• Effectively communicate complex concepts and solutions to all level of the organization and project team, including facilitation of decisions and consensus building.
• With focus on the commercial business, this role will be responsible for formulating and defining complex GTS systems scope and objectives through analysis, testing and fact-finding combined with a comprehensive understanding of the GTS system and industry requirements.
• The role will serve as a proactive partner to the business and IT as part of a global team to enable business transformation through technology in the S4 Hana project implementation.
• Drive business process transformation and continuous improvement with key business partners and other McCormick Technology solution teams.
• Acts as work stream leader from start to finish with accountability for successful solution delivery within area of responsibility. Foster and maintains good relationships with business partners and IT colleagues to meet expected customer service levels.
• Work across solution teams to ensure proper system/data integration.
• Champions and develops innovative IT principles and ideas.
• Partners with Scrum teams to ensure delivery aligns with project objectives. Adheres to project timelines to complete tasks on time, budget and aligned with business user expectations.
• Provide leadership over program standards and performance as it pertains to solution design concepts, deployment and steady-state for GTS.

Key Skills/ Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or another technology-related field
• Strong business transformation experience along with demonstrable stakeholder management experience, with an ability and attitude to influence and advise at all levels, up to executive leadership.
• 10+ years of related SAP experience, with at least 3 years’ experience in SAP GTS with S4 HANA and EDI.
• Minimum 2-3 full life-cycle implementation experience with SAP GTS preferably in the S4 HANA landscape.

At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical values.

Agencies: McCormick as needed will work with external recruitment vendors through our Agency Portal. Unless previously contacted, McCormick does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies.

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy