Position Summary:
In a fast and frequently changing retail environment, we are searching for a Manager IT Logistics to support business growth and provide state of the art systems & applications. This candidate has a technical and managerial experience in supply chain logistics system and applications implementation. Candidate will be operational in all phases of project implementation, continuous improvement and support for logistics business operations.
Responsibilities:
• Finalize the business requirements and convert those into IT concept and implement in logistics systems such as SAP S4 EWM / WM LES using SAP tools at appropriate level of quality, and architectural consistency.
• Drive the overall end-end testing for the project implementation test cycle
• Assist with testing activities including, but not limited to, test plan creation, test case refinement and execution
• Manage and execute all types of testing including unit, performance, functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance test
• Define business continuity plan, manage cutovers, provide go live support and hyper care for projects and operational improvements
• Perform and manage system application support for both our own and 3PL warehouses for NCSA region
• Act as change coordinator to ensure business standard change and release management processes followed for all system changes
• Mentors and develops junior team members within EWM modules on technical/process areas
• Partner with regional business and global IT teams(including external vendors) to implement IT solutions.
Qualifications:
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent required (Nice to have MBA Degree or Project Management certification)
• 5+ years business experience implementing/supporting/configuring and customizing business solutions using SAP EWM and/or SAP WM-LES (preferred in the retail or consumer goods industry).
• 2+ year experience as an SAP system lead managing work packages of small teams
• Experience with planning and leading complex IT implementation for logistics application transformation projects including testing of ERP and non-ERP system, middleware integration components, 3rd party supply chain applications and integrated solutions aligned with the project scope.
• Substantial experience with test management including test planning, execution, managing and driving the test plan using available tools
• Hands-on experience tracking defects, creating metrics and writing status reports on the testing process
• Experience supporting SAP application using standard methodologies like ITIL
• Experience working with SAP upgrade / migration projects using greenfield/brownfield approaches
• Knowledge of SAP Solution Manager, Azure DevOps, Jira and Tosca Test Automation tools
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the proven ability to communicate with all levels
• Outstanding organizational skills with demonstrated ability to prioritize workload and attention to details
Barry Graff