Princes Liverpool is recruiting for a Solutions Architect (Sales & Distribution) to join our Head Office in the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool. This is a rare opportunity to join one of the UK's leading FMCG businesses.
Department / Location: IT – Supply Chain & Customer Fulfilment
Reports To: IT Delivery Manager – Supply Chain & Customer Fulfilment
Why Princes?
- Competitive Salary
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25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
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A day off for your Birthday
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Flexible Holiday Option - buy 5 days holiday
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14.5% Pension (5% Employee, 9.5% Employer) Opt-In
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Life Insurance Policy
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Private Medical Insurance
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Critical Illness Cover
1. Job Purpose
Responsible for the design, definition, and assurance of technology solutions supporting Sales & Distribution processes. Ensures SAP SD solutions deliver efficient, scalable, and integrated order-to-cash capabilities across order management, pricing, logistics execution and billing.
2. Dimensions
- Owns solution architecture across SAP SD and related fulfilment systems
- Covers Order-to-Cash including order entry, ATP, pricing, delivery and billing
- Operates across multiple business units and international operations
- Supports integration with Logistics, Planning and Finance (Accounts Receivable)
- Provides technical leadership across delivery teams
- No direct line management responsibility
3. Key Responsibilities
- Define end-to-end SAP SD solution architectures across Supply Chain & Customer Fulfilment domain
- Design solutions covering order management, ATP, pricing, deliveries and billing processes
- Ensure integration between SAP SD, logistics systems, EDI platforms and finance systems
- Produce architecture artefacts, designs and documentation
- Ensure alignment to enterprise architecture standards and governance
- Provide architectural assurance across delivery programmes and BAU changes
- Work with business stakeholders to translate sales and fulfilment requirements into solutions
- Support S/4HANA transformation and O2C process standardisation
- Identify opportunities for optimisation, automation and continuous improvement
- Support vendor selection, system evaluation and technical decision-making
4. Key Relationships
- IT Delivery Manager – Supply Chain & Customer Fulfilment
- Enterprise Architect
- Solution Architects (Planning, Logistics, Finance)
- Business Analysts and Developers
- Sales, Customer Services and Logistics stakeholders
- External vendors and system integrators
