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Purpose of Role
Reporting to the Supply Chain Platform Manager, the role is accountable for reviewing all changes for all the Global Supply Chain solutions implemented throughout Belron. This is done to minimise the risk associated with changes and ensuring that they are aligned with existing business process designs and the implementation of those processes at a technical level.
Is fully committed to the value of the Supply chain systems, understanding how they support the Belron business in day to day operations and the fundamental value of ensuring that processes are improved in a risk free way and deliver real benefits to the business.
To act as a technical gatekeeper ensuring that changes do not adversely impact the use of the supply chain applications. There is also a secondary cross functional requirement to be able to work with alongside Oracle Fusion Finance – elementary and basic understanding is sufficient.
The role will be Accountable for:
- Assessing all proposed changes to the supply chain applications and ensuring that the changes follow the relevant change process and that a clear assessment of how the change may impact business processes and what the risk of the change is.
- Providing Technical expertise and Input to the Design CoE when assessing changes
- Assessing changes and making recommendations to make specific changes standard changes
- Attend Services CAB meetings as required to provide input on supply chain changes
- Impact assess all non standard changes, providing feedback on regression as well as design quality
- Support release manager in assessing risks around changes to be applied to the production environment
As a member of the Global Technology group must be able to effectively communicate with senior members of the Supplier organisation, the Belron Business community as well as the IT organisation.
Responsibilities
- Actively support the general Change and Release management processes through provision of expertise in the application and the Belron business processes
- Assess changes as required and provide feedback on change documents and to governance forums
- Engage with process owners to facilitate understanding of technical changes in terms that allow them to provide feedback and approval as required
- Using their expertise work with the change and release manager propose additions to the list of standard changes for the supply chain applications
- To QA solutions prior to their delivery to production
- Provide guidance on a limited basis to 3rd parties supporting or developing the application (this is meant to minimise potential for errors rather than 3rd parities being dependent on the DA)
- Provide assistance to the 3rd party support organisation in the case of significant incidents or problems
- Support the MI process if required
- To interact with projects in order that they understand how the application is configured and managed in order that they can comply with the required ways of working and are able to deliver effectively avoiding risks (this applies after the TP project has completed)
Skills & Experiences Required
- Experience: 8 Years+ IT Development and or Configuration experience with recent experience in a large international organisation
- Strategic: Deep experience in Supply chain applications primarily Oracle ERP (Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Procurement, Inventory Management, Order Management, WMS) ideally including Koerber WMS and GAINS.
- Strategic: Deep experience in Supply chain operations from an IT perspective
- Ability to engage, build relationships with and influence senior leadership and key business stakeholders.
- Possesses good communication skills, with the ability to engage audiences at all levels..
- Ability to explain complex technical solutions in a way that business users can understand
- An understanding of IT General Controls and how these apply across the IT landscape and the processes in use to support the backoffice applications
Expert
- ORACLE ERP (Supply/Demand Planning, Procurement, Inventory Management, Order Management, and Warehouse Management WMS )
- Ideally Koerber WMS and GAINS stock planning
- Supply chain operations
- Change Management
- Release Management
- IT Risks and Compliance
- Communication skills – both written and verbal covering a wide range of stakeholder groups from management level to operational level
- Highly Resilient
- Strong self motivation, ability to work independently when required
- Bias for action
Advanced
- Facilitation skills
- Networking (across multiple functions, business units, external stakeholders)
- Ability to positively resolve conflicts
- Relevant industry understanding / experience in Supply Chain management
- Understanding of IT methodologies
Ability to speak and write in English Language is required
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This exciting role comes a very competitive salary and an extensive benefits package.
To All Applicants: Unfortunately, it is not going to be possible to respond to every application so if you have not heard back from us within 7 days, please assume that, unfortunately, your application has not been successful.
