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 se