Job Description
The Supply Chain & Logistics Project Manager is responsible for strategic planning, defining project approaches and methodology, producing executive status reports, issue and risk management, managing overall schedule and interdependencies, conducting after action analysis and setting consistent standards and processes.
Application Management
• Responsible for the overall support of the Supply Chain & Logistics operations, and the key point of contact for the SC&L teams.
• Act as key point of contact for business teams in relation to SC&L Applications
• Own monitoring and production support of ERP (SAP + JDEOW), warehouse management system, and all integration (EAI/ETL/Control M)
• Deeply knowledgeable on solution architecture topics in a retail environment, and able to investigate a broad range of functional and technical topics
• Proficient (or a least comfortable) with programming languages and development methodologies
• Contributor to application management planning by incorporating user experiences and best practices to propose future enhancements
• Provide weekly status reports on all activities
• Participate in frequent touch points with SC&L to ensure application management service level agreements are being met
• Define and apply security policies related to the applications in the Supply Chain scope
Project Management
• Manage new projects, both large and small, within the SC&L and Manufacturing business area
• Create and maintain project plans for Supply Chain projects such as Software customizations, upgrades, implementation of new modules, new business functions
• Enforce proper testing methodology & develop tests scripts in partnership with key business users
• Prepare User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scenarios with the business; organize and coordinate UAT to ensure all scenarios are conducted and results properly documented
• Define and apply security policies related to these applications
• Participate in functional and integration testing
Business Analysis
• Define SC&L objectives for IS&T department working in conjunction with CIO, CTO, Business Solutions Director and Front Office Manager, and then confirm decisions with the Central/Zone counterparts.
• Act as an internal consultant by partnering with department heads and key users to define project scope and requirements
• Document business processes and associated IT processes
• Work with Central Solutions teams to validate scope and review priorities
• Act as subject matter expert regarding all Supply Chain initiatives
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience and expertise with SAP MM/SD required
• 2+ years experience in Supply Chain & Logistics applications
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• Ability to manage several projects simultaneously and assess priorities
• Overall Knowledge of Supply Chain and Logistics processes
• Experience with integration tools
• Experience with a WMS
• 5 years of progressively increasing responsibilities in the IT industry
• Bachelor degree or equivalent in computer science related field required
Compensatoin includes, Base, Bonus, 401k, Paid Time Off, Employee Discounts
