Associate Global Process Manager

Associate Global Process Manager
Haddenham, UK
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Global SAP Analytics Associate Global Process Manager (AGPM) acts as a crucial internal business consultant, leveraging both global process standards and deep technical system expertise to drive McCormick's global transformation. This role goes beyond general process consultation by focusing specifically on the strategic advancement of self-service Analytics across the organization. With the transition to S/4HANA and the expansion of SAP Analytics tools, including SAC, Analysis for Office, Datasphere, and Microsoft Power BI, the AGPM ensures seamless alignment between business requirements and cutting-edge technology solutions.
This alignment fosters a data-driven culture, maximizes the return on McCormick's SAP Analytics investments, and ultimately transforms the company's Analytics landscape, driving efficiency and innovation through actionable insights. The AGPM collaborates closely with Global Process Managers, Global Process Owners, business leaders, and the Organizational Readiness team, contributing to key design decisions (KDDs), user role mapping, and the execution of business metrics to ensure site deployment readiness.
Demonstrating strong business and technical acumen, the AGPM builds a comprehensive understanding of the program's future state and serves as a vital subject matter expert on SAP Analytics tools, leading and promoting the adoption of self-service Analytics across all process workstreams.
RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Champion Self-Service Analytics: Lead and promote the adoption of self-service Analytics across all process workstreams, serving as a subject matter expert on SAP Analytics tools (including SAP Analysis for Office, Fiori Apps, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Datasphere and Power BI) and empowering business users to access and analyze data independently.
  
• Guide and Support Analytics Captains: Provide guidance and support to Analytics Captains, collaborating with the Global Process Coordinator to ensure they have the knowledge and resources to effectively leverage SAP Analytics tools through aligned and effective training programs.
  
• Shape Training and Communication: Influence training materials and sessions to elevate self-service Analytics understanding and adoption across the organization, effectively communicating with stakeholders at all levels and promoting the benefits of self-service analytics.
  
• Lead Solution Confirmation and Global Process Alignment: Take ownership of driving alignment for Analytics solution confirmation across releases, including planning, execution, and communication of readouts, ensuring process workstreams and development efforts are synchronized.
  
• Process Improvement and KPI Management: Contribute to continuous improvement of global policies and processes related to SAP Analytics, defining, and implementing KPIs and performance measures leveraging best practice benchmarking with a focus on continuous improvement, and ensuring adequate and timely root cause analysis to understand problem drivers and implement necessary corrections.
  
• Change Management: Lead change management efforts related to training and adoption of SAP Analytics tools, driving adoption of global process standards, and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, and collaborating with process workstreams to drive testing, change, training, data, cutover, and hyper care activities.
  
• Team Leadership: Provide indirect leadership and guidance to team members, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing, and contributing to performance management through feedback and input on team members' contributions.
  
• Report Change Management: Lead the process to identify and communicate report changes from release to release, partnering with process workstreams and the development team to ensure business users have clear guidance on which reports to use and when, minimizing disruption and maximizing the value of reporting tools.
  REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS:
  
• Bachelor's Degree in related professional area with a proven work experience in lieu.
  
• Conveys credibility to influence and appropriately challenge business decisions with levels of leadership; escalates concerns as necessary.
  
• Ability to present complex information and represent the function in a variety of meetings, both internally and externally.
  
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment with multiple stakeholders.
  
• Proven ability to manage large scale projects and people and organize and prioritize work to meet deadlines with results.
  
• Customer focused approach.
  
• Technical proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as well as integrated systems requiring data reporting and Analytics.
  
• Demonstrated SAP experience and ability to quickly develop a working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and adjacent platforms.
  
• 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.
  
• Demonstrated patience necessary to productively respond to end-user support needs.
  
• Willingness to travel, if required.
  PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  
• Demonstrated in-depth knowledge and expertise across the global workstream capabilities.
  
• Extensive experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), including designing and developing dashboards, stories, and analytical applications.
  
• Proficiency in data visualization best practices and tools, with a focus on creating clear and compelling visual representations of data.
  
• Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA, particularly in areas related to Analytics and reporting (i.e. SAP Datasphere).
  COMPANY
  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 with recognized brands including British brand Schwartz.
  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 values.
  Agencies: McCormick as needed will work with external recruitment vendors through our Agency Portal. Unless previously contacted, McCormick does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies.
  McCormick & 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, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
  As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies