📍 Location: JBT Marel Boxmeer - Madrid - Barcelona
🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time, Hybrid (2-3 days a week at the office)
💼 Department: IT – Global Business Applications
💥 Lead the Future of Work at JBT Marel
Shape the future of our global SAP landscape during the transition from SAP ECC to S/4HANA.As our Lead Senior SAP Specialist for Equipment, you will be the key subject matter expert guiding this transformation. This role focuses on deep content ownership and is not a people management, consultant, or architecture position.
You will play a central role in delivering high quality and standardized SAP solutions across the full Equipment lifecycle. This includes sales, supply chain, distribution, services and all manufacturing related processes. You will also ensure successful delivery of complex CAPEX initiatives and act as the primary partner for internal stakeholders on all Equipment and manufacturing related continues improvement topics.
This is a senior role with high visibility. Strong communication skills in English are required.
🔍 About the RoleYou bring end to end expertise in Equipment oriented manufacturing within SAP, ideally across Sales, Supply Chain, Distribution and Service processes. You will guide functional design during our transition to S/4HANA, safeguard integrated process quality and ensure that solutions match the needs of a global equipment manufacturing environment.
A key part of your responsibility is driving standardization, quality control and harmonization across the SAP landscape. You will be the hands on specialist who ensures that our future S/4HANA system supports the full Equipment lifecycle in a robust and scalable way.
🧠 What You’ll Do- Act as the senior specialist for Equipment processes within the global SAP team
- Lead functional content during the SAP ECC to S/4HANA transition
- Ensure high quality end to end process design across Equipment, sales, supply chain, distribution and service
- Safeguard delivery of complex CAPEX programs and quality standards
- Translate business requirements into feasible and sustainable SAP solutions
- Guide documentation, testing cycles and knowledge transfer
- Manage internal stakeholders on manufacturing related RCI topics
- Support global initiatives focused on simplification, standardization and process harmonization
- Deep hands on expertise in SAP for Equipment and Manufacturing, including configuration and integration
- Strong understanding of end to end processes across Sales, Supply Chain, Distribution and Service
- Experience with S/4HANA in large scale transitions
- Ability to coordinate across SAP domains and ensure cohesive end to end solutions
- Experience with quality control and CAPEX related SAP processes is an advantage
- Strong English communication skills for working with international teams.
- Excellent collaboration skills and a proactive, solution‑oriented mindset.
There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you do something worthwhile for a living. That said, coming home from work knowing you made a difference is just one of the great things you can experience at JBT Marel. You can expect:
- Freedom to influence SAP standards and contribute to global initiatives
- Freedom to take initiative and make a real impact in a growing global business
- An environment of trust and respect with space to explore and fail
- A collaborative, inclusive team culture with international cooperation
- Continuous learning through our advanced learning platform, with unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning and Busuu language learning
- All the tools you need to succeed: laptop, iPhone, and a fully equipped home office
- Excellent work life balance, including 42 vacation days, flexible working hours, and hybrid working options
- A strong pension plan and collective health insurance options
- An environment built on trust and respect, with room to explore, learn, and even fail
- To get a career instead of a job. We have many opportunities for internal growth; and we encourage it!
We’re excited to learn how you can contribute to our mission of smarter, safer food inspection. Apply now and join a team transforming the future of food processing.
📧 Questions? Contact: Maarten Krepel – [email protected]
🌐 Learn more at: jbtmarel.com
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Connect with Talent Acquisition Specialist: www.linkedin.com/in/maartenkrepel
JBT Marel is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
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Skills Required
- Deep hands-on expertise in SAP for Equipment and Manufacturing, including configuration and integration.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end processes across Sales, Supply Chain, Distribution and Service.
- Experience with S/4HANA in large scale transitions.
- Ability to coordinate across SAP domains and ensure cohesive end-to-end solutions.
- Experience with quality control and CAPEX related SAP processes.
- Strong English communication skills for working with international teams.
- Excellent collaboration skills and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
What We Do
JBT Marel is a leading global provider of integrated technology, equipment, software, and services for the food and beverage industry. Formed by the merger of JBT Corporation and Marel hf in January 2025, the company specializes in advanced automation and processing solutions to help customers optimize performance, ensure traceability, and increase yield across the global food chain.
