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McCormick & Company, Inc., a world leader in the spice, flavor and seasonings industry, is seeking a full time IT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP CONSULTANT Ion a Program Leo
- Business Transformation supporting a major industrial customer. This new hire will work in Global HQ
, locatedin Hunt Valley, MD
. The IT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP CONSULTANT I will report to a VP IT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS .

With more than $5 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 manufacturers and food service businesses. We create differentiating flavors consumers prefer with unmatched quality, science, innovation and service. Every day, no matter where or what you eat, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick.

McCormick makes every moment and meal better™

As a company recognized for exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick offers a wide variety of benefits, programs and services. Benefits include, but are not limited to, tuition assistance, medical, dental, vision, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays and vacations.

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 Consultant I 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. This position serves as the top functional or technical
• consultant on all projects touching their area of expertise.
• On all but the largest projects, incumbent may act as the IT Project Manager. The incumbent also has functional and technical expertise in multiple technical areas (EDI, Workflow, BW, Portal, etc.) across business subprocesses.

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.
• Owns IT LTP in area of expertise. Working closely with steering committees, business leads, BRD, internal and external customers, vendors and peer companies, research, evaluate, and recommend new technologies to support McCormick’s strategic initiatives.
• Seeking constant improvement opportunities and appropriately challenges processes, streamline and optimize business and/or IT processes whilst
• May serve as project functional leader, team member or IT Project Manager on multiple applications, technology projects and strategic planning initiatives.
• For projects, formulate systems scope, estimates, and objectives relative to business needs and project requirements, considering application of industry best practices and new technologies.
• Participates in project design reviews for large (Tier 1 and
  2) projects.

Required Qualifications

Level of Education and Discipline: BA/BSc
- Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or related discipline

Certification and/or Licenses: SAP, PMP

Experience functional/industry/commercial knowledge, business acumen: 12 years in-depth experience with 5 years expertise in more than one functional area. Minimum of 5 full life-cycle implementations, preferably including 2 with global deployment. Solution design experience across multiple sub-processes or SAP modules (e.g., Order to cash, procure to pay, record to report or SAP modules such as SD, MM, HR, APO, FI, PP, GTS, etc.)

and technical area (e.g., EDI, Workflow, BW, Portal) Demonstrated ability to lead in problem solving process for projects and support.

Interpersonal Skills
:
Ability to build relationships, interface effectively with all levels of the leadership, interactions, communication, influence…