Manager, SAP Solutions

Salary Range: $135,000.00 To $150,000.00 Annually

JOHNVINCE FOODS

Manager, SAP Solutions · Centre of Excellence Manager

555 Steeprock Drive, North York, Ontario. Full time, on site.

ABOUT JOHNVINCE COMPANY

Johnvince Company™ is a leading North American snacking organization with more than 50 years of food manufacturing and commercial expertise.

Founded in 1973, we have evolved from a family-run business into a vertically integrated enterprise spanning nuts, candy, chocolate, fruit bites, popcorn, pantry staples, and private label innovation. Today, we operate 10 facilities across North America with more than 2,000 team members.

We scale with disciplined execution, entrepreneurial drive, and an unwavering commitment to quality, safety, and performance.

Our Purpose: Exceeding customer cravings, one bite at a time.

Our Vision: To lead the way in redefining customer experiences through flavourful snacking and service solutions.

We are guided by five core values:

• We Lead by Legacy
• We Are Customer Obsessed
• We Own It
• We Win Together

Safety, quality, and integrity define how we operate across every business unit within the Johnvince Company™ platform .

ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

We are consolidating several businesses onto one SAP S/4HANA platform. Three entities are live. Further entities go live in 2027 and 2028.

Alongside SAP we are delivering analytics on SAP Business Data Cloud, demand and supply planning, manufacturing execution, ecommerce, and spend automation. The SAP platform is the spine that all of it connects to.

This is not a maintenance role. This is a live program with published readiness gates and a business that is changing how it works at the same time. We are building an internal organization that owns the system rather than renting one.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

Manager, SAP Solutions · Centre of Excellence Manager

Chief Information Officer

TYPE

Permanent

BASED

PARTNERS WITH

The business process owners, the master data function, the technical and integration teams, the programme leadership, and the systems integrator and AMS partners

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS

This is the person who leads the functional team through go-live and then runs the Centre of Excellence. It is a working leadership role. Five functional leads report to you, and you are expected to sit down in any one of those streams and do the work: read the configuration, write the test script, work the defect, explain the process to the business owner. We are not hiring someone to manage a status report.

WHAT YOU OWN

• The functional team across order to cash, procurement, plan to manufacture, record to report and extended warehouse management
• Master data standards within your streams: holding the team to them, and the measures that show whether we are, in partnership with the master data function
• Design quality within each stream and consistency between them
• Functional test execution across the three passes, and the defect backlog
• The design and documentation standard across the streams, and holding the team to it
• The working relationship between the functional team and the business process owners
• After go-live, the Centre of Excellence: demand intake, release management, the enhancement backlog, the AMS service relationship, and the capability plan for the team

YOUR FIRST SIX MONTHS

• Take ownership of the functional team and give us an honest assessment of depth by stream
• Get into the system. You should be able to walk any stream design without the analyst in the room
• Own the defect backlog through the three test passes, with the burn-down visible weekly
• Build the Centre of Excellence operating model, ready to switch on at go-live
• Develop the team. Sit in their designs, read their test scripts, and close the gaps you found in the depth ass