IT Business Analyst II

About the Position

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, McCormick is a global leader in flavor. 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 flavorful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.

Position Overview

This position acts as the primary liaison to business workstream leaders and uses in-depth knowledge of our applications and tools to facilitate the optimization of business unit performance by enhancing the alignment between business process and information technology. The IT Business Relationship Analyst II is responsible for solution identification and design, translating business needs and objectives into solutions and technology roadmaps and solution delivery for assigned area. Primary focus is to shape global business processes to align with leading practice capabilities, whenever a competitive advantage is not required. The position serves to help the business navigate IT processes ensuring proper procedures are adhered to. On all but the largest projects, incumbent may act as the IT Project Manager. The incumbent also has functional and technical expertise in more than one business subprocesses.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Business Relationship Management: Primary liaison to business workstream leader to define solution, address business objectives, enable efficiencies. Influence business LTP with technology acumen.
• Technology Development: Works with respective Business Relationship Director to develop IT LTP in area of expertise. Working closely with business leads, internal and external customers, vendors and peer companies, research, evaluate, and recommend new technologies to support McCormick’s strategic initiatives.
• Process Improvement: Seeking constant improvement opportunities and appropriately challenges processes, streamline and optimize business and/or IT processes while maximizing effectiveness.
• Project Management: May serve as project functional leader, team member or IT Project Manager on multiple applications, technology projects and strategic planning initiatives. May work with Solution Architecture team to define system requirements. Involvement in bringing new applications to McCormick’s IT landscape.
• Project Planning: For projects, formulate systems scope, estimates, and objectives relative to business needs and project requirements, considering application of industry best practices and new technologies.
• Project Design Reviews: Participates in project design reviews for large (Tier 1 and 2) projects.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Required Qualifications

  • Education: BA/BSc - Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related discipline. May consider 10+ years in lieu of degree.
  • Certifications: SAP, PMP, or ITIL
  • Experience: 8+ years in-depth experience with 4 years expertise in more than one functional area. Minimum of 2 full life-cycle implementations, preferably including 1 with global deployment.
  • Technical Skills: Solution design experience across multiple sub-processes or SAP Supply Chain Management modules (e.g. MM, EWM, TM). Deep expertise in SAP IBP, ECC or S/4 PP/DS, APO (SNP/SNC/DP/gATP), and an eagerness to learn new technologies.
  • Interpersonal Skills: Ability to build relationships, interface effectively with all levels of the organization. Ability to influence across functional teams and manage relationships across multiple cultures. Excellent organizational and verbal communication skills; outstanding problem-solving skills and sound judgment. Demonstrated written communication skills, specifically, documentation of system design, configuration, and process specifications.
  • Other Skills: Expertise in delivery, project management, process management and business systems requirements definition. Knowledgeable of non-SAP tools such as ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, SharePoint.

• Preferred Qualifications

  • Education: MBA or Masters
  • Certifications: SAP S4

We Offer

• Competitive and comprehensive benefits
• Opportunities for growth
• A culture built on respect, recognition, inclusion, and collaboration

About the Company

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.

Why Work at McCormick?

As a McCormick employee you’ll be empowered to focus on more than your individual responsibilities. You’ll have the opportunity to be part of something bigger than yourself-to have a say in where the company is going and how it’s growing.

Between our passion for flavor, our 130-year history of leadership and integrity, the competitive and comprehensive benefits we offer, and our culture, which is built on respect and opportunities for growth, there are many reasons to join us at McCormick.

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