Manager Manufacturing IT solutions

Join our Digital & Technology – ERP & Applications team at Animal Nutrition & Health as Manager Manufacturing IT solutions and help drive the digital transformation of the Supply Chain and Manufacturing domain.

• Maastricht, the Netherlands

ANH-Solutions is a customer-focused, innovation-driven solutions company dedicated entirely to animal nutrition, operating globally across 55 countries. It brings together products, services, data, and expertise into one integrated offering—enabling customers to improve performance, manage complexity, and make more sustainable choices. With a strong regional presence and teams embedded in local markets, ANH-Solutions works closely with customers to deliver practical, science-based solutions that create real impact on farms and across production systems.

In this context, you will lead end-to-end Manufacturing Technology as a strategic capability by owning manufacturing applications and digital factory solutions, driving SAP and MES-enabled process transformation, ensuring seamless IT/OT integration, governing manufacturing master data and solution standards, and delivering integrated, secure, and high-quality digital capabilities that enable operational excellence, smart manufacturing, and continuous improvement across global production operations. You will also define and execute a value-driven digital strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business priorities and enabling scalable, customer-centric innovation across the value chain.

This position is part of the Solutions business (Solco), within Animal Nutrition & Health (ANH).

Your key responsibilities

As a Manufacturing IT Solution Expert, you will serve as the critical link between Manufacturing Operations and Digital & Technology, ensuring that digital solutions effectively enable and optimize manufacturing, quality, maintenance, production planning, and shopfloor execution processes across the global organization.

• Partner with Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, OT, and Global Process Owners to translate business requirements into scalable digital manufacturing solutions.
• Own the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of Manufacturing solutions and processes across SAP (PP, PP-PI, QM, PM, EWM), MES, OT, automation platforms, and related technologies.
• Ensure end-to-end solution architecture, process integration, and governance of manufacturing master data, supporting operational excellence, compliance, standardization, and business continuity.
• Drive Industry 4.0, Smart Factory, and IT/OT convergence initiatives through automation, shopfloor connectivity, real-time data, advanced analytics, and digital innovation.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders by optimizing manufacturing performance, OEE, quality, reliability, throughput, and cost through digital capabilities and process transformation.
• Lead stakeholder engagement, risk management, and delivery of global transformation programs (including SAP S/4HANA, MES, and Smart Factory initiatives), while promoting DevSecOps, product-centric ways of working, and adoption of emerging manufacturing technologies.

We offer

• A promising future as we are the number one provider of advanced feed additives, and premixes, supercharged by AI-driven precision services
• An eagerness to go above and beyond customer needs, driven by a vital purpose: making animal farming more sustainable
• A collaborative culture where your ideas and voice matter.
• A flexible work environment that empowers people to take accountability for their work and own the outcome
• Recognition and celebration of your efforts and accomplishments
• Opportunities for growth and advancement for those who embrace innovation and take initiative

You bring

• 8+ years of experience delivering and optimizing digital manufacturing solutions, with deep expertise in SAP Manufacturing (PP, PP-PI, QM, PM, EWM), MES, production planning, quality, maintenance, and shopfloor operations.
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes, master data, and operational technologies, including BOMs, routings, recipes, SCADA, PLCs, historians, ISA-95, IT/OT integration, and Smart Factory environments.
• Proven ability to design and integrate end-to-end manufacturing solutions across SAP, MES, Quality, Supply Chain, LIMS, Engineering, Warehouse Management, and OT platforms within complex global manufacturing organizations.
• Experience leading SAP S/4HANA, MES, Industry 4.0, manufacturing harmonization, and digital transformation programs, from requirements through deployment, adoption, and operational support.
• Strong understanding of application lifecycle management, Agile, Product-Centric and DevSecOps ways of working, including CI/CD, security-by-design, monitoring, reliability, and continuous improvement practices.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Engineering, Automation, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.
• Fluent in English, with excellent stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills across Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, OT, and Digital & Technology teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, combined with the ability to influence stakeholders, drive change, and successfully deliver complex global manufacturing transformation initiatives.