MANAGER GLOBAL NETWORK (HYBRID)

McCormick & Company, Inc., a global leader in the spice, flavor, and seasonings industry, is seeking a full-time Global Network Manager. This new hire will work at our Global Headquarters in Hunt Valley, MD. The position title will report to the VP IT Service & Solution Delivery

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor with approximately 13,000 employees worldwide. As a Fortune 500 company with over $5 billion in annual sales across 160 countries and territories, we manufacture, market, and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce, retail, food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick, French's, Frank's RedHot, Stubb's, OLD BAY, Lawry's, Zatarain's, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden. Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. Our Purpose is "To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor and our Vision is "A World United by Flavor—where healthy, sustainable and delicious go hand in hand."

As a company recognized for its exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick offers a wide variety of benefits, programs, and services. Benefits include, but are not limited to, tuition assistance, medical, dental, vision, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays, and vacations.

As the Global Network Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the operational activities and governance of our global network infrastructure. You will be the key point of contact for all aspects of the company's global network, including WAN, SD-WAN, fixed telecom circuits, LAN, wireless, load balancing, and other network technologies. You will work closely with our managed service providers (MSPs) and vendors to ensure that our network infrastructure is maintained and meets our business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a Managed Service Provider. Provide leadership on operational activities and guidance on processes, review SLAs and inventory reporting.
• Work closely with MSP and vendors to manage lifecycle of hardware and software, perform capacity planning, plan and ensure execution of hardware refreshes. Partner with server & storage manager by providing on-site review and leadership for primary data centers when needed.

• Work with internal stakeholders to align technology stack with business requirements. Collaborate with Solutions Architecture to review and evaluate new technology, define standards and strategy. Review and provide sign-off for architectural designs.

• Manage vendor relations including, but not limited to Cisco, Silverpeak, Azure, Microsoft, Bytegrid, Zayo as well as Value-Added Resellers.

• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders in IT and business.

• Oversee quarterly audits related to operations & logical access, support ad-hoc audit requests from internal & external auditors.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in IT or a significant working experience (15 or more years)
• 6+ years of experience in managing complex network infrastructure environments
• 6+ year experience working in a 24x7 global enterprise environment
• 6+ years of experience with WAN, SD-WAN, fixed telecom circuits, LAN, wireless, load balancing and other network technologies
• Effective leadership skills, ability to think in a strategic manner at a global level
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.

McCormick and 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, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.