City: South Africa - Johannesburg

Function: Team Lead, Warehouse and Distribution

Job Type: Contract

Essential Responsibilities:

• Manage, co-ordinate and deliver all agreed Warehouse and Distribution integrations to current ERP environment in line with the JV timelines.
• Manage, co-ordinate and deliver other integrations as agreed with the Project Manager to ERP in line with the JV timelines.
• Develop integration project plans specifying goals, deliverables, resources, scheduling.
• Ensure all risk and issues associated with the agreed integrations are recorded and managed in the project RAID log in a timely manner, according to programme standards.
• Ensure all risks and issues are escalated in a timely manner, along escalation paths defined by the programme.
• Manage complex stakeholder environment
• Follow the project team methodologies, policies and procedures.
• Track, monitor and report integrations’ progress, costs, and resources to the Project Manager in line with required reporting schedules
• Manage and coordinate project related third party relationships in partnership with Business relationship manager where applicable (eg Customer, vendors, Integration partners etc)
• Work with customers and IT teams to facilitate smooth Integration testing and User acceptance testing
• Author the required documents according to Client’ s ITMS requirements
• Work with Application Services teams to effectively transition the developments into steady state.

• Understand ICA Governance & WoW
• Attend the required trainings, workshops as appropriate
• Provide support in-market when required across key phases of the implementation lifecycle e.g. User Acceptance Testing.
• Successfully connect W&D 3rd parties to ERP with minimal impact to the customers and within the JV timelines
• Successfully connect other integrations as agreed, with ERP with minimal impact to the customers / vendors and within the JV timelines
• Ensure all required documents have been approved
• Ensure the service is ready to be transitioned to steady state support

Qualifications/Requirements:

• A Bachelor Degree in Project Management, Logistics or Related Engineering/IT Discipline.
• Comprehensive experience in Electronic Data Interchange related to Warehousing and Distribution processes
• Comprehensive understanding of XML and data mapping processes
• Comprehensive understanding of electronic message routing and message transformation
• Experience in Project management , including delivery of complex technical IT projects and services
• Demonstrated matrix management skills and ability to work effectively in cross functional teams
• Understanding of client’ s processes related to IT projects
• Proven experience in stakeholder management particularly with customers and third parties
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently, remotely and across several geographies.
• Fluent in English language skills (verbal and written)