Sr Director, ERP Transformation

About this role

Since 1869, we've connected people through food they love. We’re proud to be stewards of amazing brands that people trust. Our portfolio includes the iconic Campbell’s brand, as well as Cape Cod, Chunky, Goldfish, Kettle Brand, Lance, Late July, Pacific Foods, Pepperidge Farm, Prego, Pace, Rao’s Homemade, Snack Factory, Snyder’s of Hanover. Swanson, and V8. 

Here, you will make a difference every day. You will be supported to build a rewarding career with opportunities to grow, innovate and inspire. Make history with us.

Why Campbell’s… • Benefits begin on day one and include medical, dental, short and long-term disability, AD&D, and life insurance (for individual, families, and domestic partners). • Employees are eligible for our matching 401(k) plan and can enroll on the first day of employment with immediate vesting. • Campbell’s offers unlimited sick time along with paid time off and holiday pay. • If in WHQ – free access to the fitness center. Access to on-site day care (operated by Bright Horizons) and company store. • Giving back to the communities where our employees work and live is very important to Campbell’s.   Our “Campbell’s Cares” program matches employee donations and/or volunteer activity up to $1,500 annually. • Campbell’s has a variety of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support employees.

How you will make history here…  

Role Overview   The Senior Director, ERP Transformation & Modernization reports to the VP, IT – Corporate and is responsible for the end-to-end execution of Campbell’s ERP modernization program. This is a hands-on program leadership role with clear accountability for the core ERP platform — including the custom extensions, integrations, and compensating systems that have been built directly around it over years of operating on a platform that has increasingly constrained the business.  The migration from SAP ECC to S/4HANA is the foundational move that anchors this work, but the scope extends to what surrounds the core: the technical debt, workarounds, and interface complexity that must be addressed to make the migration durable. This leader will work in close partnership with the Supply Chain IT and Commercial IT leaders — who retain ownership of their respective domains — to ensure ERP-dependent systems and processes are accounted for and sequenced correctly across the program.  In addition to program leadership, this individual will have direct management responsibility for the SAP Basis team, ensuring platform stability and continuity of operations throughout the transition. The ideal candidate is a seasoned execution leader with deep SAP domain expertise, firsthand experience navigating the complexity of heavily customized ERP environments, and the credibility to drive alignment across technical teams and business stakeholders, and to prepare the program narrative for executive leadership. 

What you will do…  

Key Responsibilities  

ERP Landscape Assessment & Rationalization   • Lead a comprehensive assessment of the current ERP landscape, including core ECC configuration, custom ABAP development, third-party integrations, middleware dependencies, and satellite systems built to compensate for platform limitations.  • Identify and prioritize opportunities to rationalize the landscape — retiring redundant tools, collapsing integrations, eliminating custom code that standard S/4 functionality can replace, and simplifying the overall architecture.  • Establish a clear picture of the true scope of transformation required, including the full inventory of interfaces and subtending systems that must be addressed as part of or alongside the core ECC-to-S/4 migration.  • Partner with enterprise architecture to define the target-state ERP ecosystem, including integration patterns (BTP, API-first), extensibility guardrails, and clean-core standards that will govern future development. 

Transformation Program Execution   • Own the end-to-end program plan for ERP modernization, including the ECC-to-S/4 migration and the broader landscape work required to support it — scope, sequencing, scheduling, resource model, risk register, and interdependency management across all workstreams.  • Drive the conversion approach decision (greenfield, brownfield, or selective data transition) in partnership with enterprise architecture, finance, and supply chain leadership, weighing complexity, risk, business continuity, and long-term flexibility.  • Establish and chair program governance structures including Steering Committee cadences, workstream leadership alignment, and executive status reporting with clear escalation pathways.  • Lead systems integrator selection, contracting, and ongoing performance management, ensuring delivery accountability is clearly defined and enforced throughout the program lifecycle.  • Manage cutover strategy, data migration governance, and hypercare planning across each deployment phase, with particular attention to the high-risk intersection of legacy interfaces and new platform capabilities. 

Integration Coordination & Technical Debt   • Partner with Supply Chain IT, Commercial IT, and other domain leaders to map ERP dependencies across the landscape — understanding what must be retired, re-platformed, or redesigned as part of the S/4 transition, with each domain owner retaining accountability for their systems.  • Drive the identification and disposition of custom ABAP, bespoke workflows, and compensating applications built directly around the ERP core — ensuring each is resolved, retired, or formally re-platformed rather than carried forward into S/4.  • Ensure that interface and integration workstreams are treated as first-class program deliverables — sequenced, resourced, and governed with the same rigor as the core ERP conversion, in close coordination with the IT leaders who own the connected domains.  • Collaborate with infrastructure, middleware, and application teams to ensure the technical architecture supporting S/4 is

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