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Job title : Senior Specialist SCP Optimisation
Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town
Deadline : July 28, 2024
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Job Description
- The Senior Specialist: SCP Optimisation is responsible to identify, drive an implement operational and value chain improvement opportunities within the operational fresh supply chain planning environment. The role works alongside operational teams to identify opportunities to improve and standardise ways of work and also ensure the effective implementation of enhancements with lowest business risk. The role works with cross-functional teams and project manage identified projects to ensure delivery of solutions within agreed timelines.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Quantitative management or related field
- 2 – 3 years Supply Chain Planning Product Owner, Continuous Improvements and/or Project Management experience
Competencies
- Analysis
- Conceptual Thinking
- Judgement & Decision Making
- Drive
- Flexibility
- Networking & Liaison
- Organisational Awareness
- Influencing
Operational Experience:
- Have a strategic mind-set
- Understanding the business strategy and how it is executed within operational teams
- Analytical and Investigative nature
- Understand the impact of IT, Logistics, Commercial and other stakeholders’ strategy on the Supply Chain Planning operations
Project Management:
- Prioritise projects based on biggest impact/benefit on operational KPIs
- Manage project scope, deliverables stakeholders and timelines and ensure delivery of tasks within agreed due dates
- Measure project implementation and adoption rates
- Stay abreast of the latest developments and best practices in the industry and test new systems and new system functionality
- Manage the implementation of new developments and systems in the Supply Chain planning space
Business process analysis and optimisation:
- Focus on business process improvement and standardisation within the operational environment
- Design and create tools and processes that will improve operational execution and save time
- Work with the Supply Chain planning teams to define business requirements for tested, finalised and prioritised system or reporting solutions
- Design system and off system solutions for business processes
- Take ownership of automated system or reporting solution development, training and implementation
- Understand current reporting system and design or enhance reports as required by operational team and facilitate their development with BI
Manage IT Development Cycle:
- Align business requirements to business strategic drivers
- Prioritise business requirements and maintain a development roadmap signed off by operational team
- Communicate the business requirements to IT in the form of a business requirement document. (BRD)
- Preform user acceptance testing on IT solutions and sign off solutions on behalf of business
- Create a roll out or pilot plan for the implementation of the new development that included stakeholder communications, training and identified and managed risks to the business
- Post implementation report on the key success factors of the development
Stakeholder Engagement:
- Work alongside operational teams to define operational challenges and proposed improvements initiatives to address these
- Work alongside operational teams to create user friendly solutions that will improve operational execution and save time
- Ensure the effective implementation of enhancements, using methods with lowest business risk
CLOSING DATE: 5 JULY 2024
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