Job Description

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 end-to-end 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