Data Lead Program Leo

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, including North, South and Central America

Position Overview

The Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Data Lead will perform a variety of tasks related to the transition from a Legacy SAP ERP system to S/4 HANA. The role is responsible for data activities within the Supply Chain workstream impacting manufacturing, distribution, and/or materials management. In addition, the Data Lead will be asked to perform tasks related to overall functional requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement and quality assurance testing.

Responsibilities

The IBP Data Lead reports to a Global Process Manager and demonstrates strong business and technical acumen in end to end supply chain planning. The Data Lead will be directly responsible for the following activities:

• Data Conversion
• Functional Specification Mapping
• Conversation action rules
• Maintaining cross reference files
• Designing and creating business rules
• Functional Unit Testing
• Data Validation
• Pre-load and Post-load validation activities
• Coordination with cutover team according to project plan
• Point of contact/Liaison for part-time data validators
• Completion of Data Validation reports
• Determination of data quality/accuracy percentages
• Data Construction
• Populate data construction templates (DCT) based on process design decisions
• Work with non-SAP legacy sites to bring them up to speed on process design
• Consistently review and update DCT files leading up to load cycles
• Data Governance
• Functional Specification review with GD team
• Perform user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Identify SLA and metrics for MDG workflows
• Steward data through MDG workflows
  

Required Qualifications

• 5-8 years of relevant experience and demonstrated knowledge and understanding of McCormick’s current business processes, their assigned functional area, and ways of working
• Demonstrated buy-in for transformational change at McCormick and specifically Program Leo
• Demonstrated SAP experience and ability to quickly develop working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA
• Proficient with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., PowerPoint, Word, Teams)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills
• Global mindset and cross-cultural competency
• Strong organizational, analytical, and administrative skills in a deadline-driven environment
• Aptitude and enthusiasm for learning and teaching
• Highly flexible and adaptable to change
• Strong team player and ability to work well within a process team
  
  

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 value

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