Manager, Specification & PLM Systems

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Manager, Specification & PLM Systems

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

TEAM:
Commercial Technology & Innovation Team

REPORTING TO:
Senior IT Category Services Director

ABOUT US

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With more than 1,400 employees across 28 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

Most importantly, we're a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.

WHAT MATTERS THE MOST

Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves henticity and diversity are critical elements of our business. They can only be realized when we create access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving.

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WHY WE THINK YOU WILL LOVE THIS ROLE

The Manager, Specification & PLM Systems will sit within our Commercial Technology & Innovation team.

The mission of this role is to drive the long-term evolution of our Specification and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platforms, ensuring they remain modern, scalable, and capable of delivering new business value and capabilities over time. As the product owner and platform steward for Centric and Specright, you will drive platform strategy, roadmap planning, and investment priorities while ensuring the systems effectively support the way our Packaging, Category, and GMS organizations operate.

Working closely with business owners and subject matter experts, you will translate business processes into platform capabilities, define and maintain requirements, ensure traceability across enhancements and releases, and prototype solutions. You will train yourself on new platform capabilities as Centric and Specright release them, staying abreast of innovation in the PLM and SDM space. You will lead the adoption of vendor innovations, evaluate new capabilities, and continuously optimize platform configuration to maximize business value and reduce reliance on customization.

This role is intentionally both strategic and hands-on. You will serve as the senior platform administrator, responsible for configuration management, security and permission administration, environment management, release and upgrade planning, data governance, and escalated application support. You will own the delivery backlog, establish governance and operating standards, and partner with vendors and service providers to ensure commitments, service levels, and quality expectations are met.

Ultimately, you will be accountable for creating a trusted foundation for product and specification data, enabling the business to innovate faster, improve compliance, strengthen data quality, and fully realize the value of our Specification and Product Lifecycle Management investments.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ORGANIZATION PLM & Specification Data Management (SDM) Ownership

• Own the PLM and SDM SaaS platforms end to end, from selection and onboarding through continuous capability expansion, renewal, and eventual replacement.
• Define and execute the multi-year product vision, roadmap, and investment strategy for Centric PLM, Specright SDM, and related business…