GDT Supply Chain Applications Services Manager (Durban North) at Aspen Pharma Group

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• Actively maintains recognized expert level knowledge in two or more identifiable business application specialisms. 
• Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area(s) but able to apply their specialism using a systems and design thinking approach. 
• Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organizational objectives.
• Leads the development of application solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in application architecture development.
• Within a change programme, leads the preparation of technical plans and, in liaison with business assurance and project staff, ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available.
• Provides advice on technical aspects of solution development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
• Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate software design methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
• Specifies and designs large or complex software components. Undertakes impact analysis on major design options, makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks.
• Specifies prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision making.
• Evaluates the quality of others' systems designs to ensure adherence to standards and identifies corrective action, if needed.
• Ensures that the system design balances functional, quality, security and systems management requirements.
• Contributes to development of organizational software design and architecture policies and standards.
• Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate tools, techniques and processes (including automation and continuous integration) to create a robust integration framework.
• Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design.
• Monitors and reports on the results of each integration and build.
• Designs and builds integration components and interfaces.
• Contributes to the overall design of the service and the definition of criteria for product and component selection.
• Contributes to development of systems integration policies, standards and tools.
• Drafts and maintains procedures and documentation for applications support.
• Manages application enhancements to improve business performance. 
• Advises on application security, licensing, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery needs. 
• Ensures that all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Educational qualifications & experience

• Matric / Grade 12.
• B.Com / BSc Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience .
• Current industry certification in architecture (i.e., TOGAF, Zachman, etc.).
• Operational Management Methodology (i.e., ITIL, COBIT, SDLC, DevOps, Agile).
• 10+ years’ experience of managing relationships with internal business customers and supply chain business processes.

Specific experience, knowledge and registrations 

• Experience and sound knowledge of Application development and Implementation/Release management, implementation and improvement practices.
• ERP (SAP), IBP, JustEnough, Kinaxis or similar Supply Chain Management Systems.
• Business Applications – Capability based model (MIS, SCM, etc).
• 10+ years’ experience managing application management and automation in a large complex/matrix global organisation.

Work-specific skills & exposure

• 10+ years’ experience leading teams, internal and 3rd parties in a multivendor approach.