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Position Description and Purpose:
Founded in 1923 and headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Roskam Foods is a leading contract manufacturer that partners with world-renowned food brands, retailers, and food service providers to produce a myriad of frozen, refrigerated and shelf-stable products. We're a scaled, diversified operation with over 2 million square feet of manufacturing and 50 production lines across 8 facilities in the U.S. and Canada. We believe in the power of purpose-driven leadership to generate value for all. And we're on a mission to optimize the potential of our people and brands. We are passionate about multiplying possibilities for our employees and our partners.
Roskam Foods produces and packages food products with the goal of consistently meeting and exceeding customer expectations for quality, safety, and wholesomeness.
Key Essential Functions/Duties:
Enterprise Technology Strategy and Leadership
Develop and execute a pragmatic technology roadmap aligned with Roskam Foods' growth, manufacturing, customer, and operational priorities.
Lead all IT functions, including enterprise applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, service delivery, technical data architecture, integration, and vendor management.
Translate business needs into clear priorities, investment decisions, accountable owners, and measurable outcomes.
Support acquisition due diligence and integration planning, as applicable, by assessing technology platforms, cybersecurity, data, infrastructure, contracts, costs, risks, and required investments, and by helping execute practical post-close integration plans.
Operate as a hands-on executive who can move from strategy and governance into issue resolution, project detail, and implementation when needed.
ERP Program Leadership
Assume executive accountability for the Microsoft D365 Finance & Supply Chain program, including scope, governance, resources, schedule, risks, budget, quality, and adoption.
Complete and stabilize the Canadian ERP implementation, resolve open issues, and convert lessons learned into a stronger template for the U.S. rollout.
Kick off and lead the U.S. ERP implementation with disciplined process design, master data readiness, testing, training, cutover, and change management.
Plan and execute the incorporation of a recent Canadian acquisition onto the common D365 platform and standardized business processes.
Maintain a strong preference for standard functionality, limiting customization to compelling regulatory, customer, or business-critical requirements.
Manufacturing Systems and Business Partnership
Partner closely with operations, finance, supply chain, commercial, quality, and plant leadership to improve business processes through technology.
Ensure systems support the realities of complex, multi-site manufacturing, including planning, scheduling, inventory, traceability, quality, warehouse, maintenance, and production reporting.
Build credibility on the plant floor by understanding operational constraints, responding quickly, and balancing enterprise standards with practical execution.
Identify automation and digital opportunities that improve safety, quality, service, labor productivity, cost, and decision-making.
Partner with the business owners of Redzone, Workday, OneStream, and other functionally managed platforms to clarify responsibilities and provide appropriate IT support for architecture, integration, cybersecurity, technical data, vendor management, business continuity, and future technology decisions.
Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Service Delivery
Provide reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure, networks, cloud services, end-user support, disaster recovery, and business continuity across all locations.
Establish a risk-based cybersecurity program with clear controls, monitoring, incident response, testing, awareness, and executive reporting.
Improve service management, issue escalation, root-cause resolution, asset lifecycle planning, and user satisfaction.
Protect production continuity and ensure critical manufacturing and business systems have appropriate resilience and recovery capabilities.
Data, Integration, and Digital Enablement
Own the technical data architecture, integration platforms, data models, system configuration, security, access controls, and reporting technology across the enterprise.
Partner closely with Finance leadership and the Director of Master Data. Finance leadership owns the master data governance function, including the Director of Master Data and support team; the Director establishes standards, stewardship practices, and data quality accountabilities.
Provide the systems, workflows, controls, monitoring, and technical expertise needed to enable effective master data governance and improve data readiness before each ERP phase.
Identify and selectively pursue practical AI opportunities after the necessary ERP, data, security, and process foundations are in place, prioritizing capabilities embe
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