About this role
Requisition ID: 39492
Job Description
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role
- The Senior Manager, Digital Manufacturing Applications provides enterprise leadership for a portfolio of more than 20 manufacturing software applications, including HMI and SCADA, data historians, packaging intelligence, SPC and MPC, reliability, and environmental, health, and safety systems.In this role, you will establish the long-term vision, strategy, governance, standards, roadmaps, and investment priorities for the digital manufacturing applications portfolio.
- You will lead product owners and support personnel while partnering with Manufacturing, Operations, IT, OT, Quality, regional teams, site resources, and external providers to deliver scalable and sustainable digital capabilities.
- You will balance transformational investment with operational reliability, cybersecurity, technical debt, compliance, and application lifecycle requirements.
- You will also provide portfolio-level oversight for major initiatives, ensuring that solutions deliver measurable business value, strong adoption, scalability, and long-term operational sustainability.
- What you'll be doing.
- Develop and execute the long-term strategy, enterprise roadmaps, governance, standards, and investment priorities for the digital manufacturing applications portfolio.
- Lead portfolio-level prioritization across strategic initiatives, business demand, operational support, lifecycle requirements, cybersecurity risks, and technical debt.
- Assess industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for application enhancements, innovation, and portfolio optimization.
- Partner with global stakeholders and key users to consolidate or retire redundant applications and promote the reuse of common platforms, architectures, integrations, data models, and solution patterns.
- Define program objectives, scope, success criteria, investment requirements, delivery expectations, and measurable business outcomes for major digital manufacturing initiatives.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of product owners and support personnel, establishing clear goals, performance measures, and development plans.
- Establish effective operating and governance models with site resources, superuser communities, technology teams, external service providers, and other key partners.
- Oversee application lifecycle management, system availability, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, supportability, integration, upgrades, deployment, and retirement.
- Drive incident and problem management practices, root-cause analysis, systemic corrective actions, and data-informed continuous improvement across the portfolio.
- Manage strategic vendor and service-provider relationships, including contract renewals, commercial negotiations, sourcing decisions, service models, and long-term technology partnerships.
- Serve as a senior technology partner to Manufacturing and Operations leadership, translating business needs and manufacturing strategy into technology capabilities, investment proposals, and executable roadmaps.
- Influence regional, site, business, and technology stakeholders toward common enterprise solutions while appropriately addressing legitimate local requirements.
- What you'll need to be successful.A bachelor's or master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.At least 10 years of experience working with manufacturing IT and OT systems.
- Significant leadership experience overseeing complex application portfolios, platforms, programs, or technical teams.
- Demonstrated experience establishing strategies and standards for manufacturing applications across multiple locations or business units.
- Hands-on knowledge of manufactur