What you’ll be doing:

Maintain a Positive Relationship Between IT and the Business

• Manage applications and architecture that support our global business partners

• Develop relationships that will position IT as a trusted business partner
• Work with the business teams to identify, plan and build business cases for enterprise application needs

Solution Architecture & Design

• Develop and maintain the application architecture for Plan-to-Deliver (P2D) processes—covering production planning, job scheduling, manufacturing execution, inventory, and logistics.
• Design system integrations between platforms using modern middleware, APIs, and SQL-based data models.
• Translate business processes into robust, scalable system architectures.
• Define data flow diagrams and interface specifications ensuring accurate movement of data across and between systems.

Delivery & Implementation Leadership

• Lead the technical design and delivery of new applications or major system enhancements supporting production, quality, and supply-chain workflows.
• Establish design standards and integration frameworks that ensure consistency across multiple plants and systems.
• Oversee functional and technical testing to validate performance, data integrity, and system usability.
• Partner with manufacturing/supply chain engineers and planners to translate operational and supply chain requirements into digital solutions.

Continuous Improvement & Digital Strategy

• Identify opportunities to simplify, streamline and automate Plan-to-Deliver processes through data integration, analytics, and workflow automation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies (e.g., predictive maintenance, AI-enabled scheduling, IoT sensors) for manufacturing optimization.
• Develop and maintain architectural documentation, data dictionaries, and system diagrams.
• Collaborate with representatives of other IT/functional areas to ensure end-to-end process integration and consistency
• Ensure business application systems are developed in a way that complies with established standards, methodologies, and best practice

Stakeholder & Vendor Collaboration

• Act as the technical liaison between business process owners, IT delivery teams, and third-party solution providers.
• Lead architecture reviews and participate in vendor assessments for planning, manufacturing, and shipping applications.
• Provide technical leadership during system implementations, upgrades, and plant rollouts.
• Collaborate with supply-chain, operations, and quality teams to ensure solutions align with real-world production workflows.

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We’d love to hear from you if:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 7+ years of experience in solution architecture, systems integration, or IT delivery for manufacturing or process industries.
• Strong SQL, data modeling, and system integration skills (APIs, ETL, or Azure Data Services).
• Proven ability to translate operational workflows into digital solutions that drive measurable performance improvement.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Understanding of SIOP (Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning) data structures and reporting.
• Strong understanding of flexible and/or thermoformed packaging manufacturing processes (printing, lamination, slitting, extrusion, thermoforming, quality inspection, shipment).
• Familiarity with cloud or hybrid architectures (Azure preferred).
• Experience with Power BI, Qlik, or similar analytics platforms for production and supply-chain visibility.

Compensation:

The annual base salary range for this role is from $139,440 to $156,870, plus an annual target bonus of 12.5% of base salary.