Duties and responsibilities:
- Provide overall system and team management for the Merch ERP Product team
- Collaborate with the business to understand the business requirements and translate them into business and technology requirements that can be fulfilled by internal solutions
- Provide business and system process guidance for building out and evolving the Planning Product/Service
- Identify integration requirements between systems to achieve business needs
- Development/Maintenance and implementation of new products/systems based on business and technical requirements identified
- Conduct testing with users to ensure that the product meets the needs identified
- Conduct train the trainer and business demonstrations for senior users (managers and executives) if and when required
- Correspondence with the business and users surrounding implementation/rollout
- Collect process and report on data for the business
- Advise the business on new enhancements to existing products
- In depth knowledge of planning and the solutions within a retail environment to be able to carry out these tasks and further assist with support
- Ensuring the company security policy is implemented and maintained throughout the systems
Qualifications and experience:
- A relevant tertiary qualification
- Minimum of 8 10 years relevant experience including people and financial management experience
- Experience in Retail particularly in the planning disciplines
- Exposure to Retail Merchandise Planning and Buying business processes.
- Experience working on retail merchant solutions (e.g JDA PMM)
- Involvement in endtoend SDLC (including Agile & DevOps experience)
- A strong commitment to professional service delivery
- The ability to formulate and drive strategic changes to the IT landscape
- Planning and organizing ability
- The ability to be process oriented
- Innovative critical thinking and problem solving skills
- The ability to work independently and in a team oriented collaborative environment
- The ability to effectively prioritise and drive tasks in a high pressure environment
- Good communication and organisational skills with a strong ability to influence build relationships with and negotiate with colleagues and external partners
- Good attention to detail and levels of accuracy
- Knowledge and/or experience within Project Management /AGILE methodology