Solutions Architecture – Planning & Manufacturing

Overview

Purpose & Impact

This role reports into the Enterprise Architecture function and is accountable for leading SAP solution design across the Nomad Foods landscape, working closely with business and delivery teams across IT and OT environments. The role focuses on defining fit‑for‑purpose SAP solution architectures, supporting major transformation initiatives (e.g. SAP S/4

HANA, ERP modernisation, MES integration, CRM, and data platforms), and ensuring solution designs align with agreed enterprise standards and business strategy.

The SAP Solution Design Architect plays a critical role in translating business needs across production, quality, R&D, procurement, logistics, sales, and finance into robust, scalable, and secure SAP solutions. The role provides architectural guidance and design assurance, ensuring technology decisions are well‑informed, sustainable, and deliver measurable business value across all markets.

An experienced SAP Solution Architect with a strong track record of delivering outcomes through collaboration across business and technology teams. The role works closely with stakeholders to support the design, adoption, and evolution of SAP solutions across the Nomad Foods landscape, ensuring alignment to agreed architecture standards and business objectives.

The individual brings the credibility and experience to challenge constructively and influence effectively at multiple levels, driving collaboration, clarity, and well informed decision making. Operating with integrity and professionalism, they act as a trusted partner with a pragmatic, solution oriented approach to identifying and addressing risks and opportunities.

The successful candidate is able to cut through complexity
, synthesising technical and business information into clear, objective solution designs and recommendations. They communicate decisions confidently and effectively, supporting delivery teams and stakeholders with well reasoned, evidence based guidance.

ONE NOMAD

Acts as a role model for the One Nomad mindset, demonstrating collaborative, agile, and outcome focused behaviours aligned to Nomad Foods’ values. Proactively connects across IT and business teams to design and deliver SAP solutions that support business performance and strategic objectives.

BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP

Builds strong, trusted partnerships with business stakeholders, product owners, and delivery teams across the SAP landscape. Works closely with business leaders to understand requirements and translate them into fit for purpose SAP solution designs that maximise value, enable efficient delivery, and support Nomad Foods’ objectives across regions and business units. Clearly articulates solution decisions, tradeoffs, and architectural value.

SOLUTION GOVERNANCE & DESIGN

Provides solution‑level architecture governance across the SAP estate with a strong focus on Planning, Manufacturing and Supply Chain capabilities, including SAP S/4

HANA, IBP (Integrated Business Planning), manufacturing execution and shop‑floor integrations, logistics and warehousing touchpoints, sales planning, commercial and order‑to‑cash processes, as well as BW/analytics, integrations and extensions.

Ensures solution designs align to agreed enterprise architecture standards, SAP best practices, and target‑state architectures, enabling end‑to‑end business processes across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver and Commercial execution. Actively identifies design risks, cross‑domain dependencies and impacts across the wider SAP and non‑SAP landscape (including planning tools, manufacturing systems, commercial platforms and external partners), escalating where appropriate. Contributes to architecture reviews, governance forums and design authorities, ensuring solutions are scalable, supportable and outcomes‑led across global operations.

COMPLIANCE & STANDARDS

Ensures SAP solution designs comply with Nomad Foods’ architecture standards, security, data, and compliance policies. Supports controlled change across SAP processes, applications, integrations, and data models by ensuring designs are documented, reviewed, and approved in line with governance expectations.

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