Business Analyst – Supply Chain Management Job Placement – Zoe Recruitment
Job Title: Business Analyst – Supply Chain Management
Organisation: Zoe Recruitment
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Salary Range: UGX 3,000,000 /=
About US:
Zoe Recruitment is an HR consultancy company that exists to contribute to the transformation of productivity and work ethic, by linking talent to business/organizations, and placing people right. At Zoe we believe this then forms the foundation for sustainable business and on a larger scale, economic growth. Zoe would like to recruit for a valuable client, a coffee business with an international franchise.
Job Summary: The Business Analyst – Supply Chain Management will support Sucafina East African companies through business process mapping, design and standardization. The incumbent will document current end-to-end business processes in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya & Tanzania. Provide analysis and comparison between companies. Map performance against industry ‘best practices’. Gather future business requirements in conjunction with profit centre managers and heads of departments. Provide Supply Chain Management expertise to design business processes and future IT business solutions in integration with origination processes, primary processing, exports, sales, costing and financial functionalities. Assist the organization in becoming more process-driven and lean.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Gathering, analyzing and documenting business processes and business requirements based on current and future state practices
- Conducting validation sessions with heads of departments and subject matter experts to ensure requirements are appropriately captured
- Acquiring approval for business requirement documents
- Identifying and addressing issues and gaps in future business requirements
- Facilitating business process design and driving process improvements with subject matter experts
- Driving standardization and process and solution commonality across multiple Profit Centres
- Assisting in defining project schedule by providing accurate task duration estimates
- Providing expertise and best practices in Supply Chain Management
- Communicating between business and future project technical resources to ensure that business requirements are interpreted correctly into system requirements
- Being a change agent in the organization
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a relevant degree level qualification
- Six sigma certification
- Skilled in negotiating, decision making and conflict resolution processes within a large group and multi-cultural environment
- Deep knowledge of business analysis modeling techniques and methods
- Expert in process mapping, documentation, analysis, and redesign skills
- Excellent meeting facilitation skills (including virtual meetings)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to travel for a significant proportion of the project
- Experience with commodity supply chain management
- Understanding of purchasing and inventory related financial concepts
- Understanding of software development lifecycle and deliverables in each of its phases
- Previous participation in ERP or large systems implementations, preferably in BA role with emphasis on supply chain.
- Experience of inventory, production and warehouse chain management
- Experience of internal controls in supply chain management
- Experience in systems implementations
- Knowledge of agricultural commodities industry
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should apply online by clicking on the title link below.
Deadline: 28th March 2018
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