Overview
ERP Functional Specialist – United Kingdom
Job Title: ERP Functional Specialist (Commodity Procurement)
Location: Peterborough / Hybrid
Are you an ERP Functional Specialist who enjoys shaping how businesses operate, not just how systems are configured? Do you thrive on working closely with stakeholders to design practical, end-to-end processes that balance standardisation with real business needs across multiple countries? Are you a subject matter expert in procurement, both in raw materials and indirect purchasing?
Our Project Enterprise team at AB Agri is looking for an ERP Functional Specialist with a strong procurement background to play a key role in the design, delivery and adoption of our ERP solution. Working as part of a large, multi-workstream transformation programme, you’ll own the functional design for your area, partnering with business leaders and subject matter experts to move the organisation from current ways of working to a consistent, future-focused ERP landscape.
What you’ll be doing:
- Own the end-to-end functional design and to-be process definition for your ERP purchase to pay workstream, aligned to model company standards
- Lead functional workshops with Local Process Owners and Subject Matter Experts across UK and European business units
- Act as the functional authority for your area throughout design, build, testing and go-live phases
- Assess current processes against the standard ERP design, identifying gaps and agreeing MoSCoW priorities where variation is required
- Work closely with Solution Architects, Global Process Owners, data teams, business analysts and system integrators to ensure cross-functional alignment
- Take ownership of master data and reporting requirements for your functional area, ensuring decisions support enterprise-wide consistency
- Track progress, risks and dependencies for your workstream, contributing to programme reporting and stage-gate decisions
- Support business readiness, training and post-go-live sustainment to ensure successful adoption of new processes and ways of working
What you’ll bring:
- Solid ERP implementation experience, ideally across multiple business units or complex environments
- Strong functional knowledge in Procurement ERP processes
- Proven experience working on change or transformation programmes, influencing stakeholders to adopt standard processes
- Ability to analyse business processes, facilitate workshops and translate requirements into clear functional and design documentation
- Confident communicator with strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Analytical and structured thinker, comfortable balancing standardisation with justified local variation
- A proactive, curious mindset with the confidence to challenge, ask questions and propose better ways of working
- Experience with Infor M3 is advantageous but not essential; experience with SAP S/4 HANA or D365 is also highly valued
Location
Hybrid, a mix of office and homeworking. This role will be based at our Peterborough offices on the Lynchwood Business Park. The office has recently been renovated and along with a modern work environment has great public transport links, free onsite parking, free drink facilities, free lunch option each day and a great team culture. This role will require periods of travel both within the UK and Europe.
Where growth meets purpose
What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.
About the Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.
About us
We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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