Forecast to Schedule Business Lead - Boise, ID
The Simplot Company is a diverse, privately held global food and agriculture company headquartered in Boise, Idaho. We are a true farm-to-table company with an integrated portfolio including food processing and food brands, phosphate mining, fertilizer manufacturing, farming, ranching and cattle production, and other enterprises related to agriculture.
Summary
The Forecast to Schedule Business Process Lead is responsible for leading the design, alignment, implementation, and adoption of end-to-end business processes for major enterprise transformation program(s). This role represents the business, makes and coordinates process decisions on behalf of the business, and partners closely with IT functional teams, subject matter experts, change management, training, data, reporting, and leadership stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of future-state capabilities.
The role assesses current-state processes, defines future-state requirements, supports solution design, identifies change impacts, coordinates testing and training activities, and helps transition the organization to sustainable post-go-live operations.
Key Responsibilities
Lead Current-State Assessment and Future-State Definition
- Map current end-to-end business processes, reporting capabilities, data needs, handoffs, exceptions, controls, and decision points.
- Define business process requirements aligned with organizational goals, objectives, and transformation priorities.
- Identify minimum viable go-live process capabilities and future roadmap opportunities.
- Partner with data, reporting, and functional teams to support data profiling, cleansing, process scoping, reporting definition, and design decisions.
Design and Enable Future Business Processes
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define future-state business processes, capabilities, reports, analytics, and system-enabled solutions.
- Work with SAP S/4HANA, SAP Integrated Business Planning, IT, and functional teams to shape process design, solution features, reporting requirements, dashboards, data definitions, and business outcomes.
- Provide business feedback as solutions are built, identify gaps, support gap disposition, and help determine where process, policy, or procedure changes are required.
- Stay current on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies relevant to the assigned process area.
Drive Decision-Making and Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the primary business representative for the assigned process area, facilitating decisions and escalating issues where appropriate.
- Build and coordinate a network of SMEs from across the business to support design, validation, testing, training, and readiness activities.
- Update stakeholders, functional leaders, and program leadership on progress, risks, issues, decisions, and readiness.
- Influence stakeholders toward a common future-state vision while balancing global design needs with practical business requirements.
Support Implementation, Testing, Training, and Cutover
- Coordinate SMEs and end users to complete testing, validate process flows, support defect resolution, and sign off on outcomes.
- Partner with IT and business functional teams to validate process flows, handoffs, exceptions, approvals, and system behavior.
- Collaborate with product, training, change, and end-user teams to develop and deliver effective training and readiness activities.
- Support cutover activities, master data validation, end-user readiness, and transition planning for go-live.
Enable Adoption and Sustainment
- Partner with change leaders to drive adoption of new tools, processes, policies, and ways of working.
- Establish and support a super-user or process-owner network to sustain the solution after go-live.
- Identify enhancements, process improvements, and roadmap opportunities based on business needs, solution performance, and stakeholder feedback.
- Support post-go-live monitoring of process effectiveness, data quality, system usage, and adherence to designed processes.
Typical Education
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Bachelor’s degree required.
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Master’s degree preferred, depending on the business area and role scope.
Relevant Experience
- Five or more years of related experience required.
- Eight or more years of related experience preferred for more complex operational or enterprise process areas.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA, SAP Integrated Business Planning, SAP Analytics Cloud, enterprise systems, or large-scale business transformation preferred.
- Strong understanding of business processes, process design, data, reporting, controls, and cross-functional dependencies.
- Demonstrated experience influencing stakeholders, leading teams, managing priorities, and driving decisions in challenging environments.
- Experience coordinating SMEs and partnering with IT, organizational change management, HR, training, and functional teams preferred.
Required Certifications
Other Information
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex business, system, process, or data topics to non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, and business acumen skills.
- Ability to manage changing priorities, ambiguity, competing stakeholder needs, and evolving program requirements.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across business, IT, functional, data, reporting, training, and change teams.
- Ability to define a future-state process vision and connect business needs to enterprise transformation outcomes.
- Ability to design processes and solutions that support end-user needs and business outcomes.
- Ability to take ownership of process-area decisions, deliverables, risks, issue resolution, and readiness.
Job Requisition ID: 27727
Travel Required: Less than 10%
Location(s): Simplot Headquarters - Boise
Country: United States
**The Simplot Company is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, marital status, or any other protected status.
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