Manager Manufacturing IT solutions
dsm-firmenich · Maastricht
Job title – Manager Manufacturing IT solutions
Locations – Maastricht, the Netherlands
Join our Digital & Technology – ERP & Applications team at Animal Nutrition & Health – Solutions and help drive the digital transformation of the Supply Chain and Manufacturing domain.
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). This is one of the two standalone entities to be created from ANH, as part of the divestment to CVC Capital.
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 relat
- 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.
About Solution Company
SolCo is built as a customer-focused, innovation-driven solutions company, dedicated entirely to animal nutrition.
It brings together products, services, data and expertise into one integrated offering - helping customers improve performance, manage complexity, and make more sustainable choices.
What sets SolCo apart is its strong regional presence and close connection to customers. With teams embedded in local markets, SolCo works side by side with customers to understand their needs and respond with practical, science-based solutions that make a real difference on farm and across production systems.
Our application process
Interested in this position? Please apply online by uploading your resume in English via our career portal. Due to privacy regulations, we can only actively interact with applications via our career portal.
Inclusion, belonging and equal opportunity statement
At Animal Nutrition & Health (ANH), we believe being a force for good starts with the way we treat each other. When people feel supported, included, and free to be themselves, they do their best work – and that’s exactly the kind of culture we’re building. A place where opportunity is truly equal, authenticity is celebrated, and everyone has the chance to grow, contribute, and feel they belong.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we’re serious about making our hiring process as fair and inclusive as possible. From inclusive language and diverse interview panels to thoughtful sourcing, we’re committed to reflecting the world we serve.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds — no matter your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes you, you.
And if you have a disability or need any support through the application process, we’re here to help – just let us know what you need, and we’ll do everything we can to make it work.
Agency Statement
We’re managing this search directly at Animal Nutrition & Health (ANH). If you’re applying as an individual, we’d love to hear from you. We’re not accepting agency submissions or proposals involving fees or commissions for this role.