Passion for Data? And for Process Developments? Here you are then!

The Senior Business Process Developer (Logistics) acts as a bridge between business and IT, ensuring holistic system solutions based on strong alignment of content, process and people. This is achieved by transforming business requirements into detailed, system-based concepts as basis for technical implementation. The responsibilities include managing and delivering projects independently, ensuring an end-to-end perspective, highlighting cross functional dependencies, aligning business needs and target state across multiple stakeholders and documenting requirements in the form of Business Scope Statements (BSS), all while maintaining close collaboration with IT to ensure alignment on processes and data flows.

The role also involves managing and coaching resources within the project, managing testing of solutions, ensure quality of technical documentation, and handing over finalised processes and system solutions to data governance teams. Finally, the role requires deep understanding of core processes and topics to provide guidance to support teams on highly complex areas, design comprehensive Key/End user documentation and the design and orchestration of change management initiatives. With ad hoc guidance of senior stakeholders and managers the Senior Developer is ensuring high-quality outcomes aligned with strategy and company goals.

CONCEPT & PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

As a member of our team, you'll work on the development of new system solution designs by collecting, analysing and challenging business requirements. With your deep understanding of concepts, end to end processes and technical expertise, you provide an objective and holistic perspective to shape our processes and system landscape towards increased maturity levels. Focusing on data integration and efficiency you avoid isolated solutions and secure an end-to-end approach of all anticipated changes.

You'll act as a translator between business and IT, defining detailed requirements into system-based concepts, which can be used as basis for the technical implementation (BSS - Business Scope Statements). You are responsible for defining scope and independently structure these BSS, and ensure deliverables result in high quality requirements documentation. You’ll need to secure alignment with your management as well as with all cross-functional stakeholders on business and IT side. You'll also contribute to steering meetings with our senior management to get direction on open decisions and questions.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

In this role you'll act as business integration project manager you focus on delivering own projects with high complexity (i.e. scope, size, diverse stakeholders and/or high level of integration) and that carry a high level of ambiguity. Depending on the project’s complexity, urgency, and length, you'll define which project management approach and methodology to apply to achieve the project goals best.

You'll define, structure and manage a project plan and relevant work packages considering e2e process and data flow design. In alignment with our IT you’ll set up realistic project timelines considering resources and overall constraints. You'll track and document project progress and milestones in our project management tools, ensure deadlines are met and monitor implementation budgets.

Mostly independently, you’ll ideate, structure, prepare and run workshops throughout the different project stages, where you’ll be expected to challenge the status quo, facilitate discussions, as well as continuously identify and manage various complex project and process dependencies.

You’ll set the right priorities and communicate pro-actively with all involved parties, identify bottlenecks, find alternatives to remove roadblocks and de-escalate conflicts. In alignment with our portfolio management team, you'll ensure reporting and when needed, escalation to our senior management. For this reason, relevant experience with proven track record in project management, stakeholder management and strong communication skills are vital for this role.

TESTING, DOCUMENTATION & HANDOVER

You'll be responsible to ensure high quality and functional integration of all technical developments by ensuring detailed E2E solution testing by the project team. You will define a comprehensive test planning approach and manage the test execution: scope, progress tracking, bug fixing and backlog. Alignment with business stakeholder and orchestrating user acceptance testing (UAT) is also part of your responsibilities.

After successful testing, you'll introduce and hand over the new process to the data & process governance team. Therefore, you ensure the relevant detailed technical internal documentation is in place; for this you structure, write and quality assure documentation prepared by the project team (if applicable). Another task is the conception, creation and review of Global-/End-/Key User trainings and workshops as well as the preparation of related materials and documentation. To ensure system adoption, you’ll define and deploy appropriate communication plans across all user groups and stakeholders within the organisation.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT & CONTENT SUPPORT

You'll act as partner for both subsidiaries and HQ in topics related to your area of expertise, where you have deep understanding of the end-to-end processes and concepts as well as the strategy behind and their interconnection with other areas of the organisation. With your know-how of the tool landscape, data flows and integration, you’ll act as expert on demand to the 2nd level support in case of process and/or system-related issues and questions that carry a high level of complexity. With your wide expertise, you coach and support your colleagues towards their understanding of the bigger picture and E2E integration.

Furthermore, you’ll lead initiatives that aim to support subsidiaries in optimizing their cross functional processes and improving their data quality, such as taskforces, driving cross-functional discussions, challenging established processes and finding efficiencies. You’ll also be responsible to design and deploy change management initiatives.

5+ years of professional experience in the field of Logistics Management, proficiency in SAP TM preferred

Experience in Project Management with proven track record.

You can independently ideate, structure, prepare and run meetings & workshops in a project context.

You are able to lead process and conceptual discussions incorporating an end-to-end perspective.

Good communication & presentation skills with internal & external stakeholders across departments and hierarchy levels.

Strong technical skills gained within systems required, e.g SAP TM, S4/HANA

Deep understanding of Logistics processes, experience in FMCG industry is an advantage

You can handle high level of ambiguity and are able to structure the content and project deliverables for the desired outcome. You are able to understand complex end-to-end processes, identify risks and find solutions.

Highly experienced in gathering and translating business requirements into system integration concepts.

Good knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite as well as project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Workfront

High attention to detail with excellent organizational and analytical skills and the capability to handle multiple complex projects and stakeholders across different departments.

Creativity and ability to translate concepts into processes with attention to detail while focusing on the overall context.

Team player, self-motivated, goal-oriented, flexible and able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment

Due to legal reasons we are obliged to disclose the minimum salary according to the collective agreement for this position, which is EUR 2,760 gross per month. However, our attractive compensation package is based on market-oriented salaries and is therefore significantly above the stated minimum salary.

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