SAP Lead

Why Flowers?

Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE: FLO) is one of the largest producers of packaged bakery foods in the United States with 2022 sales of $4.8 billion. Among the company's top brands are Nature's Own, Dave's Killer Bread, Wonder, Canyon Bakehouse, and Tastykake. Learn more at www.flowersfoods.com.

Our team is the essential ingredient to success. We embrace diversity and foster an environment that reflects our values of Honesty & Integrity, Respect & Inclusion, Sustainability, Passion, and Humility.

Full-time employees are offered:

• Comprehensive health and medical benefits
• 401(k) Retirement savings plan
• Professional growth and leadership training
• Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave

Benefits may vary depending on your work location and your participation in a collective bargaining unit.

Summary

Responsible for creating and supporting SAP and related solutions for Flowers Food’s supply chain processes including the design and configuration of SAP modules to effectively meet documented business requirements. This role also creates functional documentation for enhancements, integrations, and data conversions.

The Lead Process & Solutions Supply Chain Analyst is an expert in the functionality of the SAP materials management and supply chain modules and execution of design, build, test, and change activities in the Supply Chain application area.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, configure, test and implement SAP supply chain solutions.

• Create functional design documents for enhancements, integrations, and data conversions.

• Execute SAP supply chain functional activities in partnership with Business Relationship Management Supply Chain Team, SAP Development, SAP Analytics teams and the SAP managed and SAP related 3rd party supply chain application service providers.

• Mentor SAP Analysts.

• Support Management in the assessment of emerging SAP technologies against business needs and interpret business value.

• Ensure the consistency and maintainability of new and existing SAP supply chain applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing technical and quality standards, guidance and reference architectures.

• Develop productive relationships with business across the organization to influence how SAP supply chain applications can enable new sources of value.

• Execute methodologies (i.e. Agile, Waterfall) and practices for the application life cycle management in line with best practice and practical experience of continuous improvement.

• Ensure that supply chain applications processes (including those of external service providers) are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, environmental and technical policies and applicable standards and legislation.

• Provide support in conjunction with infrastructure and operations to ensure SAP supply chain applications perform to Flowers’ standards. Assist analysts and developers in resolving issues.

• Seek out continuous improvement opportunities and provide input and recommendations.

• Comply with all company policies and procedures (EEO, Sexual Harassment, Safety, Sarbanes Oxley, etc.).

• Perform other duties deemed by management to be an integral part of the job, including, but not limited to fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and other applicable operating rules, policies and procedures.

Desired Experience

• 5+ years of progressive experience in SAP application design, development, quality assurance and implementation processes.

• 1 year of demonstrated leadership experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients.

• In-depth knowledge and experience of SAP capabilities in most of the following SAP Supply Chain areas: Plan to Produce, Production Planning, Purchasing, Supplier collaboration management, Materials Management, Quality Management and Supply Chain Master Data processes.

• Experience integrating SAP Supply Chain solutions into a broad array of non-legacy technologies and architectures.

Desired Education

• An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering, finance, business management, engineering or a related field. MIS, CIS or business-related degree is preferred.