IT Product Manager - Digital Manufacturing

About Us

The Marzetti Company (Nasdaq: MZTI) manufactures and sells specialty food products

Our retail brands include Marzetti® dressings and dips, New York Bakery™ garlic breads, and Sister Schubert’s® dinner rolls, in addition to exclusive license agreements for Olive Garden® dressings, Chick-fil-A® sauces and dressings, Buffalo Wild Wings® sauces, Arby’s® sauces, Subway® sauces, and Texas Roadhouse® steak sauces and frozen rolls

Our foodservice business supplies sauces, dressings, breads, and pasta to many of the top restaurant chains in the United States.

At Marzetti, our mission is to make every meal better through high-quality, flavorful food

Led by our purpose, to nourish growth with all that we do, our team members are dedicated to creating great tasting food and cultivating deep and lasting relationships.

Overview

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**We are not able to provide immigration sponsorship for this role, including OPT 

***We are prioritzing candidates in Ohio at this time

 

With the stabilization of our SAP S/4HANA RISE and Cloud First transformation, The Marzetti Company has entered a new phase—shifting from platform implementation to ongoing business transformation

Our intentionally nimble technical landscape is maintained, improved, and continuously optimized through the capabilities of a centralized Business Transformation team within the Information Technology (IT) department; the Center of Excellence (COE) is a core component of this group

The COE team’s role is to understand business capability needs, translate them into prioritized roadmaps, and ensure processes, data, and organizational readiness practices are fit for purpose to maximize business value from our enterprise platforms.   

 

The Product Manager – Digital Manufacturing serves as the product owner for digital manufacturing capabilities across Integrated Planning and Supply Chain Operations within The Marzetti Company

This role partners closely with various Supply Chain stakeholders to translate operational needs into clear, prioritized product backlogs that drive tangible business value.   The Product Manager is accountable for ensuring digital manufacturing capabilities deliver measurable improvements in planning accuracy and operational efficiency, while data and system integrations enable clear, transparent visibility into performance across planning and execution. 

 

Operating at the intersection of people, process, data, and enterprise systems, the Product Manager is responsible for day-to-day product ownership activities including intake triage, backlog refinement, roadmap contribution, and value realization

The role focuses on ensuring planning and operational execution capabilities are well-defined, well-integrated, and aligned with enterprise standards and Supply Chain priorities

While this role does not directly own Manufacturing Execution Systems or shop floor control applications, it partners with Supply Chain and Manufacturing Technology leaders to ensure strategic alignment between platforms, data flows, and integration patterns across all manufacturing facilities

The Product Manager helps ensure that digital transformation in the manufacturing space meets business needs and scales with Marzetti. 

 

This role includes direct people leadership responsibility for one to two Senior Analysts and works closely with other Product Owners, IT Solution Owners, Data & Analytics, Organizational Change Management (OCM), and Continuous Improvement (CI) partners to ensure solutions are practical, scalable, and effectively adopted by the business. 

Responsibilities

• Leadership & Team Development 

• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and prioritization guidance to one or more assigned Senior Analysts, ensuring alignment to product priorities and delivery expectations. 

• Set clear performance expectations, create accountability with direct reports for delivery quality and timelines, and ensure transparent progress tracking. 

• Support professional development of team members through coaching, feedback, and skill-building opportunities. 
   

• Product Ownership & Delivery 

• Own the Integrated Planning and Supply Chain Operations product – accountable for ensuring backlog is clearly defined, prioritized, and managed through intake into delivery on schedule for enhancements, projects, and operational improvements. 

• Partner with Supply Chain stakeholders to understand business challenges, opportunities, and priorities, translating needs into clear use cases and business

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