The posting
Company Description
At Link Snacks, we show up hungry, roll up our sleeves, plaid or otherwise, and dive straight into the hard work. We don’t hide from challenges; we hunt them down. We push harder, move faster, and take the kinds of big swings that built this business in the North Woods of Wisconsin four decades ago.
We’re everyday people who deliver extraordinary results. Innovation, creativity, and urgency aren’t buzzwords, they’re expectations. And just like the real protein snacks we make across our global house of brands. What you see is exactly what you get: humble, gritty, passionate people who show up every day ready to not just participate in the meat snack industry that the Link Family created, but to move faster, innovate harder and keep raising the bar.
As part of the Link Snacks global enterprise, our team across EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) is focused on driving the growth of the real meat protein snack category with a strong emphasis on our brands: Jack Link’s®, Peperami®, BiFi®, Minuets® & Saint Agaûne®. We operate through a network of regional offices and production sites across Europe in Germany, Netherlands and United Kingdom.
Dominating this space across the world takes a team. A team that runs together, succeeds together, and celebrates together. A team that’s full of relentless energy and spirit that can only be fueled by one thing: a fist full of our delicious meat snacks.
But we’re not just about snacks; we’re driven by our core values: Be Real, Speed Matters, Stewardship, Relationship Driven, Self-Discipline, Show Awesome Character.
Values we bring to life. Every. Single. Day.
Job Description
Make a difference by becoming part of the No. 1 protein snack manufacturer worldwide as Senior Manager, SAP Architecture & IT Delivery at Jack Link’s EMEA.
Our spacious and modern EMEA HQ is in the vibrant Amsterdam, and includes a highly international team, with more than 25 different nationalities. Our EMEA team is committed to continuing its impressive EMEA expansion, one bite at a time, and becoming the regional leader in branded protein snacks.
This position is based in Amsterdam and you will be reporting to the Regional CFO, with a dotted line to the SVP of IT.
The Senior Manager, SAP Architecture & IT Delivery is responsible for the enterprise SAP solution architecture, the delivery, and support of SAP programs across all business domains, including Finance, Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, Supply Chain and Operations.
This role leads the regional SAP landscape and collaborates with the North America IT team to rollout of the global SAP blueprint across the EMEA, Asia Pacific (APAC) and Middle & South America (MASA) regions, ensuring adherence to the global template, a scalable and integrated architecture, and on-time, on-budget delivery.
This role will be the primary interface between business functional leaders and the IT delivery teams and will partner closely with North America leaders who own key program resources and with the system integrator’s offshore delivery teams. This will be accomplished through a combination of deep SAP architecture expertise, program leadership, trusted business relationships and strong communication skills.
- Leadership: Lead a team of functional and technical analysts and offshore and system integrator resources across EMEA, APAC and MASA to deliver competitively advantaged solutions.
- Plan and execute the regional SAP roadmap, translate demand into required delivery and support capacity, and engage Global IT through established portfolio and resource-planning forums to review changing regional needs, global impacts and resource priorities.
- Collaborate with business and IT teams through a regional demand-management cadence to align priorities, sequence initiatives against available capacity and escalate required trade-offs.
- Lead, coach, engage and professionally develop team members, building a high-performing, culturally diverse team that operates effectively across multiple time zones.
- Strengthening communication and operating rhythms between international regions and North America IT teams, ensuring timely visibility into regional demand, priorities, resource needs, dependencies and the status of ongoing initiatives.
- SAP Architecture & Strategy: Serve as the regional steward of the global SAP blueprint and template established in North America, applying its architecture standards, integration patterns and design principles while balancing global standardization with regional and statutory requirements.
- Partners with North America architects and process owners to govern fit-gap decisions and regional extensions, and feed regional requirements and lessons learned back into the global blueprint.
- Develop and implement SAP and enterprise application roadmaps, including S/4HANA transformation, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and cloud adoption, aligned to business goals.
- Govern integration architecture between SAP and surrounding platforms such as Salesforce.com, UKG, Martech, MES, WMS, TMS and third-party logistics systems.
- Identify and evaluate new technology solutions and present findings and recommendations to senior leadership and stakeholders.
- Program Delivery & Regional Migrations: Collaborate with North America leaders who own key program resources (e.g., process owners, architects, developers and data teams) to secure, plan and prioritize shared capacity for regional rollouts.
- Lead the rollout of the North America global SAP blueprint to EMEA, APAC and MASA, including the planning and delivery of S/4HANA migrations, system consolidations and upgrades.
- Coordinate offshore delivery resources with the system integrator, aligning onshore, offshore and North America teams on scope, schedule, handoffs and quality across time zones.
- Manage program risks, issues and dependencies, and provide clear status reporting to steering committees and executive sponsors.
- Oversee data migration, testing, cutover, hyper care and transition to support, ensuring minimal disruption to supply chain, manufacturing and financial operations.
- Ensure country’s localization requirements, including statutory reporting, tax, e-invoicing, language and currency, are addressed in each regional deployment.
- Drive organizational change management, training and user adoption in partnership with business and regional leaders.
- Business Partnership & Vendor Management: Serve as a trusted advisor to functional leaders across Finance, Sales, Marketing, HR, Supply Chain and Operations, sharing leading practices, benchmarking and peer company insights to ensure solutions enable bottom-line growth.
- Translate business requirements into scalable solutions and articulate technical concepts in terms of business value.
- Stay current on SAP product direction and industry trends to continuously improve system performance and user experience.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
EU Citizenship and/or valid work permit is required. Please note that relocation assistance is not available for this position. All applications must be submitted in English, as it is the company’s corporate language.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a related discipline—or equivalent experience. A master’s degree or MBA is preferred.
- 10+ years of SAP experience (mix of ECC and S/4HANA), including 5+ years in an SAP solution or enterprise architecture role.
- Proven track record leading full-lifecycle SAP implementations and S/4HANA migrations, including multi-country rollouts across EMEA, APAC and/or MASA.
- Experience rolling out a global SAP template or blueprint to multiple regions and leading in a matrixed organization by influencing resources outside a direct reporting line.
- 7+ years of experience leading and mentoring team members, including global, distributed and offshore teams.
- Strong program management skills, including budget, vendor and system integrator management and coordination of onshore/offshore delivery models.
- Demonstrated thought leadership, strategic thinking, problem-solving and prioritization skills, with a high degree of learning agility to flow between business functions.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate, influence and build relationships across cultures with a variety of audiences, including executive leadership, vendors, and business teams. Additional languages a plus.
Additional Information
Our benefits
At Link Snacks, you’ll find a competitive compensation and benefits package that supports performance, flexibility, and employee well-being!
- A competitive salary and excellent bonus scheme (above market)
- In addition to public holidays, you will benefit from 27 days of paid annual leave to rest, recharge, and maintain a healthy work–life balance.
- Hybrid working model, because we believe the future of work is based on a modern, adaptable, and agile workplace culture. 3 days from our office in Amsterdam and 2 home office days.
- Pension Scheme, we support your long-term financial well-being through a company-supported pension plan.
- Lunch on Mondays and nutritious snacks and fruit throughout the week
- Work from home allowance & commuting allowance, to help cover your travel costs between home and the office.
- You will be part of a vibrant, dynamic, and international team! Throughout the year, we organize a variety of team activities and initiatives designed to strengthen collaboration, encourage knowledge sharing, and foster a strong sense of belonging.
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Link Snacks provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by federal, state or local law.
