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The program is focused on the design and implementation of SAP S/4HANA in Mars across Segments (Petcare, Corporate, Snacking & Food) with an initial focus on our Royal Canin Division. Much more than a simple “Lift and Shift,” this program will undertake a major process simplification and harmonisation scope as we digitally transform our business.\nThe program focuses on several key process areas including Finance, Source to Pay (procurement and vendor mgmt.), Plan to Fulfil (manufacturing and distribution), Lead to Cash (sales order processing and payment) as well as Quality & Food Safety. This transformation requires thought leadership, quality decision making, deep technical know-how, and an ability to navigate complex business challenges.\nThe CoE SAP QM Template Analyst will report to the CoE Q&FS Director. This may change to CoE Q&FS Testing & Conformance Senior Lead as the role is filled.\nThis role is responsible for supporting the design and build of new capabilities based on SAP S/4 HANA and the SAP Business Technology Platform to enable Royal Canin's and Mars' future processes for material testing and ensuring conformance to specification of our raw materials, packaging, semi-finished and finished goods. Once the template is built, this role will provide support to regional deployment teams acting as the link between the CoE team and deployment teams.\nKey Responsibilities\n Partner with Corporate and Royal Canin Process Owners and regional teams to define requirements for Quality Management (QM) solutions ensuring alignment with business and regulatory standards.\nAnalyze opportunities for harmonization by identifying where factories, divisions and segments can adopt common SAP QM solutions, and where unique requirements necessitate tailored approaches.\nPartner with the System Integrator to ensure business requirements are effectively translated Into technical specifications for capabilities defined with the Q&FS Testing & Conformance workstream.\nEnsure SAP QM solution designs uphold compliance by implementing appropriate separation of duties, robust security roles, and restricted access to sensitive quality and testing data.\nChampion high standards of knowledge management to secure the long-term value of SAP QM solutions, including documentation, training, and best practice sharing.\nSupport robust testing and validation plans for SAP QM solutions, ensuring all business, regulatory, and technical requirements are met prior to deployment, including oversight of test script development and execution.\n Work closely with other Centers of Excellence (CoE), such as those responsible for Logistics and Product Manufacture, to ensure seamless handover of quality data.\nRepresent the CoE Q&FS template during deployments, including pilot deployments which will need more template team involvement\nPartner with deployment teams and division BPOs to execute Fit to template reviews and UAT.\nProvide S/4 template guidance to deployment analysts with the aim of maximum standardization\nProvide guidance on integration of edge solutions using the template interface portfolio.\nWhen potential template gaps are identified, conduct detailed analysis together with the deployment team and BPOs. Recommend options from within the standard template, where possible influence to change local processes instead of changing the template.\nValidate any gaps with the relevant BPO & GPO, then escalate back to the template team for solution design. May propose solutions, but priority is to clearly define the business gap.\nKnowledge / Experience\n2+ years experience with design and implementation of the SAP QM module.\nIdeally SAP PP / MM experience\nExperience with SAP global template design / development\nStrong knowledge of Quality & Food Safety practices.\nGood communications, especially in English\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills\nAble to adapt style to work with non-native English speakers\nExperience working in ambiguous and changing contexts.\nExperience investigating business requirements\nManages multiple activities and priorities under pressure","description_format":"text","description_chars":4218,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Proficiency (C2)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Poland","iso":"PL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Pet Food, Supplies & Care","Confectionery"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-31T05:17:34Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":5,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.174,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":76,"expected_fill_days":17,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mars-coe-sap-qm-template-analyst","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mars-coe-sap-qm-template-analyst.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-04T09:42:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":15076,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-05T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":94439},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=94439"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmars-coe-sap-qm-template-analyst"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmars-coe-sap-qm-template-analyst"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmars-coe-sap-qm-template-analyst"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/mars-coe-sap-qm-template-analyst\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmars-coe-sap-qm-template-analyst"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3562266}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"mars.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3562266},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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