Enterprise Business Architect - Greencore : Job Details

Why Greencore?

We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better!

We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Why we embarked on Making Business Easier?

Over time processes have become increasingly complex, increasing both the risk and cost they pose, whilst restricting our agility. At the same time, our customers and the market expect more from us than ever before. Making Business Easier forms a fundamental foundation for our commercial and operational excellence agendas, whilst supporting managing our cost base effectively in the future.

The MBE Programme will streamline and simplify core processes, provide easier access to quality business data and will invest in the right technology to enable these processes.

Why is this exciting for your career as the Enterprise Business Architect?

The MBE Programme presents a huge opportunity for colleagues across the technology function to play a central role in the design, shape, delivery and execution of an enterprise wide digital transformation programme. The complexity of the initiative, within a FTSE 250 business, will allow for large-scale problem solving, group wide impact assessment and supporting the delivery of an enablement project to future proof the business.

As the Enterprise Business Architect, you will interpret business strategies to meet operational needs, ensuring that business capabilities and process landscape aligns with strategic objectives. Develops and maintains business capabilities and process model for the Enterprise to better plan, prioritise and design business change activity, support our business process owner network to be effective in making 'one Greencore' decisions.

What you'll be doing:

• Create business architecture models to demonstrate process and system interoperability for scoping
• Provide guidance and develop blueprints to translate strategic ideas into change initiatives
• Maintain and refine the Enterprise Process Model, working with Business Process Owners
• Support scoping and strategic planning for change projects to develop business capabilities
• Identify areas for process improvement and recommend efficiency initiatives
• Collaborate across functions to shape new business change demands and understand implications
• Analyze initiative design proposals with business owners, including process and organizational changes
• Determine the best path for solving business problems, including process improvements and system enhancements
• Advocate for best practices in business architecture to standardize approaches
• Engage with project teams to promote alignment with business architecture
• Facilitate design decisions for process and organizational changes
• Champion adherence to business architecture standards and best practices
• Monitor compliance with frameworks to maintain alignment
• Support Business leadership and Process Owners to drive consistency in operations
• Build and nurture relationships across project teams for a collaborative environment
• Document architecture, processes, governance, and data usage

What you'll need:

• Deep understanding of business domain, architecture discipline, processes, concepts, and best practices.
• Strong strategic planning capabilities with a consulting mindset and proven modeling skills.
• Design thinking to synthesize ideas into a big picture view.
• Understanding of market influences, differentiating factors, and value creation.
• Strong soft skills, systems thinking, change management techniques, and awareness of economic and technological changes.
• Effective leadership skills, including negotiation, persuasion, teaching, conflict resolution, and political astuteness.
• Analytical skills like technical translation, abstraction, pattern recognition, and holistic thinking.
• Experience with EA tools such as LeanIX, Bizzdesign, etc.
• Experience building a new EA capability.
• Experience implementing EA frameworks like TOGAF, Zachmann, etc.
• Experience with AI/Machine Learning implementation.

What you'll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Car Allowance
• Annual Target Bonus
• PSP Target Bonus
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• PMI Cover
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.