The main responsibilities of this position include:
1. Collaborate and interact with functional business areas to gather requirements
2. Facilitate workshops between multiple stakeholders to gather information
3. Project manage Strategic projects
4. Continuous communication with stakeholders to either keep them updated on project progress or to highlight risk or follow-up on outstanding items
5. Write user-stories or business requirement specifications
6. Manage the critical path and timelines of deliverables
7. Compile test packs where needed and support it with testing
8. Manage pilots, rollouts, and training of projects
Requirements
Applicants for the position will need to meet the following minimum requirements:
1. Grade 12 Certificate/Matric
2. A relevant Degree and or Higher National Diploma (Information Technology, Computer Science, System Design, Management Science, Business studies, Information Systems, Business yst)
3. Have a minimum of 5 years experience in Apparel Retail (Business area specific / Systems)
4. Knowledge of and exposure to:
a. Business process exposure/understanding (Area specific)
b. Process optimizing/improvement
c. Elicitation and doenting BRS/BRD
d. Working knowledge of Agile odology
e. Setup, management, and of testing
f. Project Management
g. Training/Change management
h. Systems/Business support for BAU
i. System Architecture understanding (area specific integration environment/technical competency)
j. Unified Modeling Language (UML High-level context diagram, Product Breakdown Structure, System Architecture diagram, Flow Chart, Business Workflow diagram, Business Process Model and Notation, Use Case diagram, Use Case Narrative)
We are looking for an individual who:
1. Displays knowledge of waterfall and Agile working odologies and principles.
2. Thorough understanding of implementing and maintaining systems/services/applications.
3. Has knowledge of PMBOK and BABOK management principles
4. Ability to compile quantitative and or qualitative information/reporting
5. MS Suite Intermediate - Advanced user
6. Understanding of System integration (environment/area specific)
7. Effective management of Personal Data Protection POPIA
8. Cloud based (SaaS) software applications that can enable services.
9. Possess planning, ytical, and critical thinking ss
10. ExceptionalEffectively communication ss es both verbally and written
11. Displays good presentation and facilitation ss
12. Displays high level of energy
13. Can work well individually and in a team
14. Is a self-starter and readily takes responsibility
Requirements Knowledge required: o An understanding of retail metrics and KPI s o An understanding of retail business systems. o Full proficiency in Microsoft products (Office 365) o Knowledge of Business Intelligence visualisation practices. o Experience in creating visualisations in PowerBI. Ss required: o Managing multiple tasks/projects o Managing external parties and stakeholders o Time management ss o Problem solving o ytical ss o Detail orientated o Work independently and in a team environment o Interpretation of business ytical needs into specification doents o Ability to interpret business data and propose actions. o To be able to identify trends in data o To be able to compile visualizations and reports that can reflect relevant business KPI s. o To be able to incorporate external data/events with internal data to arrive at conclusions o To be able to communicate across all functional areas and hierarchical layers. o Customer and service orientation. QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: o Bachelors degree in Information Systems or similar Preferred: o Post-graduate qualification in Data & ytics, Information Systems or similar o Certification in PowerBI EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Essential o 2-3 years experience in, reporting, data extraction (Google Cloud Platform) and data ysis o 2-3 years report writing experience, as well as experience in preparing statistics and data visualisations relevant to the business function o 2-3 years experience in a similar role, with PowerBI Preferred: o Have a general understanding of data architectures and Google Cloud technology o Have a general understanding of SQL or similar coding/scripting techniques. o Retail environment business environment