Why Greencore?
Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.
As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.
Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
Why is this an exciting time to be a SAP Supply Chain Specialsit at Greencore?
The SAP Supply Chain Specialist will be accountable for supporting the development and driving forward the overall product strategy for the SAP S4/HANA technology platform, that will act as the foundation to our digital transformation at a global level over the next decade.
As an SAP S4/HANA technology expert, the role holder will provide strategic and technical consultancy/guidance and advice to senior stakeholders setting both the platform strategy and design. They will also be partnering with IT technology colleagues and System Integrators.
The role will seek opportunities to re-engineer processes and re-architect solutions to deliver high quality, innovative, fully architected & strategic solutions. This will be accomplished by executing key initiatives through the full project management lifecycle working with internal and external IT professionals.
What you'll be doing:
- Collaborate with senior business and IT stakeholders working alongside Senior Product Manager to develop the product strategy aligning it with the overall business objectives
- Acts as a trusted advisor and builds and maintains relationships with IT colleagues and senior stakeholders to develop a clear understanding of business needs; ensures cost-effective delivery of IT services to meet those needs and can respond with agility to changing business priorities
- Complete comprehensive assessments of the existing SAP landscape, evaluating its effectiveness, scalability, and alignment with business goals. Identify opportunities for improvement and develop a roadmap for application modernization (including the use if AI agents and automation). Presenting the final assessment to Design Authority and Steerco
- Using specialist technology and business process knowledge, define & govern project scope in the SCM/EWM space and complete deliverables in agreed timelines. Manage backlog items from requirements gathering to deployment
- Collaborate with external vendors and partners, building relationships, and ensure delivery of high-quality services and solutions. Evaluate proposals and conduct technical configuration/customization of solutions that meet our customers’ needs and provide great user experience aligned with clean core principles
- Working with other teams, ensuring smooth transition and user acceptance of transformed applications
- Bring insight of industry trends and emerging technologies relevant, enable improvers to assess and recommend suitable tools, frameworks, and methodologies to drive efficiency, scalability, and maintainability of applications
- Responsible for ensuring all products supporting the business are compliant with internal security, risk management policies and practices, external regulatory and statutory requirements
- Work with the support organization to trouble shoot incidents and escalations providing resolution to break-fix issues. Demonstrate the ability to resolve complex issues, manage user relationships, and delivery. Proactively seek ways to reduce the volume of support work, identifying common/recurring issues, and proposing improvements
What we’re looking for:
- 5+ years of experience in SAP and business/industry
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, finance, business administration or related field, or equivalent SAP certification and work experience
- Proven end to end delivery of multiple SAP S4/HANA transformation programs (Build, Test, Deploy and Hypercare). Experience with template rollout
- SAP S4/HANA MM and EWM configuration experience is mandatory. Good knowledge of the technical and process integration across SCM and other functional areas e.g. P2P
- Track record in successful technical development, solution design, program and product delivery, as well as service management. Experience with managing continuous improvement backlog
- Experience with multi-track SAP landscapes and BTP capabilities
- Demonstrated breadth of knowledge and solution delivery experience across the end-to-end supply chain processes and integration points with other processes (e.g. O2C, P2P, RTR)
- Experience of working with multiple third parties
- Excellent relationship management, strong influence, and communication skills
- Deep content knowledge of respective functional areas (business operating models, processes & products). Best practice, fit to standard and clean core principles demonstrated
- Understanding of Agile Software Development, experience in Scrum, Kanban, and other methodologies. Experience with using tools such as Jira and CALM
- Experience with SAP S/4 HANA updgrades would be beneficial
- High-quality artefact approach, creation and maintenance
What you’ll get in return:
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Holidays
- Annual Target Bonus
- Car Allowance
- Competitive matched pension contributions
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.
