Business Analyst - Sandton at JD Group

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Industrial Engineering or a related field.
• 4-7 years’ experience as a Business Analyst in the same environment.
• Experience in Agile methodologies is advantageous.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify potential risks / improvements and escalate where required
• Plan and develop logical models to solve identified business problems / risks / optimisation
• Manage the execution of projects within Supply Chain
• Execute strategy & action plans according to the business needs
• Manage Customer centricity
• Effective self-management and teamwork

Responsibilities - Summary

• Initiate and execute Project Establishment & Initiation Activities
• Gather and document business requirements
• Analyse and document the changes required in system architecture
• Ensure that the solution is tested and validated against the business requirements
• Implement the solution and conduct a handover to operations
• Manage the project through its lifecycle
• Risk and Issue logging. This includes quantifying the risks, Identifying an owner of that Risk and if they occur and also driving the close out of the Risks and Issues that are logged.
• Decision logging - In many sessions when a critical decision arises, to log this and to drive the process to get the decision made and document the decision outcome.
• When any actions are identified in sessions, these are minuted and assigned to a particular individual with a commitment date and then driving on following up on these until they are closed.
• Together with the PM's for our service providers, prepare the steerco pack that include details of point 1 and 2, as well as communicating deliverables completed as well as committed too.
• With the Product owner, define the implementation date of the project and plan the deliverable accordingly. Project Plan should not be limited to development and product deliverable but also implementation plan.
• Driving the quote approval and purchase order process where required.

Job Competencies:

• Knowledge and application of best practice
• Knowledge of business process improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma)
• Experience with project management tools and techniques
• Basic SQL experience
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Project management
• Risk management
• Facilitation skills
• Report writing
• Negotiation skills
• Analytical skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Strong Investigation skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• MS Office proficiency
• Business acumen
• Analysis and Judgement
• Networking
• Personal Resilience
• Energy and Drive
• Customer orientation
• Influencing others
• Leading change
• Problem solving
• Planning and prioritising
• Investigative orientation
• Assertiveness
• Excellence orientation