SA Supply Chain IT Lead - Paarl at PepsiCo

Responsibilities

• Establishes relationships with senior business leadership in the Supply Chain functions to shape digitalisation demand.
• Understand the H1-H3 road map for the SA market’s Supply Chain function and map it to the 5-year IT strategic plan for the AMESA Sector.
• Actively engage the function and recommend technology solutions to meet the business processes requirements.
• Be the first point of contact for business on new initiative in terms of being consultant to business for automation.
• Translate business direction in firm action points and align with IT strategy at market and sector level.
• This includes shaping the requirements, proposal creation, business alignment on funding, owning the product end to end for business delivery, adoption and value realization by working with various stakeholders.
• Identify PepsiCo Global platforms and IT assess and promote leverage these digital technologies in order to increased productivity or provide new capabilities for the business.
• Improve user capability through the delivery/coordination of training programs related to technology adoption.
• Manage cross functional business partner relationships on project teams to deliver value-adding solutions to the business.
• Manage E2E delivery of the projects/initiatives as covered by the AOP (annual operating plan).
• Alignment with DevSecOps team for overall delivery of business applications & AOP priorities.
• This role also includes working with internal IT team including InfoSec, Enterprise Architect, Data& Digital, Go To Market/Commercial and CTO teams during the various phases of the project to ensure the deliverables are met per bussiness expectation.
• Seek continuous improvement on business solutions and processes based on effective management of incidents and problems within the application stack.
• Come up with continues improvement agenda for reducing the issues and increase business value realization from IT automation.
• Ensure compliance with IT control standards.
• Manages Resource planning for the portfolio and ensures the right resources are assigned to the project.

Qualifications

Education

• University degree with IT background

Experience

• 10-12 years experience in core IT field
• Multinational FMCG corporate experience in similar role preferred
• Supply Chain experience will be an advantage in the fields of Warehouse Management, Planning and Transportation solutions
• Strong Business Relationship Experience, comfortably and confidently interacting with senior leadership
• Fundamental understanding of sustainability in the SC function will be an advantage