Change Business Partner - MRP

Overview
Change Business Partner - MRP

Location: US Remote with travels

Employment: 12 month project based role
Role Overview:

The Change Business Partner will lead the people-side implementation of strategic transformation across manufacturing operations. This includes driving the adoption of new systems, processes, and behaviours that enhance efficiency, safety, and growth. A key focus will be supporting the deployment and behavioural integration of standard costing across manufacturing sites, ensuring consistency in cost control, performance tracking, and margin visibility. The role requires a strong understanding of manufacturing, ERP (notably Microsoft D365), and change facilitation to support both people and site-level transitions.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:

- Lead and support change initiatives linked to process improvements and ERP projects, with a particular focus on standard costing.

- Partner with finance, operations, and systems teams to make sure costing methods are understood, applied consistently, and support effective cost control.

- Help operational leaders move from legacy costing approaches to standardised cost models, explaining the impact on reporting, performance measurement, and profitability.

- Work with local teams to build understanding of how standard costs are created and maintained, including bill of materials (BOM) accuracy, labour and machine rates, and overhead allocation.

- Deliver training and capability-building activities that strengthen cost awareness and accountability across production and planning teams.

- Act as the link between Global Process Owners, finance teams, and manufacturing sites, turning costing policy into practical day-to-day processes within D365.

- Support the accuracy and integrity of costing data by identifying gaps in processes, systems, and reporting, and helping teams put the right controls in place.

- Drive adoption of new ways of working, making sure standard costing becomes embedded in decision-making rather than simply a finance exercise.

Qualifications
Requirements:

- Experience delivering change management within an industrial or manufacturing environment.

- Understands and leads for the to-be processes and ways of working.

- Understanding and advocating good practices in principle and in detail for a range of topics especially standard costing (cost build-up, cost drivers, variance analysis, cost updates) and margin management, but also MRP, planning, and warehousing.

- Experience supporting or deploying standard costing frameworks within ERP systems (especially Microsoft D365), including training, data validation, and cost centre alignment.

- Ability to engage both finance and non-finance teams in understanding the operational impact of cost changes, cost performance, and product profitability.

- Proven ability to build relationships and influence frontline teams, middle management, and senior leaders.

- Strong communication and facilitation skills, particularly in operational and technical contexts.

- Experience with ERP systems (JD Edwards, Microsoft D365) is a strong advantage.

- Comfortable working at different levels of the organisation.

- Flexible to adapt to the changing business needs of the projects.

- Serves as best practice/quality resource within Standard costing and ERP Transformations.

Qualifications and Behaviours:

- Aptitude to learn and adapt, seeing change opportunities and encouraging others to seek positive change.

- Change Management or Lean Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or higher) is an advantage.

- Minimum 5 years of experience in finance management or transformation, or multi-site general management roles within manufacturing or industrial sectors.

Morgan Advanced Materials is an EEO/AA/M/W/D/V

Morgan Advanced Materials is a business rich in history and innovation. Founded in the UK in 1856, we have grown into a global organisation with 70 sites in 18 countries. Our model to serve our customers where they need us has led to a diversified product range using our unparalleled expertise in ceramic and carbon materials, which we exploit to solve difficult problems for our customers across a diverse range of markets.

We are a purpose driven organisation. Our purpose is to use advanced materials to make the world more sustainable and to improve the quality of life. We deliver on that purpose through the products that we make, and the way that we make them.

We help our customers push the limits of their processes and products to meet the demanding requirements they face, from higher process temperatures to higher product performance to increasing miniaturisation.

Key Figures: Revenue £1,114.7m (2023), ~8,500 employees, manufacturing in 20+ countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK. Listed on London Stock Exchange; Member of the FTSE 250 Index.

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