McLane is one of the largest and most stable supply chain services leaders in the United States. We've been at the forefront of delivering retail and restaurant solutions for convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores, and chain restaurants for over 125 years. Our vision is to be an agile, innovative, and unified supply chain partner that delivers a superior customer experience, improves the lives of our teammates and community, and produces best-in-class returns.
Responsible for aligning business strategy with IT capabilities, optimizing operational processes, and providing business-driven architectural guidance for the organization. Map business goals to technology strategies while ensuring that enterprise architecture evolves to meet current and future needs.
This is a hybrid position which will require the candidate to report and work from the office three days a week. Therefore, interested candidates should be within a 50-minute radius from Temple, TX.
Benefits you can count on:
- Day 1 Benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA/HSA, and company-paid life insurance
- Paid holidays, earn vacation time, and sick leave accrual from day one.
- 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan after 90 days.
- Additional benefits: pet insurance, maternity/paternity leave, employee assistance programs, discount programs, tuition reimbursement program, and more!
Essential Job Functions:
- Develop and maintain the business architecture blueprint for the supply chain, aligning with the company's strategic goals and objectives.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze, design, and implement business processes and systems that improve the efficiency and performance of the supply chain.
- Define and maintain business capability models, value streams, customer journeys, and process architectures.
- Partner with IT and business stakeholders to ensure business requirements are translated into effective IT solutions.
- Conduct current-state analysis of business architecture and recommend future-state business capabilities, processes, and organizational changes.
- Facilitate workshops and discussions with key business leaders to document strategic business goals and requirements.
- Ensure that business architecture is integrated with enterprise architecture frameworks and roadmaps.
- Identify opportunities for technology solutions to support process improvements in the supply chain, including automation and advanced analytics.
- Provide business architectural oversight and governance for strategic IT and digital transformation initiatives.
- Act as a thought leader in enterprise architecture, bringing best practices in business architecture from both the supply chain industry and other sectors.
- Collaborate with solution architects and technical teams to ensure alignment between business and IT solutions.
- Evaluate emerging technology trends and their impact on supply chain operations and business processes.
- Support the creation of business cases, ROI analyses, and cost-benefit analyses to prioritize business and IT initiatives.
- Other duties may be assigned.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, business administration, supply chain management, or a related field. A master's degree is preferred.
- Seven or more years of experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, or related roles, with a strong focus on the supply chain industry.
- Proven experience in designing and implementing business capability models, value streams, customer journeys, and business process optimization in supply chain operations.
- Proven experience leading and collaborating with business and IT cross-functional teams in complex transformation projects and road mapping efforts for business outcomes.
- Experience in driving optimization of application portfolios.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes including procurement, production, distribution, and logistics.
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as The Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF), Zachman, or similar.
- Familiarity with enterprise business platforms (e.g., Enterprise Resource Planning, Transportation, Logistics, Salesforce).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to link business objectives to IT strategies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. Amazon Web Service, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and their role in enabling agile supply chain operations is preferred.
- Prior experience in large scale digital transformation and enterprise architecture strongly preferred.
Working Conditions:
Candidates may be subject to a background check and drug screen, in accordance with applicable laws.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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